What a great idea.... Here's the web site of just such an organization...

http://www.io.com/~tam/smanet/home.html

Sorry to burst your bubble. And they used to call themselves PLASMA
for "Pretty loose association of state museum associations"

Diane G.

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:27:08 -0400, Jeremy T. Chrabascz
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Does anyone think that there would be support for starting a National
>Association of State Museums (or State Museums Association)?  That is, an
>association dedicated to "STATE" or municipal museums.  NOT an association
>of all of the museums within a state like the Association of Indiana
>Museums, Wisconsin Federation of Museums, Illinois Association of Museums,
>Conference of State Museum Associations etc.
>

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