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HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEMA EXHIBIT HALL It all started 100 years ago, when Delia Griffin, Grand Ballroom, Thursday, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm; founding director of the Boston Children’s Museum, Friday, 8 am – 1 pm gathered a group of colleagues at the Hotel Get the latest information on innovative products Westminster in the Back Bay to organize a regional and services for the museum community. The conference for people who couldn’t make it to the Exhibit Hall is also a hub of activity for your coffee/ national meetings of the American Association of snack breaks, the Demonstration Station, and where Museums. A few months later, the tradition started: you pick up your on-site box lunch (pre-registration the very first “New England Conference,” held at required). Enter to win raffle prizes from exhibitors the New England Society of Natural History with 40 and museums. Details in your registration packet. attendees. Thus began NEMA. BE SOCIAL Our centennial celebration kicks off at this Connect to your community and continue conference! Enjoy our special NEMA timeline the conversation by tweeting (#NEMA2018 & exhibit in the Mezzanine Lobby, courtesy of our #NEMA100) and sharing lessons learned on friends at 42 Design Fab (Booth #12 in the Exhibit NEMA’s social media pages (@NEMAnet). Be Hall) and Brad Larson Media (Booth #13). Spend a visual and post your photos using #NEMA2018 on few minutes with Brad to record your recollections Instagram. Share the fun of conference and tell the and dreams for NEMA and the field. world why you love museums. CONFERENCE APP DEMONSTRATION STATION Put the entire 2018 NEMA Conference at your Grand Ballroom fingertips with our exclusive conference app. You’ll The Demonstration Station is the place to get have it all: access to session information, floor plans, fast-moving, how-to tips on mastering the latest evaluations, social media, and information about museum field trends. Stamford. Download the Whova app from the App Store or Google Play. Open Whova, then search for REGISTRATION LIST “100th Annual NEMA Conference.” Click on the This year NEMA will provide the registration conference, then click “Join Event.” If it asks for a list electronically. Download it at nemanet.org/ password, enter “NEMA100.” reglist2018 or use the conference app. A printed copy will be available at Walk-in Registration on request. KEYNOTE SESSION Grand Ballroom, Wednesday, 10:30 am NEMA CONFERENCE BOOKSTORE It’s NEMA’s centennial and you are invited to help Registration Area, Wednesday, Noon – 5 pm; us commemorate it! At this very special keynote Thursday, 8 am – 5 pm; Friday, 8 am – Noon session you’ll hear short reflections from museum Browse the Conference Bookstore for great reads to colleagues, then a multimedia performance from an add to your professional development library. emerging museum professional who doubles as an artist and competitive weightlifter. NEMA ANNUAL LUNCHEON MEETING Grove Ballroom, Friday, 12:45 – 2 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS Pre-registration required. Conference sessions can fill up quickly and are on a Join us as we present NEMA’s Lifetime first-come, first-seated basis. We suggest arriving at Achievement Award celebrating the career of least 5 minutes prior to the starting time and having Lawrence J. Yerdon. Also celebrate the winners of a second choice ready. the NEMA Excellence Awards.

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SESSION HANDOUTS QUESTIONS? You can access speaker handouts at nemanet.org/ Visit the NEMA Registration Desk from 7:30 am – handouts. 5 pm Wednesday, 8 am – 5 pm Thursday, and 8 am till noon on Friday. 2018 PUBLICATION AWARD WINNERS Registration Area Look over the winners of this year’s NEMA Publication Awards. See the best in design, production, and communication. Wednesday, November 7

NEMA FITNESS Speakers: Henry Duffy, Curator, Saint-Gaudens 6:30 – 7:00 am National Historic Site, NH; Kinney Frelinghuysen, Join NEMA Director Dan Yaeger for his annual Director and Trustee, Frelinghuysen Morris House & kick-off-the-conference morning walk. Studio, MA; Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator, Florence Griswold Museum, CT NEMA CONFERENCE PREVIEW 8:00 – 8:30 am Assessing Museum Impact: Early Findings from NEMA’s Research on Using Data Glen 1 Strategically First time at a NEMA conference? Learn how to Glen 1 make the most of it. Grab a coffee and get some Evaluating outcomes and assessing impacts can tips for how you can use your time to your best be strengthened by choosing appropriate sources advantage. of data and making a comparison between a Facilitators: Jennifer Duckett, Studio Art Program base-line situation and change over time. The Coordinator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Christina Assessing Museum Impact (AMI) research project, Errico, Engineering Education Associate, Museum sponsored by NEMA, has engaged seven mid- of Science, Boston; Sally Meyer, Public Programs sized NEMA museums in different disciplines Coordinator, Concord Museum, MA; Adrienne over two years to explore whether the use of Turnbull-Reilly, Program Assistant, Paul Revere self-selected metrics can improve impact and Memorial Association, MA performance. This session reports preliminary findings from two of the museums. REGISTRATION OPEN Facilitators: Laura B. Roberts, Principal, Roberts 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Consulting, MA; Lynn Baum, Principal, Turtle Creek Hosted by Consulting, MA Speakers: Jim Chase, President, Seacoast Science Center, NH; Paula Rais, VP of Development & Community Engagement, New Hampshire Children’s Museum

WELCOME COFFEE AND MORNING Larping, Simulation, and Gaming: Are they the Future? TREATS Belltown Registration Area Live action role playing, simulation, and gaming 8:00 – 8:45 am are being used in museums and non-museums Hosted by like never before. How and when can they be used well and what are their limitations? This session will take you deeper into the subject and provide inspiration for your own needs. CONCURRENT SESSIONS Facilitator: Jan Crocker, Senior Exhibit and Content 8:45 – 10:15 am Developer, Edward M. Kennedy for the United States Senate, MA The Art of Preservation: The Women Speakers: Daud Alzayar, Designer, Curious Experience Behind Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios Media, ID; Kellian Adams Pletcher, Founder and of New England Mastermind, Green Door Labs, MA; Greg Trefry, Co- Alder Founder & Game Designer, Gigantic Mechanic, NY This panel will introduce women associated with historically-preserved artistic enclaves of The Museum as a Site of Resistance New England: Berkshires, Cornish, Cos Cob, Aspen 2 and Old Lyme. Speakers will discuss their work For museums to stay relevant and necessary in telling women’s stories at these important sites of the lives of the people in their communities, they creativity—including identifying source materials, must learn to respond in times of crisis. Hear developing programming/exhibitions/publications from artists and museum professionals who are to build narratives that tell a broader American creating and curating art that critiques, resists, and story. The session will also explore advancing revolts. Panelists will address the myth of museum the influences of female-driven preservation neutrality and demonstrate how they leverage their and activism, enhancing primary storylines of work in the arts as a force for social justice and biography and artistic expression. community building. Facilitator: Valerie Balint, Program Manager, Historic Facilitator: Luciana McClure, Visual Artist, Activist, Artists’ Homes and Studios, Chesterwood Historic Photographer and Educator, Nasty Women Connecticut Site, MA Speakers: Anita Bateman, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial

2 100th Annual NEMA Conference Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, RISD collective buy-in to your organization’s purpose? Museum; Margaret Middleton, Independent Exhibit Through the examples of three museums—of Designer, RI (NEMA Board); Aliza Shvarts, Joan different sizes and at varying stages of the mission, Tisch Teaching Fellow, Whitney Museum of American planning, branding cycle—this session will explore Art, NY the process of developing and/or revising a museum’s mission statement and the central role The Museum That Cried “Should” – it plays in a museum’s evolution. We’ll focus on Responding to the Call for Environmental the benefits of having regular discussions about Literacy mission at all levels of your institution, the clarity Cove that your mission statement provides for strategic All museums are advocates for something. Local and programmatic planning, and, ultimately, the history museums are advocates for community ways in which mission drives branding. and tradition. Science museums advocate Facilitator: Douglas Perkins, Associate Director, that we should not smoke cigarettes, that we Operations and Finance, Middlebury College Museum should eat less fat and sugar, and that through of Art, VT (NEMA Board) experimentation, we can learn and be inventive. Art museums are advocates for appreciation and Speakers: Juliette Bianco, Deputy Director and Nils creativity. Children’s museums are advocates for Nadeau, Associate Director, Strategy and External safety, play, and cooperative learning. Shouldn’t Relations, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, natural and environmental history museums NH; Katie MacDonald, Director, Old Colony History advocate for the wonder, study, collection, and Museum, MA continuance of the planet’s natural history? This session will offer the notion that people possess The STEAM Dream Team various degrees of attachment to the environment Grove Ballroom when they set out to visit museums, and therefore Learn how collaboration between institutions museums must provide encounters and programs can create meaningful STEAM programming! that fall within four key stages of literacy: wonder, In this session, educators from the Wadsworth knowledge, critical thinking, and action. Atheneum Museum of Art and the Connecticut Science Center discuss how an initial joint-school Facilitator: Matt Kirchman, President and Principal program evolved—and continues to evolve— Planner, ObjectIDEA, MA (NEMA Board) into a multivalent partnership that benefits both Speakers: Matthew Beaton, MA Secretary of Energy institutions. The session will include a hands-on and Environmental Affairs; Susan Quincy, CT State STEAM activity and practical tips for starting your Parks Outreach and Education own art-science collaboration. Facilitator: Angela Parker, Docent and Tour Programs Project Management for Museum Manager, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, CT Professionals: Scheduling, Budgeting, and Communicating for Success Speakers: Andrew Fotta, STEM Educator, Nicolas Glen 2/3 Villagra, STEM Educator, Connecticut Science Center Picture this: a looming deadline, a stretched budget, a team needing guidance, and no idea Succession Planning: Is Your Organization where to begin. We’ve all been there! Join us to Prepared? learn how project management strategies can Elm help you get organized, improve communication, Are leaders born or raised? Perhaps both, but it is stay on budget, meet your goals, and effectively the job of human resource departments, trustees, report on your successes. Plus, bring home a executive directors, and senior management to toolkit of project management templates to your identify and hire those who fill key positions in our organization - for you to implement immediately! museums, as interim and permanent leadership. Learn the steps required to forge a smooth Facilitator: Shaelyn Amaio, Producer of Public transition when your top positions are vacated. Programs & Community Engagement, New York For those seeking senior management or executive Transit Museum director positions, learn how to position yourself Speakers: Laurie P. Lamarre, Curator of Exhibitions, for and find opportunities in the field. Individuals Fairfield Museum and History Center, CT; Christine responsible for creating position profiles, Pittsley, Project Director for “Remembering World War identifying talent and training, and designing on- I: Sharing History/Preserving Memories,” Connecticut boarding processes will benefit from this session. State Library Facilitator: Dawn Salerno, Executive Director, Rotch- Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, MA (NEMA Refresh Your Mission, Revitalize Your Board) Brand Aspen 1 Speakers: Rebekah Beaulieu, Executive Director, How current is your museum’s mission statement? Florence Griswold Museum, CT (NEMA Board); John Is it easily articulated? Does it actively inform Noyes, Search Committee Chair, Board of Directors, your day-to-day operations? How often do you Florence Griswold Museum, CT; Purvi Patwari, reconsider your mission and reaffirm your staff’s Independent Museum Professional, MA; Bruce Thibodeau, President, Art Consulting Group, MA

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It’s NEMA’s centennial and you are invited to help us commemorate it! At this very special keynote session you’ll hear short reflections from Nina Zannieri of the Paul Revere Memorial Association on “The Future of History;” Christina Turner of the New Bedford Whaling Museum speaking on “Diversity, Youth, and Museums;” Brian Cofrancesco of Connecticut’s Old State House examining “Museums & Civic Dialogue;” and Brooke DiGiovanni Evans of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on “Art as Healing.”

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OPENING LUNCH CONCURRENT SESSIONS 12:30 – 1:30 pm 1:45 – 3:15 pm Grove Ballroom; Ticket Required Beyond the Keychain: Mission-Inspired Merchandising and Thoughtful Products in DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES LUNCH Your Gift Store 12:30 – 1:30 pm Aspen 1 Grand Ballroom 1; Ticket Required In this workshop session, we will explore how to set your store apart by extending the museum experience Hosted by in the shop. Through discussion, case studies, and a Qm² skill building activity, you will be more familiar with product development, creative merchandising, license OFF-SITE SESSIONS opportunities, and how to use the collection to drive 1:20 – 5:15 pm profits in your museum store. A practical discussion of where to go next for institutions wanting a more The Real Deal: P. T. Barnum’s Legacy in mission-related gift store. Bridgeport Barnum Museum Facilitator: Jenna Teachout, Manager of Newport History Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 1:20 pm. Bus Museum & Shop, Newport Historical Society, RI leaves promptly at 1:30 pm. Speakers: Kathleen Maher, Executive Director and Looking Ahead: Challenges (and Adrienne Saint-Pierre, Curator, Barnum Museum, CT Opportunities!) for the Next Generation of Museum Leaders Grand Ballroom 1 Do you plan to be part of the next generation of museum leadership? Join us to connect with peers (continued on page 6)

Stamford 2018 5 (continued from page 5) docents’ intellectual lives, keep them up to date and incorporate reflective, cyclical self-assessment. The and think critically about the future of museums. speakers are from history and art museums, but the What can we do to address current challenges and developmental strategies apply to all subject areas. create future opportunities? Facilitated round- tables will discuss the proliferation of graduate Facilitator: Annie V.F. Storr, Scholar, WSRC Brandeis programs; preventing burnout and brain-drain; University, Kniznick Gallery, Museum Studies, disparities in race, class, and gender among museum Harvard, MA professionals; the changing nature of museum work; Speakers: Rachael Kelly, Manager of Museum Guide & and the place of museums in a 21st-century world. Public Programs, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Facilitator: Amanda Goodheart Parks, PhD, Director of MA; Courtney Richardson, Director of Education & Education, New England Air Museum, CT Public Programs, Cape Ann Museum, MA Speakers: Nicole Carpenter, Education and Programs History Ain’t Dead Director, Westport Historical Society, CT; Nick Aspen 2 Foster, Office Manager, Collections and Membership History ain’t dead. It’s alive in how it continues Coordinator, Wilton Historical Society, CT; Phillippa to affect our national culture, our institutions, Pitts, Horowitz Fellow for American Art, Boston and each one of us. If we claim to study the past University to better understand the present how can we design history-based museums to energize visitors Continuing Education for Your Most about current-day social justice issues? Speakers Committed (and Creative) Life-Long will present exhibits on slavery, genocide, and Learners incarceration to engage you in discussion of how Glen 1 to move your historic exhibits into a present-day Who better to model the excitement of engaged context relevant and inspiring to visitors. learners than the docents and guides who staff our activity areas, lead tours, and coordinate program Facilitator: Regie Gibson, Independent Artistic events? This session considers experiences of long- Consultant, MA serving volunteer educators from the standpoint of Speakers: Christian Cotz, Museum Educator, James their interest in and capacity for new learning, in Madison’s Montpelier, VA; Chris Danemayer, Principal, subject matter and pedagogical techniques. You’ll Proun Design, LLC, MA; Aaron Goldblatt, Partner, learn about different tailored programs to refresh Metcalfe Architecture & Design, PA

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6 100th Annual NEMA Conference How Digital Publishing is Helping the Craig Langlois, Chief Experience Officer, Berkshire National Baseball Hall of Fame Reach Museum, MA; Robert Woltersdorf, Executive Director, Audiences Beyond Cooperstown Bennington Museum, VT Cove Join the founders of the National Baseball Hall of Tales from the Not-so-Ivory Tower: War Fame and Museum’s new media property, La Vida Stories from Veteran Directors Baseball, to learn how the museum is growing its Grove Ballroom fan base through digital publishing. In this session, Join NEMA Lifetime Achievement Awardees for a they’ll cover how to bring your museum’s stories candid and darkly humorous discussion of disasters into the national dialogue, engage audiences that survived and lessons learned during their combined might never step foot through your doors and 163 years of leadership. Each will share true, yet how to create new sponsorship opportunities with rarely disclosed, war stories and reflect upon the digital content. outcomes. Covering a broad spectrum of museum Facilitator: Jay Sharman, CEO, Founder, TeamWorks issues, this session offers a glimpse of what it takes Media, IL to be a museum director. We promise to enlighten, Speakers: Adrian Burgos, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, La entertain, inspire, and convince you that your worst Vida Baseball, IL; Jon Shestakofsky, Vice President of moments ultimately make you a better leader. Communications and Education, National Baseball Hall Facilitator: Wendy Lull, Lifetime Achievement Awardee of Fame and Museum, NY '17, President Emerita, Seacoast Science Center, NH Speakers: Jeff Andersen, Lifetime Achievement Awardee Low Pay, No Pay and Poor Pay: Say No '16, CT; Charles Browne, Lifetime Achievement Way! Awardee '13, VT; Stuart Parnes, Lifetime Achievement Glen 2/3 Awardee '14, MD; Nina Zannieri Lifetime Achievement Low pay has long been the elephant in the room Awardee '15, Paul Revere Memorial Association, MA in the museum world. From unpaid internships, to starting salaries that don’t pay a living wage, Technology Plan 101 to gender disparity, field-wide poor pay creates Alder an unhappy workforce. In addition, it strongly Digital technologies are changing so fast that it can influences museum workforce demographics since be hard to keep pace with them. But with a basic many of those who can afford to accept positions plan in hand, you can be better prepared and better with low pay, and then stay in the field long term, financed for what lies ahead. Technology plans, like tend to more often than not be affluent, upper business plans, help you predict and manage your middle class, and white. Join us for a rotation of hardware, software, and human training needs. round-table discussions about museum profession Facilitator: Sheila Hoffman, PhD., Adjunct Professor, pay inequity before coming together to share University of Massachusetts, Lowell discussion and, most importantly, start to move the discussion from complaints to positive change. STORY TELLING SESSION Facilitators: Grace Astrove, Senior Development Officer for Exhibitions, The Jewish Museum, NY; Joan Baldwin, Brief Presentations with Big Meaning Curator of Special Collections, The Hotchkiss School, 1:45 – 3:15 pm Co-Author of Women in the Museum: Lessons from Elm the Field, CT; Kelsey Brow, Curator, King Manor, NY; Ilene Frank, Chief Curator and COO, CT Historical Object-Based Learning for All: Creating a Society; Diane Jellerette, Executive Director, Norwalk History Learning Center Historical Society, CT; Scott Wands, Manager of Grants The Concord Museum’s innovative new History and Programs, CT Humanities Learning Center is a dedicated learning space where educators will provide in-depth learning experiences for visitors of all ages, including Old-Fashioned, Identity Nightmare or Ahead of the Curve? students, teachers, families, and the general public, Belltown with actual objects from the museum’s collection. This will explore how interdisciplinary museums Educators from the museum will address both the can position themselves clearly by making theoretical and practical aspects of the Center’s connections between disciplines to build immersive, development, demonstrate some sample activities meaningful (and perhaps surprising) visitor in small groups, and give participants specific experiences. Speakers will address advantages strategies for engaging different audiences with in developing STEM and STEAM programs and original objects. encourage audience discussion of how these Facilitator: Suzi Fonda, Director of Education and Public programs may be adapted for single-discipline Programs, Concord Museum, MA institutions. Please note: This session was originally scheduled as an off-site session. All are welcome. What Would Clara Think? Connecting the Facilitator: Anne von Stuelpnagel, Director of Past to the Future at Fruitlands Museum Exhibitions, Bruce Museum, CT Founded in 1914, Fruitlands Museum is 104 years old with an eclectic and remarkable collection Speakers: Corinne Flax, Manager of School and Community Partnerships, Bruce Museum, CT; (continued on page 9)

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Apply Now for Fall 2019 | museumstudies.tufts.edu (continued from page 7) CONCURRENT SESSIONS and a dramatic, 200-acre landscape. In 2016, 3:45 – 5:15 pm the museum integrated with The Trustees of Reservations. The new museum leadership team Best Practices for Working with has a unique opportunity to reconsider the museum Technologists to Create Visitor Experiences by connecting the past to the future. Museum Belltown staff, including the general manager, curator, and When working with external partners to develop engagement/program manager, will address broad digital experiences, we often have difficulty questions in the context of specific issues and communicating our needs, setting expectations challenges. with vendors, and selecting the right partners. In this interactive workshop we will discuss a Speakers: Guy Hermann, General Manager, Shana Garr, framework for identifying types of digital projects Curator, and Catherine Shortliffe, Engagement Site and appropriate skillsets required, templates Manager, Fruitlands Museum, The Trustees, MA for effective RFPs, a process to select potential providers, and a survey of technology companies in Voices That Bring the Revolution to Life: the New England area. If applicable, come with an Helping Visitors to the National Parks of early-stage project (actual or proposed) for which Boston Find a Role in Commemorating Historic Events you will be hiring external vendors. Join National Parks of Boston rangers as we share Facilitator: David Nuñez, Director of Technology & two programs that engage large numbers of visitors Digital Strategy, MIT Museum, MA in collective, place-based commemorative practice. Grounded in primary sources, reflecting real Diamonds Are Nice, but… Making Museum Bostonians of diverse class, gender, and political Anniversaries Mean Something opinions, these programs allow visitors themselves Grove Ballroom to bring history to life at the Bunker Hill Monument How do we make anniversaries matter? How do and Faneuil Hall. Lend your voice – and vote! - to they serve as launching pads rather than roadblocks? a Town Meeting debate on whether Boston should This session will draw on the experience of panelists support the Non-Importation agreement of 1768. and Sites of Conscience around the world in making Facilitator: Jocelyn Gould, Park Guide, National Parks of anniversaries meaningful growth points. Small groups Boston, Boston National Historical Park will work on specific challenges and opportunities for NEMA and institutions in attendance. Speakers: Eric Hanson Plass, Park Ranger, National Parks of Boston, Boston National Historical Park Facilitators: Braden Paynter, Program Manager, Membership, Methodology, Practice, International SNACK BREAK Coalition of Sites of Conscience, NY; Rainey Tisdale, Independent Curator, MA 3:15 – 3:45 pm Registration Area (continued on page 10) Hosted by

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Stamford 2018 9 (continued from page 9) to improve the visitor experience, offer learning opportunities, increase attendance, and learn what The Future of Museum Education: Revisited to consider when developing exhibits with these Glen 2/3 types of experiences. With great upheaval in the world and museums Facilitator: David Whitemyer, Director of Business during the past three years, it’s time to revisit our Development, Luci Creative, MA 2015 discussion of the role museum educators play in their institutions and the community. As in 2015, we Speakers: Keith Crippen, Director of Design, Museum will turn the typical conference session on its head of Fine Arts, Boston; Matt Kirchman, President by asking you to share your expertise and opinions, & Principal Planner, ObjectIDEA, MA (NEMA shaping the structure and focus of this “unsession” Board); Alana Parkes, Supervisor of Exhibit Content to explore the future of the museum education field. Development, Museum of Science, Boston You’ll identify 4-5 “big ideas” to discuss in small groups, develop steps for action, and share. Museum Teaching Lab: Multiple-Visit Programs as a Site for Experimentation Facilitator: Brooke DiGiovanni Evans, Head of Gallery Glen 1 Learning, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston What are the unique aspects of multi-part Speakers: Paul Fenton, Senior Community Engagement educational programming in museums that can be Coordinator, New England Aquarium, MA; Elisabeth leveraged to create a “teaching lab” environment? Nevins, Principal, Seed Education Consulting, MA; How can these multiple-visit programs encourage Phillippa Pitts, Horowitz Fellow for American Art, experimentation, reflection, evaluation, and new Boston University approaches to museum education across your institution? In this session, hear examples from Let Me Take a Selfie: The Power of Photo multiple-visit programming at the Hood Museum Ops and “Instagrammable Moments” in and the Harvard Art Museums, and reflect on Museums opportunities for “teaching lab” creation at your Aspen 2 own museum. Take a photo with our colorful NEMA Session Facilitators: Correna Cohen, Curatorial Fellow, Division backdrop, and share it with #nema100selfie. We will of Academic and Public Programs, Harvard Art discuss how camera use in museums has changed Museums, MA; Jamie Rosenfeld, Museum Educator, in the last 100 years, and how photo opportunities Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH and social media in museums have the potential

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10 100th Annual NEMA Conference Tickets, Tea & Toilets: Saga of a Welcome “MOVING ON” MENTORING Center Alder CONVERSATIONS Meeting the needs of museum guests is an ongoing 5:30 – 6:30 pm challenge. To provide basic amenities of tickets, tea, Cove and toilets, the Preservation Society constructed a Making plans for moving on? Join NEMA’s welcome center on the grounds of The Breakers. Lifetime Achievement Awardees for informal and Little did we know that the project would take more confidential mentoring conversations about how than seven years to complete, and along the way and when to move on from your current position. spark a controversy that made it into the New York How do you know when it’s time to leave a job you Times. This is a story of perseverance and putting still love, how to leave a job that no longer loves the needs of guests first. you back, or when to plan your own succession? This is an opportunity to hear from those who have Facilitator: Terry Dickinson, Chief of Staff, The experienced a range of exit plans from “surprise!” Preservation Society of Newport County, RI to a thoughtful, strategic process. And of course, Speakers: Trudy Coxe, CEO & Executive Director, The what is said in this session, stays in this session. Preservation Society of Newport County, RI; John Grove, Facilitator: Wendy Lull, Lifetime Achievement Awardee Landscape Architect, Reed Hilderbrand Landscape 2017, President Emerita, Seacoast Science Center, NH Architects, MA; Alan Joslin, Architect, Epstein Joslin Architects, MA Speakers: Jeff Andersen, Lifetime Achievement Awardee 2016, CT; Charles Browne, Lifetime Achievement Power Dynamics and Workplace Culture: A Awardee 2013, VT; Stuart Parnes, Lifetime Achievement Think Tank Awardee 2014, MD; Nina Zannieri Lifetime Grand Ballroom 1 Achievement Awardee 2015, Paul Revere Memorial What are the policies and language that shape your Association, MA workplace culture? How do you navigate power imbalances in your museum? Help colleagues NEWCOMERS RECEPTION examine power dynamics and workplace culture 5:30 – 6:30 pm in museums. Share solutions and ideas for moving Grove Ballroom the field towards a more equitable and transparent Ticket is required. Cash Bar. Conference newcomers future. This think tank is open to all museum get one drink ticket (in registration envelope). workers, volunteers, board members and trustees. Hosted by Facilitators: Scarlett Hoey, Manager of Membership and Development, New England Museum Association, MA; Marieke Van Damme, Executive Director, Cambridge Historical Society, MA (NEMA Board) Speaker: Wyona Lynch-McWhite, Vice President, Arts Consulting Group, MA (NEMA Board)

Whiteness and Museum Education: Developing a Reflective Practice Cove This session focuses on developing a reflective practice, specifically with an eye towards mitigating the potentially harmful impacts of whiteness in the museum education field. In this session, learn about different definitions of whiteness and its resounding impacts on museum education, and then in a workshop format, explore various reflective practices and methods to help with you own work and evaluate your own identity. Facilitator: Hannah Heller, Doctoral Student/Museum WELCOME TO Educator, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY Speakers: Laurie P. Lamarre, Curator of Exhibitions, NEMA’S 100TH! Fairfield Museum & History Center, CT; Chris Newell, OPENING PARTY AT THE Education Supervisor, Mashantucker Pequot Museum & Research Center, MA BRUCE MUSEUM 7:00 – 9:30 pm Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 6:35 pm. Busses will begin leaving at 6:45 pm.

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INDEPENDENT MUSEUM CONCURRENT SESSIONS PROFESSIONALS AFFINITY GROUP 8:45 – 10:15 am BREAKFAST Best Practices: Moving Us Forward or 7:30 – 8:30 am Holding Us Back? Grove Ballroom Grove Ballroom Breakfast will be provided for those who registered for it Best practices are usually seen as signs of in advance and have a ticket. All may attend the meeting. professionalism, but what if “doing right” keeps us The IMP PAG will host its annual breakfast meeting from doing good work—putting internal standards to get reacquainted with fellow independent over impact? Professionals in education, exhibits, museum professionals. This interactive session collections, administration, and planning will each is open to all—from seasoned IMPs who wish to tackle a “best practice” in their fields and propose a further the visibility of the PAG to non-affiliates new “principle” to guide innovative action. interested in the group to those curious about being an IMP. We will be joined by a seasoned Facilitator: Rainey Tisdale, Independent Curator, MA IMP who will share insights during a 10-minute Speakers: Andrea Jones, Founder, Peak Experience tips presentation. At the breakfast, the PAG will be Lab, MD; Margaret Middleton, Independent Exhibit seeking a new co-chairperson. If you are interested Designer, RI (NEMA Board); Monica O Montgomery, in serving the PAG in this way, or know someone Strategic Director, Museum Hue, NY; Elisabeth Nevins, who might be, please come and/or invite other Principal, Seed Education Consulting, MA interested people! Facilitators: Helen Riegle, HER Design, MA; Rebecca Beyond the School Visit: Museum and Migdal, Museum Consultant, MA; Dan Wallis, Owner, District Collaboration The Square Office, MA Aspen 1 The Aldrich and Ridgefield Public Schools evolved REGISTRATION OPEN school visits into “deep dive” programming resulting in district-wide, cross-disciplinary 8:00 am – 5:00 pm curriculum, learning opportunities for educators, Hosted by school memberships, and experiences for students that align with their respective missions. You will hear from museum management, district administrators, and a parent, discovering how the collaboration evolved and how it impacts their respective institutions. You’ll engage in an BOOKSTORE OPEN activity designed to inspire partnerships rooted in reciprocity, shared values, and innovation. 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Facilitator: Michelle Friedman, Head of Education and Hosted by Academic Initiatives, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT Speakers: Rayda Krell, Entomologist (Parent), Western Connecticut State University; Tim Salem, Principal, Scotts Ridge Middle School, Ridgefield Public Schools, CT EXHIBIT HALL OPEN Grand Ballroom Break the Budget Bubble: How to Build and 8:00 am – 5:30 pm Read Budgets Glen 1 WAKE-UP COFFEE AND MORNING Not everyone in a museum deals regularly with budgets. Perhaps you’re planning an exhibition, TREATS IN EXHIBIT HALL applying for a grant, or simply looking to advance Grand Ballroom in your field and hoping to learn more about 8:00 – 8:45 am budgets. From budget creation to maintenance Hosted by Fine Art Security Transport, LLC to evaluation, this session offers insights into understanding budgets that will prove useful for years to come. Facilitator: Rebekah Beaulieu, Director, Florence Griswold Museum, CT (NEMA Board)

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Stamford 2018 13 (continued from page 13) the Gallery’s departments of Advancement and Membership re-introduce the Free Membership Emerging from Financial Distress model, explain its accomplishments since it debuted Elm in 2013, and discuss next steps for maintaining a The twenty-first century has not been kind to successful membership programming. museums; too many find themselves struggling to craft a sustainable financial model. The field needs Facilitator: Brian McGovern, Acting Head of to recognize the warning signs of fiscal distress. And Advancement, Yale University Art Gallery, CT once we understand the need for radical solutions, Speakers: Emily Herberich, Advancement Assistant, we must identify and evaluate alternative options: Linda Jerolmon, Membership Manager, Yale University constriction or expansion, relocation or merger, re- Art Gallery, CT; Jill Westgard, Director of Development, invention or closing. Colleagues who have gone Yale School of Architecture and School of Art (former down this path will share what they’ve learned. Deputy Director of Advancement, YUAG), CT Facilitator: Laura Roberts, Principal, Roberts Consulting, MA Going Out to Welcome In: Authentic Community Engagement through Outreach Speaker: John B. Ravenal, Executive Director, deCordova Glen 2/3 Sculpture Park and Museum, MA; Phelan Reed Fretz, Stepping outside the walls of your home Executive Director, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science institution and engaging with audiences in their Center, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, VT; Mark neighborhoods is one path to authentic community Thompson, Executive Director, Newport Restoration engagement. Through direct programming Foundation and former Executive Director, Portland and building relationships with community Harbor Museum, RI; Todd Smith, Independent Strategic organizations in our cities or towns we can develop Consultant and Former Executive Director, American genuine connections with new audiences. Come Textile History Museum, MA hear three quick stories of this work and then participate in roundtable discussions about where Free Membership at Five Years: A Look we are as a field and where we are going. Back/A Look Forward Aspen 2 Facilitators: Maria Cabrera, Supervisor, Community After five years of steady growth, what are the Outreach, Museum of Science, Boston; Paul Fenton, next steps for the Yale University Art Gallery’s Senior Community Engagement Coordinator, New Free Membership program? Colleagues from England Aquarium, MA; Janella Watson, Associate Director, Providence Children’s Museum, RI

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14 100th Annual NEMA Conference Is that a Picasso in your Dorm Room? Art Uncovering Your Inner Compass: An Lending Programs for Students Interactive Values Workshop to Navigate Belltown your Career and Your Leadership Art lending programs at university museums can Grand Ballroom 1 provide an extraordinary experience for students Focus on using your core values to navigate the and expand art education beyond the museum. twists and turns of your career path with purpose. These unique programs have an expansive reach In this interactive session, you will uncover the across campus, significantly enhancing the student values that drive you at a core level and discover experience through close looking and thought- how to use them as a tool to develop a career provoking conversations. path that aligns with who you are. By becoming Facilitator: Jessica Cloer, Associate Registrar, Rose Art consciously aware of our values, we can use them Museum, Brandeis University, MA intentionally to guide how we make decisions, how we show up as engaged professionals and Speakers: Diane M. Hart, Senior Museum Registrar for authentic leaders, and how we approach a job Collections and Exhibitions, Williams College Museum search in today’s ever-shifting career landscape. of Art, MA; Ariana M. Webber, Registrar, MIT List This self-awareness enables us to build professional Visual Arts Center, MA resilience in a changing job market, and ultimately leads us to more meaningful and fulfilling work. Lincoln in Negative Space: The Intersection of Imaging and Art Facilitator: Tara Young, Independent Museum Alder Professional and Faculty, Tufts University Museum What happens when art and science come together Studies Program, MA to explore a museum mystery? More than a century Speaker: Carole Ann Penney, Strategic Career Coach, ago, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens toward the CPC, Penney Leadership, RI end of his life used a few dabs of plaster to seal shut roughly two dozen sculpture molds. Through the years, the identities of many of these sealed molds had been lost. Until now. The National Park Service at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site and a local hospital developed a partnership to non-invasively peek at what these molds contain. With computed tomography (CT) scanning, radiologists were able to scan the open interior spaces of these molds and then extrapolate the negative space into a positive digital image of what these molds would have been used to cast. The use of 3D printing allowed the team to see for the first time what was hidden in these long-forgotten molds. Come and find out what was inside. Facilitator: Henry Duffy, Museum Curator, Saint- Gaudens National Historic Site, NH Speakers: Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, MS, Chair, Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, NH; Rick Kendall, Superintendent, Saint- Gaudens National Historic Site, NH

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16 100th Annual NEMA Conference MINDFULNESS BREAK continuing shift to create more visitor-centered 10:45 – 11:30 am environments and what that means in the context of today’s society. Using selected pre-readings, Charter Oak Boardroom you will examine and share ideas and examples of Take a few minutes to decompress from your busy inclusion, diversity and access, both physical and conference. Join NEMA Director Dan Yaeger for cultural, to help us understand how they shape, or quiet conversation and a guided meditation. should shape, our work today. Together we will explore the question, “How visitor centered are STORY TELLING SESSION we?” Limited to 25 participants. First come, first Brief Presentations with Big Meaning served. 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Facilitator: Lynn Baum, Principal, Turtle Peak Elm Consulting, MA Speakers: Jan Crocker, Senior Exhibit and Content A Three-Way Success Story Putting the puzzle together: a three-way success Developer, Edward M Kennedy Institute, MA; Janella story. How did a state park, a small museum Watson, Associate Director, Providence Children’s theatre company, and local businesses converge to Museum, RI offer thousands of visitors an added interpretive value to Gillette Castle State Park historic site? Well, The Leadership Partnership: How to Build a this is a 10th anniversary success story. Strong Relationship with your Board Chair Glen 1 Facilitator: Kandie Carle, Producing Artistic Director, Increased attention to the issues of museum East Haddam Stage Company, CT leadership have brought renewed focus to the often- challenging relationship between board chairs and Get Your Niche Museum Out of its Nook museum directors. Despite the knowledge that How can niche museums with limited resources this relationship can be one of the best indicators and specific themes stay relevant, meaningful, and of future success, many museum leaders are connected to the general public’s interests? How not confident in developing this complicated can a museum which cannot expand its physical partnership. Panelists will discuss the steps they walls expand its interpretation better serve the community? Explore a stream of fresh ideas and (continued on page 19) perspectives for innovative programming and timely exhibits to learn how and why a small, historic whaling museum transformed itself. Facilitator: Nomi Dayan, Executive Director, The Whaling Museum & Education Center of Cold Spring Harbor, NY CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

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Stamford 2018 19 PAG Lunch Sessions (12:15 ‑­ 2:15 pm) PAG sessions are open to all, except the Director’s Discussion, limited to museum directors only. If you ordered a box lunch, please collect it from the Exhibit Hall from 12:15-12:45 pm. Sessions begin at 12:45 pm. Children’s Museums and Beyond Historic Sites Cove Glen 1 Join us for an informal lunch and opportunity to Come dish and dine with the most eclectic PAG roundtable with fellow colleagues from children’s at the conference. Historic site professionals of all museums and other institutions with an interest in stripes welcomed. serving family audiences. We welcome colleagues PAG Co-Chairs: Kelsey Mullen, Public Programs from not only traditional children’s museums, but Manager, Newport Restoration Foundation, RI; Emma those of you interested in investigating ways your Bray, Executive Director, American Independence institution can be inspired to include children and Museum, NH family engagements and opportunities. PAG Co-Chairs: Antonio Méndez, Countdown to Membership, Development, Public Kindergarten Educator, Boston Children’s Museum; Relations, and Marketing Beth A. Weller, Director of Operations, The Children’s Aspen 2 Museum, CT Join us for an informal networking lunch with a short, brain-storming session. Come with ideas College and University Museums about what kind of workshop would be useful to Join us for our afternoon off-site session at the you and your colleagues in the coming year. You’ll Fairfield University Art Museum (ticket required). have the opportunity to meet new colleagues and If you ordered a box lunch it will be waiting for you reconnect with old friends, share details about in the lobby at 12:20 pm. current projects, and discuss pertinent issues. PAG Co-chairs: Mary Heath, President, MOVE Curators Marketing, RI; Heather Rockwood, Development and Glen 2/3 Marketing Associate, Newport Historical Society, RI Join us for an informal networking lunch. You’ll have the opportunity to meet new colleagues and The Museum Directors’ Discussion reconnect with others, share details about current Aspen 1 projects, and discuss curatorial questions and This is an opportunity for CEO/Directors to discuss concerns in a casual, relaxed atmosphere. We need concerns and challenges in an open forum setting. new PAG Chairs: if you or someone you know is Our facilitator will keep the conversation moving interested, please attend. while we share ideas and solutions. Whether Facilitator: Kate McBrien, Chief Curator, Maine you are a seasoned or a first-time director, this Historical Society (NEMA Board) discussion will be for CEOs of any size museum. Participation is limited to CEO/Directors only. Educators Facilitator: Sue Goganian, Director, Historic Beverly, Grand Ballroom 1 MA (NEMA Board) Join us as we consider the role of empathy in our work as educators. How does it inform our Registrars and Collections Care Specialists work with the public, how can it transform our (RACCS) institutional cultures, and what does it mean in our Grove Ballroom personal practice? Share ideas, ask questions, and We have a new name! With that also comes connect with a network of peers and mentors who new things for RACCS—formerly known as the can continue to provide inspiration, support, and Registrar’s PAG. Come and join us for an update resources long after we leave the conference. on what we have been up to as we grow our PAG Co-Chairs: Elisabeth Nevins, Principal, Seed community. This will also be an opportunity to Education Consulting; Phillippa Pitts, Horowitz Fellow meet and visit with colleagues, seek advice, get for American Art, Boston University things off your chest, humble brag about what you have been up to and make confessions, should that Exhibitions be needed. Hosted by Elm PAG Co-Chairs: Meredith You’ll have the opportunity to meet new colleagues Vasta, Collection Steward, and reconnect with old friends and share details Peabody Museum of about current projects at this informational Archaeology and Ethnology, networking lunch. There will also be time to discuss MA; Daniel Neff, Curator, future exhibit-related programming and “field-trip” Fairbanks House, MA style meet-ups. PAG Co-Chairs: Laurie P. Lamarre, Curator of Open Networking Lunch Exhibitions, Fairfield Museum and History Alder Center, CT; Betsy Loring, Director of Not affiliated with a PAG hosting a lunch this year? Exhibits and Facilities, EcoTarium, MA Or just want to break bread with old friends or new Hosted by ones? Open seating is available just for you.

20 100th Annual NEMA Conference (continued from page 19) OFF-SITE SESSIONS of programs and staff/student interactions. You 1:25 – 5:15 pm will gain knowledge of a process that will help Welcome to Our House; Access to History define the future of education programs – both Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 1:25 pm. Bus development and assessment – at your museum. leaves promptly at 1:35 pm. Facilitator: Kristin Gallas, Project Manager, Tsongas Facilitators: Maria Cabrera, Supervisor of Community Industrial History Center, MA Relations, Museum of Science, Boston; Hannah Speaker: Susan Diachisin, Museum Education Goodwin, Manager of Accessibility, Museum of Fine Supervisor, Tsongas Industrial History Center, MA Arts, Boston; Nora Nagle, ADA & 504 Coordinator, Museum of Science, Boston Trauma and New England Museums Aspen 2 The 1777 Danbury Raid & The Battle of Recent discussions have centered on the trauma Ridgefield: A Tour with Westport Historical caused by cultural heritage and the trauma that can Society be healed by it. Museums are primary loci for this Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 1:30 pm. Bus heritage; how museums interpret their collections leaves promptly at 1:40 pm. can play a significant role in the trauma of their Facilitators: Ed Hynes, Curator and Sara Krasne, patrons. This session focuses on how New England Archives Manager, Westport Historical Society, CT museums, especially smaller ones and those with connections to others in the country and the world, address and interpret traumatic cultural heritage. (continued on page 25) Facilitator: Kisha Tracy, Associate Professor, English Studies, Fitchburg State University, MA Speakers: Autumn Batista, Undergraduate Student, Fitchburg State University, MA; Erin McGough, Executive Director, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, MA; Alyssa Stanton, Graduate Student, Fitchburg State University, MA; Ashlynn Rickord, Project Director, Cardinal Cushing 75th Anniversary Project, MA; Sally Whipple, Executive Director, BELFRY Connecticut’s Old State House DEMONSTRATION STATION HISTORIC 11:30 am – Noon Promoting and Selling Your Book Grand Ballroom Jane Karker, President, Custom Museum Publishing, ME PAG LUNCHES 12:15 – 2:15 pm (See page 20 for descriptions.)

OFF-SITE SESSION fabrics, 12:20 – 5:15 pm carpeting, An Afternoon at the Fairfield University Art Museum Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 12:20 pm. wallpaper & Bus leaves promptly at 12:30 pm. If you ordered a box lunch it will be waiting for you in the lobby. trimmings Organized by the College and University Museum PAG Presenters: Dr. Christopher B. Steiner, Lucy C. McDannel '22 Professor of Art History & Anthropology, Director of Museum Studies Certificate Program, Connecticut BOOTH 46 College; Dr. Katherine A. Schwab, Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Fairfield University, CT; Dr. Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, Curator of Education, Yale Center for British Art, CT; Carey Mack Weber, Assistant Director, Fairfield University Art Museum, CT

Stamford 2018 21 Quick Glance 3:45 – 5:15 pm WEDNESDAY Concurrent Sessions 6:30 – 7:00 am ƒƒBest Practices for Working with Technologists, Belltown NEMA Fitness ƒƒDiamonds Are Nice, but…, Grove Ballroom ƒƒThe Future of Museum Education: Revisited, Glen 2/3 8:00 – 8:30 am ƒƒLet Me Take a Selfie, Aspen 2 NEMA Conference Preview, Glen 1 ƒƒMuseum Teaching Lab, Glen 1 8:00 am – 5:00 pm ƒƒTickets, Tea & Toilets: Saga of a Welcome Center, Alder ƒƒPower Dynamics and Workplace Culture, Grand Ballroom 1 Registration Open Hosted by Museum Textile Services ƒƒWhiteness and Museum Education, Cove

8:00 – 8:45 am 5:30 – 6:30 pm Welcome Coffee and Morning Treats “Moving On” Mentoring Conversations, Cove Hosted by John Hopkins University 5:30 – 6:30 pm 8:45 – 10:15 am Newcomers Reception Concurrent Sessions Grove Ballroom ƒƒThe Art of Preservation, Alder Hosted by Tufts University Museum Studies Program ƒƒAssessing Museum Impact, Glen 1 7:00 – 9:30 pm ƒƒLarping, Simulation, and Gaming, Belltown Opening Night at Bruce Museum ƒƒThe Museum as a Site of Resistance, Aspen 2 ƒƒThe Museum That Cried “Should,” Cove ƒƒProject Management for Museum Professionals, Glen 2/3 THURSDAY ƒƒRefresh Your Mission, Revitalize Your Brand, Aspen 1 7:30 – 8:30 am ƒƒThe STEAM Dream Team, Grove Ballroom IMP PAG Breakfast, Grove Ballroom ƒƒSuccession Planning: Is Your Organization Prepared?, Elm 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 10:30 am – Noon Registration Open Keynote Session Hosted by Museum Textile Services Grand Ballroom Hosted by Novus Laurus 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Bookstore Open Noon – 5:00 pm Hosted by Cooperstown Graduate Program Bookstore Open Hosted by Cooperstown Graduate Program 8:00 am – 5:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open 12:30 – 1:30 pm 8:00 – 8:45 am Opening Lunch, Grove Ballroom Wake-up Coffee & Morning Treats in Exhibit Hall Directors and Trustees Lunch, Grand Ballroom Hosted by Fine Arts Security Transport Hosted by Qm2 8:45 – 10:15 am 1:25 – 5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions Off-Site Sessions ƒƒBest Practices, Grove Ballroom ƒƒP. T. Barnum’s Legacy in Bridgeport Barnum Museum ƒƒBeyond the School Visit, Aspen 1 ƒƒ50+ years of Ground-Breaking Preservation ƒƒBreak the Budget Bubble, Glen 1 ƒƒEmerging from Financial Distress, Elm 1:45 – 3:15 pm ƒƒFree Membership at Five Years, Aspen 2 Concurrent Sessions ƒƒGoing Out to Welcome In, Glen 2/3 ƒƒBeyond the Keychain, Aspen 1 ƒƒIs that a Picasso in your Dorm Room?, Belltown ƒƒNext Generation of Museum Leaders, Grand Ballroom ƒƒLincoln in Negative Space, Alder ƒƒContinuing Education, Glen 1 ƒƒPuzzling Through the Past, Cove ƒƒHistory Ain’t Dead, Aspen 2 ƒƒUncovering Your Inner Compass, Grand Ballroom 1 ƒƒHow Digital Publishing is Helping, Cove ƒƒLow Pay, No Pay and Poor Pay: Say No Way!, Glen 2/3 9:30 – 10:00 am ƒƒOld-Fashioned, Belltown Demonstration Station ƒƒTales from the Not-so-Ivory Tower, Grove Ballroom ƒƒRethinking Whitehorne House Museum ƒƒTechnology Plan 101, Alder 10:15 – 10:45 am 1:45 – 3:15 pm Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall Story Telling Session, Elm Hosted by POW! Paul Orselli Workshop, Inc. 3:15 – 3:45 pm 10:45 – 11:15 am Snack Break Demonstration Station Hosted by UMass Boston, Public History Program ƒƒCreating Undeniable/Custom Experiences for Museum Visitors

3:45 – 4:45 pm 10:45 – 11:30 am Career Conversation with Nancy Stula Mindfulness Break, Charter Oak Boardroom Charter Oak Boardroom 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Story Telling Session, Elm 22 100th Annual NEMA Conference 10:45 am – 12:15 pm 6:00 – 9:00 pm Concurrent Sessions Evening Events ƒƒCultural Crossroads and Intersections, Grand Ballroom 1 ƒƒFun in Fairfield! A Two-Part Celebration of History and the ƒƒHow Visitor-Centered Are We?, Belltown Arts, hosted by John Hopkins University ƒƒThe Leadership Partnership, Glen 1 ƒƒDirectors and Trustees Reception, hosted by Museum ƒƒMulti-Sensory Experiences, Glen 2/3 Search & Reference ƒƒMuseums in Puerto Rico, Cove ƒƒOpen House and Jeffersonian Dinner at Greenwich ƒƒSo You Want to be a CEO?, Alder Historical Society, hosted by Harvard Museum Studies ƒƒTeaching or Learning?, Aspen 1 ƒƒTrauma and New England Museums, Aspen 2 FRIDAY 11:30 am – Noon 8:00 am – Noon Demonstration Station Registration Open ƒƒPromoting and Selling Your Book Hosted by Museum Textile Services 12:15 – 2:15 pm 8:00 am – Noon PAG Lunches Bookstore Open ƒƒChildren’s Museums and Beyond, Cove Hosted by Cooperstown Graduate Program ƒƒCurators, Glen 2/3 8:00 am – 1:00 pm ƒƒEducators, Grand Ballroom 1 Exhibit Hall Open ƒƒExhibitions, hosted by 42 Design Fab, Elm ƒƒHistoric Sites, Glen 1 8:00 – 8:45 am ƒƒMembership, Development, Public Relations, and Wake-up Coffee & Morning Treats in Exhibit Hall Marketing, Aspen 2 8:45 – 9:15 am ƒƒThe Museum Directors’ Discussion, Aspen 1 Demonstration Station ƒƒRegistrars and Collections Care Specialists (RACCS), ƒƒGathering Guest Feedback in Seamless Ways hosted by Huntington T. Block, Grove Ballroom 8:45 am – 12:15 pm ƒƒOpen Networking Lunch, Alder Off-Site Session 12:20 – 5:15 pm ƒƒThe Revitalization of Mill Hill Historic Park Off-Site Sessions 8:45 – 10:15 am ƒƒAn Afternoon at the Fairfield University Art Museum Concurrent Sessions ƒƒA Tour with Westport Historical Society ƒƒCollaborative Programming for Adults,Glen 2/3 ƒƒWelcome to Our House; Access to History ƒƒCollections Care Information Resources, Aspen 2 2:15 – 2:45 pm ƒƒThe Impact of AI on the Museum Sector, Alder Snack Break in the Exhibit Hall ƒƒ“It Can’t Be Done” to “We Can Do It,” Glen 1 Hosted by Yale University Art Gallery ƒƒLeveraging Limited Assets, Cove ƒƒManaging Big Changes, Belltown 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm ƒƒNEMA’s Next 100 Years, Grove Ballroom Demonstration Station ƒƒPlanning, Luck, and Teamwork, Aspen 1 ƒƒCorn Husk Doll Making Demonstration ƒƒRe-Imagining the Historic House Museum, Grand Ballroom 2:45 – 3:45 pm ƒƒRe-Imagining the Future! Museums for Tomorrow, Elm Career Conversation with Larry Yerdon 9:30 – 10:00 am Charter Oak Boardroom Demonstration Station 2:45 – 4:15 pm ƒƒMakers & Creatives Working with History Outside the Museum Concurrent Sessions 10:15 – 10:45 am ƒƒBuilding Evaluation Capacity, Glen 1 Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall ƒƒCh-ch-Changes, Grove Ballroom 10:45 – 11:15 am ƒƒFinding Your Voice on Social Media, Belltown Demonstration Station ƒƒGetting Started on your Digitization Project, Elm ƒƒTiny Book Show with The Creative Caravan ƒƒHigh Times in the Museum, Aspen 2 ƒƒProtest of Power: When the People Curate, Cove 10:45 am – 12:15 pm ƒƒEthical Concerns for Museums, Grand Ballroom 1 Concurrent Sessions ƒƒTalk Dirty to Me, Aspen 1 ƒƒCreating Better Museum Experiences, Aspen 2 ƒƒWhat Lies Beneath?, Glen 2/3 ƒƒIntegrating Skill Building, Glen 1 ƒƒWorkshop About Workshops, Alder ƒƒMoving Your Department Forward, Glen 2/3 ƒƒOut from the Shadows, Alder 2:45 pm ƒƒPacking, Tracking and Stacking, Elm Massachusetts Education Meet-up, Bedford ƒƒQueers in the Museum, Cove 3:30 – 4:00 pm ƒƒRebranding for Change , Grand Ballroom Demonstration Station ƒƒStop, Collaborate, and Listen: Museum-School ƒƒMental Health Literacy via a Museum-Without-Walls Partnerships, Aspen 1 ƒƒWhat Really is the Museum of the Future?, Grove Ballroom 4:15 – 5:15 pm Exhibit Hall Opening Reception 12:15 – 12:45 pm Exhibit Hall Closing Reception & Raffle Drawing 12:45 – 2:00 pm Annual Luncheon & Annual Meeting Grove Ballroom

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YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY SNACK BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL Ch-ch-Changes: How Museum Staff and 2:15 – 2:45 pm Volunteers Can Create Positive Change Together Grand Ballroom Grove Ballroom Hosted by How do you get from “We’ve always done it this way!” to “Why didn’t we do this sooner?” In this session, MFA staff and volunteers will co-present how to initiate and implement a positive change based on our successful transition from paper- bound to cloud-based resources. We’ll share our DEMONSTRATION STATION process from volunteer inspiration to collaborative 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm execution, including practical steps and honest Corn Husk Doll Making Demonstration reflections. Leave with specific tools to effectively Grand Ballroom bring a “new normal” to your site. Matt Pina (Mashantucker Pequot), Museum Educator, Facilitator: Nicole Claris, Manager of School Programs, Mashantucker Pequot Museum & Research Center, CT Museum of Fine Arts, Boston CAREER CONVERSATION Speakers: Beth Sanders and Anne Short, Gallery Instructors, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston WITH LARRY YERDON 2:45 – 3:45 pm Finding Your Voice on Social Media Charter Oak Boardroom Belltown Talk careers with this year’s This session will provide an overview of how NEMA Lifetime Achievement Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can become Award winner Lawrence J. Yerdon, powerful tools for your organization and connect President and CEO of Strawbery with a greater audience. Banke Museum. Larry earned undergraduate and Facilitator: Megan Olver, Education Assistant & Visitor graduate degrees in history, and an MBA from Services Coordinator, Litchfield Historical Society, CT Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been active Speakers: Sophie Huget, Director, New Britain professionally serving as President of NEMA, on Industrial Museum, CT the Council of the American Association for State and Local History, and as a grant reviewer for the (continued on page 27) Institute for Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for Humanities & the Pew Charitable Trust. Currently, he is a member of the Specialty insurance board of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce. for museums CONCURRENT SESSIONS 2:45 – 4:15 pm

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28 100th Annual NEMA Conference for deeper information. But today, as scientific EXHIBIT HALL OPENING RECEPTION technology and tools advance, museums can 4:15 – 5:15 pm consider using non-invasive ways of gathering Grand Ballroom information on objects, such as DNA sampling, A great way to wind down your afternoon! Join UV, and Backscatter imaging. In this session we us for drinks and delicious hors d’oeuvres in the will explore how technology aided new discoveries action-packed Exhibit Hall, the place to be for on a suit of armor, a painting, and a mummy. The interacting with the latest innovative products process, challenges, and results were unexpected. and services. Get your raffle cards signed for great Facilitator: Katherine Taylor-McBroom, Curator of prizes (drawing is Friday afternoon), chat with Exhibits and Collections, Sullivan Museum and History friends, and relax a bit before your evening starts. Center at Norwich University, VT Cash bar. Speakers: John T. Hart, Jr., Director & Assistant Happy hour indeed! Professor, Sullivan Museum and History Center, Norwich University, VT; Margaret Tamulonis, Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont EVENING EVENTS Workshop About Workshops (Fabrication, That Is!) Directors and Trustees Reception Alder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museums are experts at finding ways to get it done. However, many struggle with limited in- Museum house fabrication or technical capability. Is “I wish Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at we could do this ourselves” a common phrase 5:20 pm. Bus leaves promptly at 5:30 pm. for you? We will discuss fabrication situations at Hosted by a few museums, talk about staffing, do a written capability assessment, and get a better idea of the space needs and real hardware costs in a well- equipped shop. Facilitator: Richard Rich, Exhibit Studio Manager, Fun in Fairfield! A Two-Part Imagine Nation Children’s Museum, CT Celebration of History and the Arts Speakers: Nick Barnett, Director of Wildlife and Exhibits, In conjuction with the Connecticut League of The Children’s Museum, CT; Coral Richardson, History Organizations and CT Humanities. Director, Imagine Nation Children’s Museum, CT Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 5:25 pm. MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION Bus leaves promptly at 5:35 pm. MEET-UP Hosted by 2:45 pm Bedford Curious about the new Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Frameworks and how Open House and Jeffersonian Dinner they’ll affect your school programs? Worried that at Greenwich Historical Society your existing program audience will change? What In conjuction with the Andover Center for History are you doing to adapt your programming? Where’s and Culture. the “civics” in your content? Are districts adopting Ticket holders meet at the main entrance at 5:35 pm. the frameworks in total, or just parts? Join other Bus leaves promptly at 5:45 pm. Massachusetts museums and historic sites to talk about how we can take advantage of the new Hosted by frameworks to make our programs better. Facilitator: Kristin Gallas, Project Manager, Tsongas Industrial History Center, MA

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Adjunct Professor, Simmons College School of Library Remembering Our Past … Saving It for and Information Science Our Future: The Revitalization of Mill Hill Historic Park The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Museum Sector Speakers: Diane Jellerette, Executive Director, Norwalk Alder Historical Society, CT; Samantha Kulish-Fargione, Artificial Intelligence. It’s a concept that holds lots Events/Program Coordinator, Norwalk Historical of promise, generates endless buzz, and is starting Society, CT; David Westmoreland, former Chairman, to make its way into everyday life. In 2016, artificial Norwalk Historical Commission, CT; Daryn Reyman- intelligence went mainstream, and undoubtedly, in Lock, PhD, History & Museum Consultant, CT; the years to come, we will begin to see an increase Scott Wands, Manager of Grants and Programs, CT in experimentation within the cultural space. In Humanities this presentation, we’ll explore some of AI’s most powerful uses related to machine learning, machine CONCURRENT SESSIONS vision, and its impact on galleries, libraries, 8:45 – 10:15 am archives, and museums in the areas of collections, ticketing, and attendance data. Collaborative Programming for Adults of Facilitator: Dan Sullivan, Head of Growth & All Abilities at an Art Museum: Behind the Partnerships, Cuseum, MA Scenes Glen 2/3 (continued on page 32) Museums can support federally-mandated educational priorities while creating a welcoming environment for adults with physical, cognitive, Stamford 2018 31 (continued from page 31) session armed with a toolbox of ideas that you can use at your site. “It Can’t Be Done” to “We Can Do It” Glen 1 Facilitator: Carey Mack Weber, Assistant Director, Challenges, great or small, should not stop one from Fairfield University Art Museum, President, moving forward even in the lowest of times. Facing Connecticut Art Trail many all at once, a small museum picks itself up by Speakers: Stephanie Harris, Director of Operations & the bootstraps while facing possible closure, loss of Marketing, Mattatuck Museum, CT; Tammi Flynn, valuable artifacts, and trying to rebuild from board Director of Marketing, Florence Griswold Museum, to staff to programs to the community believing in CT; Jessica Kuhnen, Collections Manager, Weir Farm it again. National Historic Site, CT Facilitator: Rachel Desgrosseilliers, Executive Director, Museum L-A, ME Managing Big Changes: A Case Study at Old Sturbridge Village Speakers: Todd Smith, Independent Strategic Consultant Belltown and Former Executive Director, American Textile In September 2017 Old Sturbridge Village opened History Museum, MA; Julie Hall Williams, Director of Old Sturbridge Academy, the first public charter Development & Annual Giving, The Trustees, MA school associated with a museum in Massachusetts. This large and ambitious project will be used as the Leveraging Limited Assets: The Power of lens for managing dramatic institutional changes at Collaboration one of New England’s largest outdoor living history Cove museums. What are some lessons to be learned? This session will explore how the Connecticut Art How do you bring staff along for the ride? Trail leverages financial and creative resources to increase traffic and visibility. Representatives from Facilitator: Emily Dunnack, Director of Education, Old four member museums will highlight the programs Sturbridge Village, MA that benefit both the public and the member Speakers: Jim Donahue, CEO, Old Sturbridge Village museums. Topics include a brief history of the Trail, & Executive Director, Old Sturbridge Academy Public communications, social media outreach, and the Charter School, MA; Caitlin Emery-Avenia, Curatorial success of the passport program. 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Re-Imagining the Historic House Museum Grand Ballroom This session is designed to offer three new approaches to making a historic site sustainable and audience focused through information that includes models and lists that participants can bring back to their institution to adapt, evaluate, and use to move their museums forward. Facilitator: Kenneth Turino, Professor, Tufts University, Museum Studies, MA Speakers: Cindy Brockway, Program Director for Cultural Resources, The Trustees, MA; Katherine Kane, Executive Director Emerita, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, CT; Lawrence J. Yerdon, President & CEO, Strawbery Banke Museum, NH

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92900_Villanti_NEMAad_CC17.indd 1 9/29/17 14:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS Holko, Manager of School and Tour Services, Bruce 10:45 am – 12:15 pm Museum, CT; Priya Mohabir, Vice President, Youth Development, New York Hall of Science Creating Better Museum Experiences Through Holistic Planning Out from the Shadows Aspen 2 Alder Designing a museum for maximum visitor Does your collection include a KKK robe? Perhaps engagement requires consideration of the entire you have a scrapbook of greeting cards depicting “visitor experience,” which means before, during, caricatures of various races and ethnic groups. and after the visit. Cohesion in all facets of the Maybe you discovered a letter in your archive museum experience makes it seamless, rewarding attributing a daughter-in-law’s personal failings and comfortable, and produces multidimensional to her ethnicity and religion. If your first instinct is museum success. Mapping the full range of to close the box and put it back on the shelf, we’re experiences that are unified by the visitor asking you to keep it open. Challenging collections experience—from marketing and social media, to like these offer our institutions an opportunity to ticketing and exhibition development, to collections relate to current events and enrich our audience’s development and interpretation— is critical for understanding of and connections to the past. powerful engagement. This session will explore four Session participants will give their own perspective perspectives on this. on how these types of artifacts can be used to facilitate positive conversation and understanding Facilitator: Larissa Hansen Hallgren, Principal, Museum within our communities. Planning & Design, Experience Design/EXP Studios, RI Facilitator: Linda Hocking, Curator of Library & Speakers: Jennifer Little, Principal, Communications, Archives, Litchfield Historical Society, CT Jenn Little Media, RI; Bonnie Stacy, Chief Curator, The Martha’s Vineyard Museum, MA; John Rodman, Speakers: Frank Mitchell, Executive Director of Director Museum Experience, The Preservation Society The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Wadsworth of Newport County, RI Atheneum, CT; Ira Revels, Owner & Principal, Ira Revels Consulting, LLC, CT; Meg Rinn, Cataloger and Archivist, Barnum Museum, CT Integrating Skill Building into Museum (continued on page 36) Programs for Children and Caregivers Glen 1 Join science center and children’s museum staff for hands-on science activities that can be facilitated in The John Nicholas Brown Center for a variety of museum settings. Use these activities to look beyond the product or content goals and Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage’s think about how children can practice important groundbreaking MA program, engaged developmental and science process skills as research, and innovative conferences help they participate. We will also share strategies for engaging caregivers in the process of their students, practitioners, and communities children’s learning and helping them recognize the make art, history, and culture meaningful skill development that is taking place. and accessible. Facilitator: Cory Kelly, Early Childhood Education Associate, Museum of Science, Boston Speakers: Elizabeth Leahey, Assistant Director of INTERESTED IN FINDING Learning Experiences, Discovery Museum, MA; Antonio Méndez, Countdown to Kindergarten Educator, Boston OUT MORE ABOUT US Children’s Museum DURING NEMA 2018?

Moving Your Department Forward through Message us or find us with our John Nicholas Restructuring Brown tote bag and logo stickers — we would Glen 2/3 Staff restructuring can foster departmental love to tell you about our programs. growth and improvement. During this moderated brown.edu/academics/public-humanities discussion, panelists will explore the positive aspects of recent restructures at their organizations John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the lessons they learned. This session will focus on departments that interface with visitors @publichumans [email protected] and you will learn about key factors to a successful restructure. Facilitator: Margaret Glass, Director, Professional Development, Association of Science-Technology Centers, DC Speakers: David Greenham, Associate Director, The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine; Kathleen

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Packing, Tracking and Stacking Elm This session will bring together three institutions that have recently undergone significant renovations and/or collections storage upgrades. One will outline how costs were significantly reduced through judicious use of re-purposed materials. Another will focus on how the collection was cared for and how the institution remained open to the public during the work. The third will summarize how they successfully applied for an IMLS grant. Facilitator: David Dempsey, Former Associate Director, Smith College Art Museum, MA Speakers: Elizabeth Burgess, Collections Manager, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, CT; Elizabeth Sharpe, Co-Executive Director, Historic Northampton, MA; Christopher Shields, Curator of Library and Archives, Greenwich Historical Society, CT

Queers in the Museum Cove Join a group of queer museum workers as we share our experiences and discuss strategies to make museums more welcoming workplaces for queer staff members. This session will be an opportunity THE Cooperstown cgpmuseumstudies.org for queer museum workers to meet, talk, and learn G R A D U ATE 607.547.2586 from each other about how to improve the work PROGRAM environment. Allies are also welcome to attend and learn from queer session leaders and attendees. Facilitator: Margaret Middleton, Independent Exhibit Designer, RI (NEMA Board) Speakers: Alexander Lussenhop, Research and Evaluation Associate, Museum of Science, Boston; Lauraberth Lima, Education Coordinator, Museum of the City of New York, NY; Jamie Uretsky, Curator, New Bedford Art Museum, MA

Rebranding for Change in Small to Midsize Museums Grand Ballroom When is it time to rebrand? How do you convince the board, brainstorm a new name, change how the community sees your institution? What’s involved, and what are the risks and benefits? Recent ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS rebranding projects at Gore Place, Highfield Hall, FOR BETTER MUSEUMS Historic Beverly, and the Metropolitan Waterworks Mechanical | Electrical | Plumbing | Fire Protection Museum provide a window into the process. | Construction Administration | Technology Design | Energy Analysis | Sustainable Design | Commissioning Panelists will discuss four different rebranding projects at museums with budgets that range from 275K to 1M. Facilitator: Sue Goganian, Director, Historic Beverly, MA (NEMA Board) Speakers: Peter Franklin, Executive Director, Highfield Hall, MA; Emily Robertson, Marketing Manager, Gore Place, MA; Suanna Selby Crowley, President, MAS/ Robbins Museum of Archaeology, MA

36 100th Annual NEMA Conference Stop, Collaborate, and Listen: Museum- ANNUAL LUNCHEON School Partnerships Aspen 1 AND ANNUAL Looking to build a partnership with other MEETING museums or schools? Join the panel and small 12:45 – 2:00 pm group discussion led by Place-Based Boston and Grove Ballroom the Boston Public Schools to share their successes, Continue the celebration of NEMA’s 100th lessons learned, and ongoing challenges of their anniversary. This year we’ll recognize winners three-year partnership. You will actively engage in of the 2018 NEMA Excellence Awards and conversations that explore efforts to establish the commemorate the career of Larry Yerdon, NEMA’s city as a classroom, reveal different and hidden 2018 Lifetime Achievement Awardee. Hear about narratives relevant to today, and work effectively as NEMA’s latest initiatives, then help elect the a collective. next NEMA board and officers during a brief Facilitator: Elisabeth Colby, Youth and Visitor annual meeting before heading home from a great Engagement Coordinator, National Parks of Boston, conference. Boston National Historical Park Speakers: Carrie Barrows, Teacher, EMK Health LIFETIME Academy Careers, MA; Natacha Scott, Director History ACHIEVEMENT and Social Studies, Boston Public Schools; Jodie AWARD Smith, Former Manager of Academic Programs, USS We are honored to present Constitution Museum, MA the 2018 NEMA Lifetime Achievement Award to our What Really is the Museum of the Future? good friend and colleague, Global Perspectives Lawrence J. Yerdon. Larry, Grove Ballroom President & CEO of Strawbery Banke Museum in When discussing museums of the coming century, Portsmouth, NH, has had a distinguished career conversation is often around technology, or in museums, an active supporter of NEMA its around a certain type of building, or a certain President, and has mentored countless museum kind of engagement. But what would it mean if professionals as they built their own careers in we envisioned museums of the future as nimble, the field. passionate, committed human rights organizations that use the tools of museums (exhibits, archives, Please join us at the NEMA Awards Luncheon to programs) without being overly encumbered by the recognize Larry’s achievements and contributions. standards that sometimes appear to hold us back? Facilitator: Linda Norris, Global Networks Program Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, NY Speakers: Justine DiMayo, Director, Act for the Disappeared, Lebanon THANK YOU! EXHIBIT HALL CLOSING RECEPTION A big thank you to our Registrar and AND RAFFLE PRIZE DRAWING Collections Care Specialists (RACCS) and Grand Ballroom Conservators PAG! On November 6, they held 12:15 – 12:45 pm the first-ever "Collection Corps" service project Don’t miss this special opportunity to explore the at the Shelton History Center in Shelton, CT. services and products in the Exhibit Hall. Will you win one of the wonderful raffle prizes generously Thank you to all of the volunteers for taking donated by our exhibitors? Perhaps you’ll win a part! registration to next year’s conference! Bring your signed raffle card and join in the fun. A special thank you to our local hosts: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Barnum Museum Bruce Museum of Art and Science Fairfield Museum & History Center Fairfield University Art Museum Greenwich Historical Society Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum Norwalk Historical Society Westport Historical Society

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