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OMA meet up at Cascade Locks Historical Museum, August 2022

OMA supports regional meet ups across the state, which can be casual or more structured.

Help us plan meet ups across the state

We're looking for folks to host OMA meet ups across the state.

OMA meet ups are informal and engaging opportunities to connect and network with fellow professionals in the museum world. They are an opportunity for people to share successes and struggles, pitch new ideas and ask questions, and to find support and inspiration. Above all though, we want to create a space for museum and museum-adjacent professionals to have the time to simply meet and have fun! 

Meet ups are what you make them! You can choose one of the following formats (or make up your own!):

  • Host a meet up at your museum, business, or organization. This gives you the opportunity to promote your own organization by also providing access to your space and exhibits for self-guided or guided tours when possible.
    • It can be super informal with a bowl of chips and a bottle of soda for folks.
    • You can offer a bigger/fancier spread by asking local businesses to provide donations or sponsorships. Also, OMA has limited funds for organizations to provide food and drink.
  • Host a meet up at a local eatery, café, pub, or bar with a designated space for attendees, and folks can purchase their own food and drinks. Maybe the business could offer a discount for OMA folks.
  • Host an online meet up via OMA's Zoom platform where attendees can join from the comfort of their home with their own food and drinks. Want to gather together groups of like-minded individuals? You can manage a meet up for folks interested in collections, educators, volunteers, exhibits, social media, digitization, NAGPRA, packing, shipping and storage, or anything else.
If you are interested in hosting a meet up, please email us at connect@oregonmuseums.org.

upcoming meet upS

Directors & Senior Staff Affinity Group

August 21 | 9-10am | Online | RSVP

Development & Marketing Affinity Group

August 21 | 12-1pm | Online | RSVP

Collections & Exhibitions Affinity Group

This group will meet in person at the annual conference in Coos Bay on September or 9 or 10 - more details to come!

Emerging Museum Professionals Affinity Group

September 20 | 12:30-1:30pm | Online | RSVP

Learn more about Affinity Groups here

past meet ups

2024 Meet Ups

July 16 - Pint Night a.k.a. Bingo and Brews, Portland

June 13 - Portland

February 29 - Salem

2023 Meet Ups

May 24 - Independence

May 18 - Eugene

May 12 - Corvallis

March 20 - Eugene

March 23 - Portland

2022 Meet Ups

October 2022 - OMA in-person Meet Up at the WMA Annual Meeting

September 19, 2022 - Educators Virtual Meet Up

August 28, 2022 - OMA in-person meet up at Cascade Locks Historical Museum

March 30, 2022 - OMA Virtual Meet Up: Supporting volunteers

February 24, 2022 - OMA Virtual Meet Up: Advocacy

2021 Meet Ups

October 14, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Collections Management

July 23, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Reopening

May 17, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Tours at the ZMA (Zoom Museum of Art)

March 25, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Checking Volunteer Vitals

January 21, 2021 - OMA Lunchtime Meet Up- Zoom

2020 Meet Ups

October 21, 2020 - OMA Happy Hour Meet Up - Zoom

July 23, 2020 - OMA virtual Summer Soirée Meet Up - Zoom

2019 Meet Ups

November 7, 2019 - PDX Museum Meet Up - Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR

October 29, 2019 - Museums of the Gorge Meet Up - Klickitat, WA

September 26, 2019 - PDX Museum Meet Up - World of Speed, Wilsonville, OR 

September 15, 2019 - Meet Up and no-host dinner, John Day, OR

June 13, 2019 - PDX Museum Meet Up, Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Hillsboro, OR

April 23, 2019 - Meet Up after Arts & Culture Advocacy Day, Salem, OR

April 15, 2019 - Meet up with SWOMA - Flotsam & Jetsam - Determining the importance of shipwrecks and their debris on Oregon's beaches, Florence, OR



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