WMA2009


Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

[Note: The folks in San Diego just keep sending along notes about favorites in their town!  Whatta great place to be.  The latest is from Tim Murray, Director, Exhibits Department at San Diego Natural History Museum]
by Tim Murray
As a long-time resident of San Diego, I thought I would share some of my favorite places in San Diego with you.
View - Cabrillo National...
Photo courtesy of the Museum of Photographic Arts.

by Stephanie Weaver
What does your museum look and feel like to people with learning disabilities? I'm happy to provide two great articles written by educational consultant Paul Gabriel for free download. Paul was the guest editor of an excellent issue of WestMuse in 2007 that covered a range of learning disabilities and how they affect the...
submitted by Stephanie Weaver on behalf of Wendell Eckholm
Photos courtesy of the Firehouse Restaurant


Join your fellow conference attendees for a relaxing evening of networking, music, and food at the West Coast Shipper's Party.  The free party will be held on Tuesday evening October 27 from 5:30 to 9:30 PM on the rooftop deck at the Firehouse American Eatery, which is just a ten minute...
submitted by Stephanie Weaver on behalf of Victoria L. Hamilton
The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture welcomes all participants to the Western Museums Association conference. Whether this is your first visit to San Diego or you’ve experienced San Diego many times before, we know you will be able to find fun, new, and exciting experiences throughout San Diego County!
October is...
by Rosalind Bedell, Program Co-ChairJudging from recent comments it seems that while many of you may love social networking and find it useful (and who am I to disagree – I’m already excited about the eateries in San Diego), that nothing quite replaces the face to face experience of a conference. I’m sure you have taken a glimpse at the preliminary program for the WMA conference in October – see...
by Valerie Huaco
Back in November when the WMA program committee convened in San Diego to review session proposals, we took some time to discuss what ideas had been knocking around in our collective heads. What’s on the tip of our museological tongue, as it were. Many good sessions were born of that conversation, including On Board with Innovation, Weathering the Storm: Foundations Respond to the...
By Stephanie Weaver
We've been working on new tools to help you plan your visit to San Diego for WMA, October 25-29. Click HERE to see the interactive restaurant map. It's an open, public map, so local folks can add their own suggestions for eateries near the Catamaran.

Green are vegetarian, red are regular restaurants, the hotel is the blue locator, while the pushpin is a well-known coffeehouse...

San Diego Highlight - Murals at Chicano Park: Founding of Mexico City, Tony de Vargas, Vidal Aguirre, Felipe Adame. The painting on the ceiling of the kiosk illustrates the foundation myth of Tenochtitlan/Mexico City.

June is busting out all over! *humming*
June...Can you believe it? I know that most of us have been pretty distracted the first half of this year, but I admit I'm pretty excited...

Slide from Maxwell Anderson's MW2009 pres. - "Help visitors apply that memory and empathetic response to everyday life"

By James G. Leventhal
There’s been a lot of back channel recently about the relevance and even necessity of professional conferences in this perpetually, overwhelmingly networked world.
So I thought this was a good forum to further the discussion.  Of the blogs, colleagues and...
By Stephanie Weaver
USS Midway at Night

The Host Committee met [May 11] at the amazing Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum to discuss ongoing plans for the annual meeting. We are excited to welcome our colleagues from the Western states. Midway will be host to the Wednesday night Masquerade Party (October 28, 2009). The Midway is one of San Diego's premiere party venues. We're looking forward to...

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