Annual Report April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 Annual Report April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020 Vision Promoting excellence Preserving and presenting cultural and natural heritage Mission Innovative training Advocacy and responsive leadership Resources Core Values Accessibility Table of Contents Respect for diversity AMM Supporters, Council, Staff ................... 1 Innovation Leadership Messages ...................................2 Integrity Financial Highlights ....................................... 3 Responsive Leadership & Advocacy ............ Lifelong learning 4 Innovative Training........................................ 5 Pride and Professionalism Promoting Excellence ................................... 5 Cultural Stewardship Program ......................6 Collections Management Database .............. 6 Promotion of Museums ................................. 7 Resources ..................................................... 7 Our Members ................................................ 8 Member Reports ........................................... 11 In Memoriam ................................................. 16 Audited Financial Statements ....................... 17 AMM Supporters | Council | Staff Supporters Barry Dyck Murray McKenzie Stephanie Frazer Thomas McLeod Province of Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage Leona Herzog Mennonite Heritage Village Ivan Franko Museum New Iceland Heritage Museum Government of Canada Canadian Heritage Seana Jones Tom Nickle Museums Assistance Program Sharain Jones Noventis Credit Union Young Canada Works Matthew Komus Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre The Winnipeg Foundation Bob Laidler Doreen & R.S. Oliver Donors Doris Lemoine Leslie Poulin Maralyn MacKay-Hussein 38 Service Battalion Combat Service Prairie Theatre Exchange Support Museum Manitoba Centennial Centre Pierrette Boily Corporation Andrea Reichert Manitoba Children's Museum Lorne Roder Monique Brandt Manitoba Crafts Museum & Library Royal Winnipeg Ballet Bridgeport Office Solutions Jo Bunka Manitoba Electrical Museum & Kelsey Smith Education Centre Beryth Strong Canadian Museum for Human Rights Manitoba Museum Tolstoi Heritage Centre Kathleen Christensen Manitoba Transit Heritage Association Costume Museum of Canada Travel Manitoba Dave McDowell Jane Dalley Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival David McInnes Winnipegosis Historical Society Jo-Anne Drewniak Council | Executive Executive Councilors Central Region: Leslie Poulin President: Randy James (effective 9/21/19) Thomas McLeod (to 9/21/19) Eastern Region: Barry Dyck Vice-President: Kelsey Smith (effective 9/21/19) Interlake Region: Julianna Roberts Randy James (to 9/21/19) Northern Region: Thomas Heine Secretary: Alanna Horejda Parklands Region: Theresa Marie Deyholos Treasurer: Pam McKenzie Western Region: Rhonda Hinther Past-President: Thomas McLeod (effective 9/21/19) Winnipeg Region: Davide Montebruno (effective 9/21/19) Kathleen Christensen (to 9/21/19) Eric Napier Strong (to 9/21/19) AMM Staff Executive Director: Monique Brandt Training/Communications Coordinator: Beryth Strong Database Intern: Kiersten McLeod Cultural Stewardship Program Conservator: Jane Dalley AMM Annual Report 1 April 1, 2019—March 31, 2020 Leadership Messages Randy James, years, and others for a short time, but sessions and other steps to the everyone seemed to be trying to planning. Council President ensure the organization’s continuing success. And then I got to know the We continued to plan the 2020 Trivia I would like to staff and heartbeat of the organization Night, only to be stopped by COVID- begin by (Monique, Beryth, and Kierston), and 19. At the end of March many things thanking all the they seemed to have a lot of patience seemed to grind to a halt and our Trivia members and with me as I found my way. night was no exception. We’re hoping council for we can hold it later this fall. When I became President, I did have endorsing me for My other thought was more of a the position of some thoughts regarding the organization and its progress. In the personal venture. I wanted to travel the President of the province this year and visit all the Association of last couple years, changes had been made that affected the potential member museums in the province. I Manitoba have come to appreciate the Museums. operation of the AMM. One such example is the Province’s Heritage enthusiasm of everyone I have met at I reached out to the organization to Trust Program; an endowment fund all the museums. As a result of the complete the Certificate Program in which will generate money on an pandemic, this will have to be put off Museum Practice. As I attended annual basis. until the province gets COVID under classes, I became very impressed by control. Another thought was Strategic the others at the class. Everyone As we move forward, there is no vision seemed to represent their museum Planning for the next 5 years. The council gathered at the Norwood Hotel, of what we will have as we come out of well and they were very professional in this, but I have little hesitation in saying their dealings with others. and with Kevin Freedman (The Governance Guru) as our facilitator, an that with the Staff, Council and About a year after, I was invited to join excellent interaction took place. All Members, I am sure we can all get the council. The council was very members of the council appeared through this together. If you need a impressive as some had been there for involved and looking forward to further hand with something, or just want advice, please give us a call. Monique Brandt, packing up our offices to work from We continue to work with the other home. National Provincial Territorial Museum Executive Director Associations (PTMAs), on training Before work was halted we were busy. initiatives, advocacy, and research The fiscal We have been meeting with the other such as the Albert Museum year 2019- Provincial Heritage Agencies (PHAs) Association lead Museums for Me. 2020 was on projects and issues of mutual shaping up to interest. We are working on a sector- We are actively involved in social be one of the wide Manitoba Heritage Summit to be media through Facebook, Twitter, and best years held in the fall of 2020. two Instagram accounts, one for the Association, one for the 150 for 150 ever for the Thanks to Canadian Heritage’s Association of online exhibit: A Museum Called Museums Assistance Program and Manitoba. Manitoba Young Canada Works, the Manitoba Museums. Heritage Grants Program, and The Earlier this year we started the process We supported our members through Winnipeg Foundation, I am pleased to of renewing our strategic plan. We will our training programs, we gave say that the first phase our collective be surveying our members and will valuable and timely conservation database project was fully funded! We continue this work to map the AMM’s advice through our Cultural continue to work on this project with future Stewardship Program (CSP), we the five partner museums: Dalnavert Museum & Visitors’ Centre, Manitoba Recently the International Council of started work on an important new Museums (ICOM) attempted to initiative – a collective database – and Crafts Museum & Library, Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame & Museum, redefine what a museum was. The we were on track to finish the year with process is ongoing, but one thing is a surplus. And just like everyone else Ogniwo Polish Museum, and Transcona Museum. clear, tomorrow’s museum will look in the world our progress was stopped different. As different issues and due to Covid-19. The first stage of the database project challenges come to the forefront, AMM Two days before our biggest annual – migrating existing databases from Council and Staff will be there to help fundraiser, Trivia Night, the first case the five partner museums to our new our members face these challenges. was announced in Manitoba. The next Collective Access database – is almost day, more cases. We scrambled and done. In future phases we hope to add cancelled our sold-out Trivia Night, we more museums to the collective and to quickly cancelled our two Training add a public facing component to the Program courses that were to be held collective database. later in the month, and we started AMM Annual Report 2 April 1, 2019—March 31, 2020 Financial Highlights All Revenues & All Expenses for All Departments The fiscal year 2019-2020 was on by the federal wage subsidy of $3,400. Like other service organizations, most track to finish with a reasonable of our expenses are incurred for surplus. Federal and other grants were up over people to provide our services: last year due to our Database project. instructors to teach our courses, a Unfortunately, we were forced to close Provincial Heritage Agency funding, conservator to offer our CSP, and, of down mid-March due to Covid-19. We along with provincial funding for our course, staff to support our Training, had to cancel our major fundraiser of Training Program and Cultural CSP, and Database programs, to run the year – Trivia Night – and two of our Stewardship Program (CSP) remain our conference and fundraisers, and to courses. This resulted in a net loss of the same as they have been for over provide all our other membership about $6,400. This was offset in part 10 years. services. Training Revenues & Expenses Cultural Stewardship Program Revenues & Expenses Revenues & Expenses AMM Annual Report 3 April 1, 2019—March 31, 2020 Responsive Leadership | Advocacy Conference 2019 The theme was Where do we Go From The AGM included the