This webinar addresses interpretive training – what it is, why it's effective, and how using it imparts a message to your guests that they can share with others. You'll learn what interpretive options are available and what it means to have an interpretive plan. Join us to gain insight about why an interpretive plan is beneficial, plant the seeds for developing one at your institution, and come away with tips, tricks and handy resources.

Presenter: Stacy Nalley, Public Outreach Coordinator, Oregon State Capitol and OMA board member

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Join our panel of experts in the Oregon museum community to hear about how to work with consultants: how to find them, fund them, work with them and get the expert support you want. We'll also hear from a small, all-volunteer museum on their experience with consultants.

Presenters

• Kyrie Kellet, Mason Bee Interpretive Planning
• Alan Ransenberg, Alchemy of Design
• Kathleen Sligar, Oregon Military Museum
• Patti Ball, Jefferson Historical Society and Museum

Sponsored by Indow.

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Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, CFRE, for a presentation focused on actionable solutions to common fundraising problems. Chad will reveal the most common barriers to effective fundraising at the museums that he has worked with and provide tips for overcoming them. Attendees will also be given free access to document samples and templates which will help to fast track the implementation of these solutions. Ample time will be reserved for questions so that attendees can also pick Chad’s brain for solutions to their “not so common” fundraising challenges.

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Presenter: Heather Christenbury, Curator, Coos History Museum

When it comes to museum pest management strategies, preventative care is the safest and most cost-effective option. Whether writing your first pest management policy or simply looking for methods to protect your collections from pests, this webinar will cover how to write a basic integrated pest policy, address pest concerns, and how to keep museum staff and volunteers invested in the process.

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Join Visiting Media (True Tour) for a webinar on creating a virtual tour for your museum. We'll review pros and cons of virtual tours, how to plan for it, what to include, and how to integrate it into your museum's online presence.

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Presenter: Rachael Cristine Woody, Rachael Christine Consulting, LLC

In this online webinar, museum expert and consultant Rachael Cristine Woody will offer strategies and solutions for common challenges, including how to identify your unique CMS needs, how to create CMS specifications that lead you to the right fit, and importantly, how to fund it.

Sponsored by Lucidea

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See the recordings and resources from the 2021 conference. Available for OMA members only. You must be logged in to view.

The Oregon Historical Society’s roots stretch deeper than most cultural heritage institutions in the Pacific Northwest. With a history of over 122 years of active collecting, it holds one of the largest archival and museum collections in the region. OHS’ legacy of acquisition and description is skewed and narrowed by its origins as a pioneer memorial association. It is incumbent on OHS leadership and staff to confront and address the various expressions of this legacy. Staff members from several departments will discuss ways they incorporate radical empathy in the work they do to address the issue. The panel was recently presented as part of the Northwest Archivists 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting.

Presenters:

• Laura Cray, Digital Services Librarian at OHS
• Eliza E. Canty-Jones, Editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly and Director of Community Engagement at OHS
• Nicole Yasuhara, Deputy Museum Director at OHS
• Erin Brasell, Managing Editor of the Oregon Historical Quarterly and Managing Editor and Co-founder of Dear Oregon, OHS’s blog
• Dana Miller is Collection Management Librarian at OHS
  

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Will the last person leaving please turn off the lights? How to properly disband a museum and liquidate its assets. April 2021

Presenters: 

• Joseph Govednik, Museum Director, Cowlitz County Historical Museum
• R. Lewis Ferguson, former Director, World of Speed Museum (now closed)
• Jenn Clemo, Director of Nonprofit Leadership & Resources, Nonprofit Association of Oregon

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced some museums to permanently close, presenting their staffs and boards with unexpected legal and ethical questions about what would become of their assets. This program will use examples from shuttered museums to address how to go about dissolving a collection and liquidating its assets. Resources from museum workers and state agencies will help institutions take steps now to prepare for an unexpected closure in the future.

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Listening to help integrate values-based equity: Guest curator Stephanie Littlebird in conversation with Five Oaks Museum. February 2021

Presenters

• Stephanie Littlebird Fogel (Grand Ronde, Kalapuya) is a visual artist, professional writer and curator of “This IS Kalapuyan Land” at Five Oaks Museum.
• Molly Alloy and Nathanael Andreini are Co-directors at the Five Oaks Museum.

Five Oaks Museum uses a values-centered and heart-centered approach to their work. They have switched to a guest curator model, allowing curators to decide the exhibition, which, in turn, has implications for how that exhibition affects the structure of the museum.

You don’t do equity in bits and pieces. By collaborating with others to explore how art, culture and history shape the past and influence the future, Five Oaks helps visitors connect to a collective local history made up of community voices and the important stories they tell. Join Stephanie, Molly and Nathanael as they talk about the process of curating and exhibiting “This IS Kalapuyan Land.” Bring your own personal value(s) you hold close and discuss how to institutionalize them in your museum and work.

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Moving Forward with NAGPRA Virtual workshop. November 2020

Presenters:

• Deana Dartt, Principal, Live Oak Consulting
• Pamela Endzweig, Anthropological Collections Director, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon
  
• Robert Kentta, Cultural Resources Director, Siletz Tribe
• Dana Whitelaw, Executive Director, High Desert Museum
  

This 3.5 hour workshop focuses on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) enacted in 1990. The law’s precise impact on museums will be examined. Panel members with specialized NAGPRA knowledge will share specific information—compliance requirements, collection evaluation, outreach to Native tribes—and share their tribe's and museum's experience with the repatriation process. Participants will come away with a better understanding of NAGPRA and how you can put these tools to use in your organization.

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