Early Bird Registration Discount for MPMA's Conference Ends
Next Week
If you
peak into MPMA's Preliminary Conference Program for its annual
meeting on September 30 -October 3, 2013, in Lincoln, Nebraska, you'll see
that it's full of sessions,
workshops, and educational trips for staff, volunteers, and those who love
museums of all kinds. It is a
REALLY good program.
Just
imagine.....
*Tours of historic and artsy sites
in big towns like Lincoln and Omaha and in smaller towns that have a ton of
charm like David City, Nebraska City, Grand Isle.
*Workshops on: Mountmaking, Emergency Preparedness,
Mobile Exhibit Tours, and Digitization.
And there are 5 more workshops!
*Meetings for curators, exhibitors,
registrars, educators, volunteers, tribal professionals, small museum staff,
AAMG and EMPs, KU and Texas Tech alumns.
*New this year! The Knitting Network
*Sessions on object handling,
FUNdraising, dioramas, sensitive topics, code of ethics, ethnography, QR
Codes, rural museums, curator is dead, open storage, science in museums, water
disasters, Smithsonian Affiliates,
sculpture.
People commenting on this year's
program say it is hard to choose which sessions to attend since there are so
many good ones. They also marvel
at the number of workshops and
tours!
This will be a good meeting for
learning, seeing and getting new perspectives. It will also be a good
opportunity to meet people who do the same thing you do - or would like to
do. And don't forget
Late-Nite,one of the most popular sessions at the conference. This years' topic is "Collections in
Crisis."
Take advantage of the early bird discount that ends
next week, August 1st.
Registration is the cheapest now, so register before the discount
period ends. For more information
and to get the FULL conference program, visit http://mpma.net/
MPMA: A Ten-state
museum network
Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming
Mark your
calendar:
2013 MPMA Conference: September
30-October 3 Lincoln, Nebraska
Mountain-Plains Museums Association
7110
West David Drive
Littleton, Colorado 80128-5404
303-979-9358
www.mpma.net