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Sustaining Communities: The Power of Museums

New England Museum Association

Annual Conference, November 12-14, 2008

Warwick, Rhode Island

 

Join more than 800 colleagues in your region for networking and high-quality professional development. Affordable registration rates—including lunches—are available. Institutional members at any level may register all staff at the member rate. Scholarships and volunteer opportunities are also available.

 

Come explore near-by Providence, a renaissance city with world-class museums, a revitalized downtown and the quaint and historic East Side. The conference hotel, the beautifully renovated Crowne Plaza, is just minutes away with affordable room rates and plenty of free parking.

 

Everything you love about the NEMA conference—big enough to offer more than 60 sessions… intimate enough to meet friends and colleagues.

 

Timely, high-quality sessions include:

Choosing a New Path: Alternative Uses for Historic Sites with Ken Turino of Historic New England

Sustaining Our Heritage: Collaborative Historical Records Projects

Textile Conservation 101 and Scrapbook Conservation with Deborah Wender of NEDCC

Beyond Board Orientation: Inspiring & Sustaining Trustees

How Do I Get an Intern (When They All Want to Go to the MFA)? with Cynthia Robinson

Building an Exhibit with the Community

Making Museum Collections Accessible: An Important Goal of the Museum

The Little Museum that Could! (and Did!) a Capital Campaign with Peg Baker of Pilgrim Hall Museum

Power in Numbers - Driving Tourism Traffic and Building Community

Fundraising in Today’s Economy

 

Plus leadership conversations with former AAM Board member Bill Eiland; author of the newly revised “Museums in Motion” Mary Alexander; and marketing consultant Dorothy Chen-Courtin.

 

Preliminary program books and registration forms are available online and will be mailed in early September. For more information, please visit www.nemanet.org.