11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Learning Format: Conversation
This roundtable discussion will foster dialogue related to art museums with affiliated outdoor spaces (landscape settings, sculpture gardens, or parks). Focused breakout discussions will consider how to ensure that outdoor space use promotes deeper connections with visitors, staffing, interpretation, and programming practices, the potential for revenue, and how...
Learning Format: Active Learning
5 Museum industry themed challenges
4 Teams
3 Hosts
2 Much Fun!
1 Winner
Join a team and join the fun. This whirlwind competition will pit museum professionals against each other in a range of interesting and interactive games. 
Learning Format: Passive Learning
Bishop Museum recently began a multi-phase program called the Pacific Pipeline, to build internal capacity and support institution-wide implementation of Indigenous practices, and to collaboratively share how these practices can be upheld across the museum field. In this session, the program’s co-leads from collections and public program teams discuss the...
Learning Format: Active Learning
If the thought of advocating every day sounds exhausting, this session will help you approach it from a different angle. At its core, successful advocacy is simply articulating throughout the year why your museum adds value to your community. We will share resources and tools available from state museum associations to help museums of any size advocate for...
Learning Format: Passive Lerning
An enlightening exploration demonstrating that good design principles can coexist harmoniously with conservation requirements. Unveil lighting's narrative power in conveying each artifact's story.  In our quest to meet conservators' expectations, we question whether one-time spot measurements are sufficient or if calculating exposure over time unlocks innovative...
Learning Format: Active Learning
The Empathetic Museum specializes in increasing organizational and individual capacity for empathetic practice. After many years of consulting, the Empathetic Museum team has co-designed a workbook
This session will run until 12:30pm
Learning Format: Passive Learning
This session will explore different methods and processes for not only the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the exhibit design process, but how to elevate and center their voices in the heart of exhibition storytelling. Through a series of in-progress case studies, we will discuss strategies for authentic, deep partnerships and outreach, dialog, and goal...
Learning Format: Active Learning
Historically, museum people have determined content, objects, interpretation, and intended visitor experience. It’s formulaic, which is why ‘creation for’ instead of ‘with’ has been employed for so long. The fear that loosening grip on the controls allowing our “end users” to drive us off a cliff is real and mired in colonial control strategies. We’ll challenge...
Learning Format: Conversation
Aligning with the global shift toward healing and creating well and empathic futures, the session centers on case studies of arts and well-being programs at the Wing Luke Museum and Path with Art on developing art and wellness hybrid methodologies, evaluation, and partnerships with public health, mental health, primary care, economic development, local government.
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