The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is
pleased to be offering a six-day immersion workshop with Stephen Weil in
September:

MUSEUMS AT THE CROSSROADS
Among museums, many old ideas are bankrupt. Museums around the world are
experiencing a profound need to redefine their relationships with communities,
funders, donors, academia and one another. This intensive workshop probes the
roots of this situation and challenges you to reexamine the fundamental purposes
of museums as a basis for refining institutional goals, structures and future
directions. Stephen E. Weil draws on his distinguised background as a museum
executive, writer, teacher, thinker and consultant to facilitate your exploration of:
- improving peoples' lives as the core purpose of museums
- the fundamental role of community in defining the museum's 'bottom line'
- the impacts of shifting support
- lessons business and from other not-for- profit organizations
- issues of governance
- leadership and management
- measuring impacts
- defining success
- ethics and professionalism

Participants in this workshop should bring a minimum of five years experience
in museums and a willingness to rethink some basic beliefs about their role and
relationships.

Instructor: Stephen E. Weil, Curator Emeritus with the Smithsonian Office of
Museum Programs
Dates: September 14 - 19
Please register by:  August 14
Fee: $589 Canadian Funds, credit or non-credit
Location: The University of Victoria, on southern Vancouver Island, British
Colulmbia - Victoria is easily accessible by ferry or air from both Seattle and
Vancouver


Course, program, and travel information are available on our website - please let
us know if you would like to receive further information and registration
materials!








Joy Davis, Program Director
Cultural Resource Management Program
University of Victoria
Phone 250-721-8462
FAX 250-721-8774
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For detailed Program information, please visit our Web Site at
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp