Annual Conference
Moving Towards the Millennium: New Strategies for Museums
Thursday, July 9 & Friday, July 10, 1998 Pre-Conference Workshop,
Wednesday, July 8 Post-Conference Workshop, Saturday, July 11 San
Francisco, CA
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The California Association of Museums is happy to invite you to
participate in its 1998 Annual Conference in San Francisco.
Moving Towards the Millennium: New Strategies for Museums is the theme of
this year's conference, an ideal focus for our host city, a city with an
abundance of museums and cultural organizations. In addition to enjoying
the majestic landmarks and views, conference delegates will visit the Ansel
Adams Center for Photography, California Academy of Sciences, California
Historical Society, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Cartoon Art
Museum, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Museum Italo Americano, San
Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, San Francisco
Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Mexican
Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
This year's conference will provide museum professionals with the
opportunity to encounter and explore timely and important issues facing
museums in California while networking with colleagues from across the
state. In answer to many of your requests, the conference has expanded to
include the following components:
- Concurrent sessions with diversified formats including panels, keynote
presentations, resource sessions, hands-on work sessions, and a town hall.
- Special track which will address topics especially pertinent for small-
to mid-sized museums, highlighted in the enclosed conference schedule
- Full-day pre-conference workshop, New Visions Program A Process for
Reinventing Your Museum for the Next Millennium and Post-Conference
Workshop, Lighting for Museums, co-sponsored by the National Association of
Museum Exhibitions (NAME).
- Director's luncheon featuring keynote address by Edward H. Able, Jr., CEO
& President of the American Association of Museums
- A Town Hall session allowing time for open networking and information
exchange
- Silent Auction and Exhibitor Passport drawing where conferees can win
exciting trips and free conference registration
HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday, July 8 Pre-Conference Workshop New Visions Program: A Process
for Reinventing Your Museum for the Next Millennium
Opening Reception at Fort Mason: The Mexican Museum, Museo Italo Americano,
S.F. African American Historical & Cultural Society, S.F. Craft & Folk Art
Museum, S.F. Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery
Thursday, July 9 Keynote Speaker: Barry Munitz, President & CEO, The J.
Paul Getty Trust Presentation of 1998 Cammy Award Exhibit Hall Silent
Auction Exhibit Hall Passport Drawing Directors Luncheon Evening in the
Park progressive dinner at the California Academy of Sciences and the M.H.
de Young Memorial Museum
Friday, July 10 Full day at SFMOMA Visits to Yerba Buena museums and
cultural centers: Ansel Adams Center for Photography, California Historical
Society, Cartoon Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Twilight
Closing Reception at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Saturday, July 11 Post-Conference Workshop Lighting for Museums
REGISTRATION FEES
Nonmembers who pre-register for general conference will receive a $35
discount toward a one-year membership in CAM, effective immediately, when
they complete the membership form below and submit it with registration
form.
Before June 15: Pre-Conference Workshop $75 for members and nonmembers
General Conference $250 for CAM members $285 for nonmembers
Post-Conference Workshop $45 for CAM or NAME members/$70 nonmembers
After June 15: Pre-Conference Workshop No change in Fee
General Conference $285 for CAM members $320 for nonmembers
Post-Conference Workshop No change in Fee
Single Day Passes: July 9* or July 10 $175 for CAM members $190 for nonmembers
Single day passes are not available after June 15. * Fee does not include
dinner on July 9.
Please note that registration fees for the general conference include
sessions, ground transportation from conference hotel to activities (except
opening reception), two breakfasts, two lunches, and a closing reception.
Thursday progressive dinner at the California Academy of Sciences and M.H.
de Young Memorial Museum is additional. Student rates of $125 are available
for full-time students with valid identification. Student rates do not
include any meals. Pre-Conference Workshop fee includes one lunch. Guests
are welcome to partake in the meals and evening events for an additional
fee.
CONTRIBUTORS
Autry Museum of Western Heritage Butterfield & Butterfield California
Academy of Sciences California Historical Society Charles H. Bentz
Associates, Inc. Curatorial Assistance J. Paul Getty Museum Henderson
Phillips Fine Arts Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: California Palace of
the Legion of Honor, and M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Fine Arts Risk
Management LORD Cultural Resources Marquand Books Museo Italo Americano
Phase One QM2 San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural
Society San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art SPARKS Exhibits Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History San
Diego Natural History Museum Southwest Museum The Mexican Museum Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts
PROGRAM
Pre-Conference Workshop Wednesday, July 8, 1998 12:00 noon - 4:00 PM
Radisson Miyako Hotel, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco
New Visions Program: A Process for Reinventing Your Museum For the Next
Millennium
Join your colleagues to be part of the New Visions Program (TM) -- is a
comprehensive and systematic process for reinventing museums. Workshop
participants will focus on the first three phases of the process, learning
concepts and skills to take back to their respective institutions.
Directors, senior staff, and trustees are encouraged to attend as a team.
Free follow up meetings will be scheduled to continue coaching museums
through the program. Each phase is designed to integrate with the others.
The seven phases are: 1. LEARNING TO LEARN Participants will be coached in
developing dialogue that expands common ground, fosters new solutions, and
builds the highest levels of commitment to action.
2. WHERE ARE WE NOW? Includes assessments of the museum's current situation
with external and internal environments, as well as the museum's readiness
to change. This phase culminates with the creation of a statement of Why
the Museum Should Change. It uses a process which typically builds 100%
commitment from board, staff and volunteers.
3. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE? Based on current trends and factors, a
picture of the future environment in which the museum will exist is
created. The elements of this picture are analyzed and prioritized.
4. WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO? This is a rigorous visioning process which
uncovers the museum's core purpose and central values. It also establishes
a vivid description of the desired future for the museum.
5. HOW WILL WE GET THERE? Strategy formulation, traditional planning,
budgeting, structure of the board and staff, and systems for measuring
process are designed.
6. SOLVING PROBLEMS AND IMPROVING WORK FLOW A structure and system for
bringing people together to solve problems and improve work flow,
communication and coordination.
7. IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW THROUGH Designing the structure and system to
support the process of follow through.
Facilitator: Will Phillips, President of QM2 (Quality Management for
Quality Museums). QM2 offers organizational development and management
skills to museums. Mr. Phillips lectures nationwide and frequently consults
with individual museums. He recently worked with the American Association
of Museums to implement the New Visions process in museums across the
country. Post-Conference Workshop
Saturday, July 11, 1998 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific Energy Center 851 Howard
Street San Francisco, CA (between 4th and 5th Streets with parking
available directly across the street)
Lighting for Museums
The National Association of Museum Exhibitions (NAME), in conjunction with
CAM, is co-sponsoring this workshop on museum lighting to be held at the
Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco. The all-day workshop is divided in
two parts:
Introduction to Lighting 9:00 - 11:00 AM An invaluable introduction to the
types and characteristics of light presented by staff of the Pacific Energy
Center, an educational facility of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Lunch Break (on your own)
Museum Lighting: Issues and Lighting Types 1:00 - 4:00 PM This segment
takes a more indepth look at museum lighting with an emphasis on lighting
types suitable for use in exhibition spaces. Presented by Tom Toland and
Brian Liebel of AfterImage, a Bay Area firm specializing in electrical
engineering, lighting design, lighting education, and related exhibitry.
Space is limited to 40 participants, so register early.
For further information, call Jeff Northam, NAME Coordinator for N.
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Opening Reception Wednesday, July 8, 1998 5:00 - 7:00 PM Fort Mason
Museums and Cultural Centers: The Mexican Museum, Museo Italo Americano,
San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society, San Francisco
Craft & Folk Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental
Gallery
Join your CAM colleagues for light refreshments at five of San Francisco's
outstanding museums and cultural centers located in Fort Mason, a national
historic landmark in the Marina neighborhood. On view at The Mexican Museum
will be Common Threads: Textiles of the Americas, an exhibition tracing the
social, economic and artistic importance of weaving in the Americas. In
celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Museo Italo Americano will have
two photographic exhibitions entitled The Italian Journey and The New
Immigrants. SFCAFAM will be showing a retrospective of the work of
enamelist June Schwarcz, Forty Years/Forty Pieces, and finally the SFMOMA
Rental gallery offers the sculpture of three Bay Area contemporary artists.
GENERAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, July 9 Radisson Miyako Hotel
Session Formats: (K) Keynote, (P) Panel, (RS) Resource Session, (H)
Hands-On, (T) Town Hall
The sessions marked with an * have been designated as especially pertinent
to small and medium sized museums.
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 5:00 Exhibit Hall The Exhibit Hall offers a great resource for
professional products and services and is a great way to find out what's
new from the commercial world. Take time to chat with exhibitors and
discuss your museum's goals. Use your "Exhibitor Passport" and become
eligible for a great give-away at the Thursday dinner program.
9:00 - 9:15 Introductory Remarks William Lee, CAM President, Director, Los
Angeles Maritime Museum
9:15 - 10:00 Presentation of 1998 CAMMY Award
John Walsh, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, will accept the 1998
CAMMY Award on behalf of the Museum for its outstanding role of leadership
in the museum community. Dr. Walsh has been director of the museum since
1983 and was actively involved in creating the "museum for a new century",
the new J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center.
Keynote Address (K) Barry Munitz, President & CEO, The J. Paul Getty Trust
Sponsored by Charles H. Bentz Associates, Inc.
CAM is honored to have national leader Barry Munitz, President & CEO of the
J. Paul Getty Trust as its featured speaker. Recently appointed to his
position at the Getty Trust, Dr. Munitz oversees the private foundation and
its institutes including the Getty Research Institute for the History of
Art and the Humanities, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty
Information Institute, the Getty Education Institute, the Getty Leadership
Institute for Museum Management, and the Getty Grant Program. Drawing from
his extensive leadership experience in higher education, Dr. Munitz will
speak to the future of the museum field as it moves into the next century.
10:00 - 10:30 Exhibit Hall Break Exhibit Hall open
10:30 - 11:45 Session 1 (P)
REDEFINING SUCCESS: NON-PROFITS FOR THE YEAR 2000 Moderator: Deborah
Klochko, Director, The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center
Presenters: Travis Davision, President/Development Director, Cazadero
Performing Arts Camp Juliana Grenzeback, Financial Consultant Laurie
MacDougall, Consultant, Management Center for Non-Profit Arts This session
will explore the difficult choices that face organizations struggling to
redefine themselves in the changing economic climate of the late 1990s by
looking at case studies of two mid-sized non-profit cultural organizations
that ran into financial difficulties. One declared bankruptcy, the other
did not. A practical guide of what to do and not to do in the process of
redefining the organization for success will be offered.
11:45 - 1:15 Delegates' Luncheon
Directors' Luncheon Forum (Sponsored by Henderson Phillips Fine Arts)
Directors of museums are invited to a networking lunch with special guest
Edward H. Able, Jr., President & CEO of AAM who will discuss issues of
special interest to directors. This is a time to discuss strategies and
exchange information with colleagues who share the opportunities and
challenges of heading a museum.
Exhibit Hall open
1:15 - 2:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 2A (P) TO DEACCESSION OR NOT TO DEACCESSION?: GUIDELINES,
CONSIDERATIONS & PROCESS* Moderator: Judith L. Teichman, Attorney at Law
Presenters: Jeffrey Smith, Director of European Furniture & Decorative
Arts, Butterfield & Butterfield Deborah Cooper, Museum Collections
Coordinator, The Oakland Museum of California Ted A. Greenberg, Sr.
Registrar, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Panelists from small, medium and large museums provide information on the
processes involved in deaccessioning one or hundreds of objects, including
the philosophical and ethical considerations, the internal and external
steps that must be taken, the necessary paper trail, legal counsel, public
relations, and final object disposition. Examples of forms, formats,
collections policies, codes of ethics and contracts will be shared.
Session 2B (P) MAKING MONEY IN MUSEUMS: NEW STRATEGIES FOR MUSEUM RETAIL
Moderator: Kris Kelly, Manager of Administration, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Presenters: Julie Wick, Bookstore Manager, The J. Paul Getty Museum TBA
In this era of ever dwindling resources for museums, the generation of
revenue in museums becomes more important every year. Museum shops can
occupy a unique place in the retail world of their communities. This panel
will discuss creating a niche for your museum shop, strategies that have
worked for museum shops in the past, and suggest ways to create successful
partnerships and licensing agreements.
Session 2C (RS)* ORIENTATION TO THE CALIFORNIA COUNCIL FOR THE
HUMANITIES-GRANT FUNDING PROGRAM
Facilitators: Suzanne Guerra, Museum Program Coordinator, CCH Felicia
Kelley, LA Regional Program Officer, CCH
This session will provide an orientation to the various types of grants
available through the California Council for the Humanities with examples
of projects developed by other museums, both large and small. An emphasis
will be placed on the use of various program formats and collaborative
efforts between museums or within a community or region. Participants would
find it useful to identify a project or have developed a project concept
before attending. Grant guidelines and application forms will be provided.
2:30 - 3:45 - Concurrent Sessions
Session 3A (H) EVALUATION: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO DO IT (Part I)
*Moderator: Kathleen Brown, Principal, LORD Cultural Resources
Presenters:
Gayle Lord, President, LORD Cultural Resources Betsy Quick, Director of
Education, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA TBA
Increasingly, museums are performing program and other types of evaluation
to better measure performance and attract new audiences. Yet many museum
staff are not familiar with how to conduct evaluative research, much less
to identify when to use which types of evaluative tools. This two-part
workshop session will focus on demythologize the basic techniques and
applications for effective visitor evaluation. Part I will introduce
participants to the basic forms of evaluation. Part II will examine
specific models as examples.
Session 3B (P) SHARING EXPERIENCES: DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING PROGRAMMING
FOR MULTI-ETHNIC AUDIENCES Moderator: Sharon Kamegai-Cocita, Membership
Manager, Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Presenters: Jill Freeman, Director, Rosecrucian Egyptian Museum &
Planetarium Gwen Gomez, Community Outreach Coordinator, Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego Michele Ragland-Dilworth, Public Relations
Manager, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
This session will present projects undertaken by three metropolitan museums
of varying discipline and size in their efforts to attract traditionally
underserved multi-ethnic audiences. Discussion will focus on efforts geared
toward Asians in San Francisco, Latinos in San Diego, and diverse
populations in San Jose. Panelists will discuss securing initial and
long-range funding for ethnic audience development and how to present
projects on limited budgets. Attendees will gain an understanding of the
need for developing multi-ethnic audiences and will be given some basic
tools for creating initial and long-range plans to incorporate these
efforts into their overall institutional mission.
Session 3C (RS) NEW METHODS OF PACKING ART AND ARTIFACTS FOR TRANSIT
Presenter: Susan Avery Ford, Director of ArtSystems, Curatorial Assistance,
Los Angeles
This session will offer a comparison of both traditional and alternative
methods of safe packing and crating of works of art and artifacts for
transit. Evaluating the results of a ten-year study, Ford will cite several
case examples indicating problems encountered and solutions applied. There
will also be a summary of the cost-to-benefit ratio of different crating
methods based on a field experience of 500 transits.
3:45 - 4:15 Exhibit Hall Break Exhibit Hall open
4:15 - 5:30 - Concurrent Sessions
Session 4A (P) San Rafael Room EVALUATION: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO DO IT
(Part II)
*Part II of this panel will continue to provide a basic introduction to and
understanding of both qualitative and quantitative evaluation techniques
with a focus on specific examples of evaluation projects.
Session 4B (P) CALIFORNIA'S RESOURCES ON-LINE: CULTURAL NETS & DIGITAL
COMMUNITIES Moderator: Jim Angus, Head of New Media, Natural History Museum
of LA County
Presenters: David Jensen, Program Manager, Culture Net Initiative, The
Getty Information Institute Jim Quay, Director, California Council for the
Humanities Richard Rhinehart, Information Systems Manager, UC Berkeley Art
Museum/Pacific Film Archive Gloria Woodlock, Officer, California Arts
Council
In 1995, The Getty Information Institute initiated a project to build an
on-line community network linking arts and cultural information across the
southern California region. Since then several other projects are being
developed on a statewide level including California Culture Net, initiated
by the California Arts Council, a comprehensive web site linking museums
and cultural organizations across the state; Museums and the On-Line
Archive of California, linking museum, archival and library collections
throughout the state; and California Cultural Network, connecting small to
mid-sized humanities-related organizations. The panel offers overview of
each network and explains how museums can benefit by participating.
Session 4C (RS) LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION Resources:
Barry Hessenius, President/ CEO, California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies
Andy Finch, Assistant Director, Government Affairs, American Association of
Museums (invited)
This session will provide up-to-date information about legislation
affecting museums on the state and federal level. Delegates will be
introduced to California Arts Advocates, the recently launched 501(c)(6)
not-for-profit trade association actively working to develop strategies and
coordinate advocacy to strengthen California's arts and culture.
6:00 Busses leave for Golden Gate Park Museums
6:30 - 10:00 Progressive Dinner at the California Academy of Sciences and
the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Our summer evening will begin with a stroll through the galleries of the
California Academy of Sciences followed by dinner in the museum's African
Hall. After a walk across the park to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, we
will enjoy dessert and coffee and view current exhibitions including John
Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West, Ancient Glass from the Holy Land,
and the George Fitch Collection.
Friday, July 18 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 CAM Annual Report
9:15 - 10:00 Town Hall Meeting (T)
Join your colleagues in an stimulating exchange of ideas and information.
Facilitator Edward Robings, Director of the Ventura County Museum of
History and Art, will lead an open forum focussed on the opportunities and
challenges that museum professionals face on a daily basis. This is a time
to share successful strategies and identify short- and long-term actions
that can move your museum forward.
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Address (K) Delaine Eastin, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, California Department of Education (invited)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A (P) MAKING MUSEUMS MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC
Moderator: Adrienne Horn, President, Museum Management Consultants
Presenters: Hugh Davies, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Jacquelynn Baas, Director, U.C. Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
This session will focus on a number of factors that impact the internal
operations of a museum when an organization becomes more visitor-focused.
The issues discussed will focus on findings that are emerging from a
multi-year study, conducted by the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, that
addresses some of the trends that are emerging in twenty-two grantee
museums as they develop and refine their internal practices and strategies
for presenting collections and programs to expanded audiences.
Session 5B (P) BEG, BORROW OR LOAN: SHARING EXHIBITION RESOURCES*
Moderator: Theresa Hanley, Director, Museum of History & Art, Ontario
Presenters: Josie Callan, Director, San Jose Museum of Art Constance W.
Glenn, Director, University Art Museum, California State University, Long
Beach Suzanne Guerra, Museum Program Coordinator, CCH
With limited budgets and expansive ideas, museums are constantly struggling
to offer their audiences comprehensive and innovative programs and
exhibitions. This panel will present models and programs which encourage
and facilitate collections sharing, including The Museum Loan Network,
facilitating funding the long-term loan of artworks among museums through
the United States, and California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA),
offering smaller humanities museums statewide the opportunity to develop
programming collaboratively.
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Visits to Yerba Buena Alliance Museums and Cultural
Centers
Conference delegates will pick up their box lunches at the adjacent
California Historical Society and proceed to the Yerba Buena Gardens to
relax and eat--quickly! Maps of the area lead to surrounding sites open for
visits -- Cartoon Art Museum, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, and SFMOMA.
2:00 - 3:15 Concurrent Sessions
Session 6A (P) DIGITIZING YOUR COLLECTION: PROCESS, COST AND APPLICATIONS
Moderator: Wayne Sandmeyer, Support Engineer, Phase One
Presenters: Carl Hansen, Chief, National Museum of Natural History Branch,
Office of Printing & Photographic Services Mark Roosa, Chief Preservation
Officer & Head of Photographic Services, Huntington Library, Art
Collections & Gardens TBA
More and more museums are digitizing images of the objects in their
collections to assist with the basic tasks of registration, reproduction,
preservation, and to increase accessibility. This panel will explore the
process, cost and applications of digitizing from the perspective of
museums which have successfully completed the task. An experienced engineer
will be present to answer technical questions.
Session 6B (H) CONFLICT OR CONSENSUS: THE ROLE OF THE TRUSTEE IN MUSEUM ETHICS
Moderator: Jeannette O'Malley, Assistant Director, Southwest Museum
Presenters: Pamela M. Bruder, Trustee, San Diego Society of Natural History
Jean R. Wente, Trustee, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library TBA
This hands-on workshop for staff, directors and trustees of museums will
focus on the trustee's role in museum ethics. Participants will engage in
lively discussions exploring the resolution of challenging ethical
dilemmas, evaluate case studies hinging on conflict of interest and other
issues, and gather information to enable their institutions to formulate
their own ethics code in response to AAM's charge. Examples of model codes
of ethics and case studies will be available.
3:15 - 4:30 - Concurrent Sessions
Session 7A (P) ROBBING THE BANK: HOW TO OBTAIN GENERAL OPERATING DOLLARS
Facilitator: Janet Aldrich Jacobs, CFRE, Vice President & Director of
Western Regional Operations, Charles H. Bentz Associates, Inc.
Presenters: John Limpert, Jr., Associate Fund Counsel, Charles H. Bentz
Associates, Inc. TBA TBA
On the eve of the millennium, museums face an ever more competitive
philanthropic marketplace. Meeting the demands of the annual operating
budget is a continuous challenge. Short of robbing the bank, what can we
do? Join this experienced panel of fund-raising professionals who will
discuss both innovative and practical ways to improve your bottom line.
Session 7B (P) THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MUSEUMS: REFLECTIONS FROM
EDCOM'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE HONOREES
Moderator: Margaret Kadoyama, Museum Consultant, Community Outreach &
Program Development
Presenters: Susan Bernstein, Education Consultant Bonnie Pitman, Executive
Director, Bay Area Discovery Museum Judith White, Museum Educator,
Educational Design TBA
Since 1983, the Education Committee of AAM has been awarding an annual
award for Excellence in Practice to recognize outstanding contributions to
public education. Recipients of the award demonstrate exemplary service to
the public through the practice of education in a museum and succeed in
stretching the boundaries defining the parameters of good practice. AAM is
publishing a book of essays by those honored with the award in the last 25
years, which looks at the past, present and future of museums and the
changing role of museum education. This session will feature thoughtful
reflections on the changing roles of museum education from four California
award honorees.
4:30 Busses leave SFMOMA for Hotel
5:30 Busses leave Hotel for Closing Reception at the California Palace of
the Legion of Honor
Sponsored by Butterfield & Butterfield
Join your colleagues for an enchanting twilight reception at the recently
expanded and renovated California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Set on a
headland where the Pacific Ocean spills into the San Francisco Bay, the
Legion of Honor is one of the most dramatic museums in the country. Enjoy
the grandeur of its neoclassical architecture, unforgettable views of the
city and the Golden Gate Bridge, and the 4,000 years of ancient and
European art.
Program and Meal Selections All meals are included with registration fee
EXCEPT dinner at the California Academy of Sciences on Thursday, July 9.
Registration Policy Deadline for early registration discount is June 15.
Cancellations received by June 15 will be honored with an 80 percent
refund. No refunds after June 15. Registration at full fee will be
available during the conference only on Thursday, July 9 from 8:00-9:00 AM
at the Radisson Miyako Hotel. Only individuals registered and wearing
badges may attend programs, events and meals.
Scholarship Fine Arts Risk Management, specialists in Fine Arts and
collections insurance, and Wells Fargo are among the businesses who have
generously sponsored scholarships for the emerging museum professionals who
best fulfill the following guidelines. Scholarship includes two-day
conference registration and one night in the Radisson Miyako Hotel (for
out-of-town recipients). Applicant must: 1) be a new professional in the
museum field; no more than two years professional experience (students and
interns may apply) 2) demonstrate that attending conference will assist in
forwarding career goals 3) demonstrate financial need. Please submit letter
of application which addresses these guidelines to: CAM, 2002 N. Main
Street, Santa Ana, CA 92706, FAX 714/480-0053. Deadline for submission is
June 15, 1998.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Location A crossroads to everywhere, San Francisco is host to more than 13
million visitors a year. Its attractions range from Fisherman's Wharf to
Ocean Beach, from the Golden Gate Bridge to Golden Gate Park, and of course
its museums and cultural centers. The city's international birthright is
evident everywhere - in its ethnic pageantry, restaurants, street names and
neighborhoods. San Francisco has a glittering tradition in the performing
arts, upheld by its world class opera, symphony, ballet and drama
companies. It supports a myriad of museums and galleries, many of which are
sites for conference events and activities.
Accommodations The Radisson Miyako Hotel, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco,
CA, is the 1998 Conference headquarters. In the heart of Japantown, The
Miyako is a blend of Japanese and California style, just minutes away from
museums, Union Square, Nob Hill, Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, and Golden
Gate Park. A discounted rate of $129 plus 14% tax (single/double) has been
arranged for CAM conference attendees. Self parking is available at the
Japan Center (below the Hotel) for $10.00. The special room rate will also
be available two days prior to and after the conference, if you wish to
extend your stay. Reservations should be made directly with the hotel by
calling 415/922-3200 by June 17, 1998 to assure availability. Rooms may not
be available after that date. Be sure to identify your affiliation with CAM
to receive the discounted conference rate.
Land and Air Transportation Bus transportation to and from the Radisson
Miyako Hotel and conference activities is provided by conference
organizers.
The Hotel is located approximately 30 minutes from the San Francisco
Airport. Super Shuttles are available from SFO $10 one way. Call
800/258-3826 for reservations.
Vendor Exhibit Area The CAM Annual Conference is pleased to recognize the
support of its Business Associates. These corporate partners support the
work of the conference by renting space to present information about their
services and products. Visit their exhibits all day on Thursday, July 9 in
the Radisson Miyako Hotel. Visit each vendor and have them initial your
Passport to be eligible for a free 1999 CAM Conference Registration.
Continental breakfast and coffee breaks will be served in this area.
Silent Auction 9:00 - 5:00 PM - Thursday, July 9 Shop 'til you drop at
CAM's second annual Silent Auction offering a great selection of fabulous
items! Great gifts and timeless treasures including beautiful gift packages
from CAM member museums.
Job Board / Museum Information Tables A bulletin board for museum job
listings and tables for materials about museums in California will be
available on both days adjacent to the registration area. Participants are
encouraged to bring job listings for the board and flyers and brochures for
the information tables.
Jim Angus
Manager Information Technology/Web Development
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
http://www.nhm.org
voice: 213/763-3317
fax: 213/746-2999
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