Museum Conference in Taos! 

Why not make your next conference be at a great destination?

Enjoy the Mystic of Taos in the Land of Enchantment

at

Mountain-Plains Museums Association’s

 2006 Conference
September 18 - 22, 2006

MPMA’s Conference Program  is available online at www.mpma.org  Conference Programs are in the mail to MPMA members!  Want a copy? Respond to this email.

Taos is rich with art, steeped in history and continues to have an active art scene. It has a wealth of restaurants, museums, galleries and shops.  Its rich southwestern cultural legacy is set amid the striking contrasts of its natural beauty.  This backdrop offers the perfect compliment to MPMA’s conference theme:  When Cultures Converge, Doors Open. 

Join us this September  in a meeting some are saying is incredibly strong in history, material culture and the great museum issues of the day. 

More workshops than ever this year: 

1.Workshop - Taos Pottery

2. Workshop - Certified Institutional Protection Manager

3. Workshop - Historic Gardens

4. Workshop - Hispanic Pottery

5. Workshop - From Digital Capture to Database Presentation

6. Workshop - Historic Tools

7. Workshop - Faux Food

8. Workshop - Product Development for Museums

9. Workshop - Mannequins

10. Workshop - Capital Projects

Sessions:  Sessions feature Taos,  historical objects, fine art as well as ones pertaining to the museum profession.  Here’s a short list of the many that will be offered.

• Collecting Taos: Great Museum Collections of Taos Society of Artists

• Taos Art Colony: Perspectives from Descendants

• Taking a Small Museum from Uh Oh to Excellent

• 12,000 Years of New Mexico Art and Architecture

• NAGPRA: A Convergence of Cultures, Past, Present & Future

• Taos Pueblo: In the Presence of a World Landmark

• Creating Outstanding Audio/Video Programs

• Hands-on History Camp

• Tough Terrain: “Problem Areas” for Administrators

• Economic Impact of Arts and Cultural Industries

• Charitable Giving: Making it Part of Your Museum’s Culture

• A Candid Conversation on Cultural Property

• Russian Artists in Taos

•  Demystifying the Strategic Planning Process

•  Twelve Security Lessons from Katrina and Rita

•  It’s Not Landscaping; It’s an Outdoor Interpretive Planting!

• Directors as Agents of Change

• Reaching Out to the Home School Audience

• Controlling Relative Humidity

Tours: These tours will show you hidden treasures of Taos 

• Historic Homes and Artist Studio Tour

• Historic Tour of Taos

• Shopping and Historic Tour of Taos and Environs

Evening Events: Network and  see what’s inside these incredible

museums and galleries

• Millicent Rogers Museum

• Taos Art Museum

• The Harwood Museum of Art

• La Hacienda de los Martinez

• Gallery Walking Tour  - open late just for delegates

Other Events Too Good To Pass Up:

•MPMA’s Tribal Museum Network’s Opening Welcome

•Forum on the Closing of the Department of Interior’s Three Indian Museums

•Cowboy Dancing at the Historic Sagebrush Bar

Discuss Issues and Meet Friends

There are always people ready to strike up a conversation at ANY hour at MPMA’s Conferences,  particularly at the following events:

•Late-Nite at the Bar: To Collect or Not to Collect...That is the Question Facing Museum Professionals

•Winedale Reunion

•Inclusive Practices Mixer and Dialogue about Community Matters

•KU Alumns and Students

•Museum Directors Roundtable Cocktail Hour

•New Mexico Association of Museums Reception

•Affinity Groups aimed at your professional expertise

You don’t want to miss this conference.    For more information on the annual meeting, check out the MPMA’s web site at www.mpma.org or call us at the MPMA office: (303) 979-9358 or e-mail [log in to unmask] Need a program mailed to you?  Call us at the office or respond to this email.

2006: Year of the Museum
MPMA's Annual Conference in 2006 is in Taos, New Mexico, September 18-22nd.  Join us as we explore together "A Convergence of Cultures" and learn about the wonders of
northern New Mexico's material culture.
MPMA: A Ten-state museum network
MPMA is the professional service provider to museums in ten states: Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
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