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2005 Annual Conference
Yakima Valley Museum
Yakima, Washington
June 15 - 17, 2005
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2105 Tieton Drive
Yakima, WA 98902
Washington Museum Association
Staying the Course Through the Drought Years:
Change, Process, and Community Engagement
WMA Annual Conference
June 16–17, 2005
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
8:00 Registration (Registration continues throughout conference) Yakima Valley Museum
9:00-10:00 Welcoming Remarks
• Barbara Moe, President WMA
• John Baule, Yakima Valley Museum Director
• Mary Skinner, State Representative
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address:
Whodever Throwd that Ded Cat on My Yard...
Brian Crockett, Co-Founder of SITES’ Museum On Main Street Program
Brian will explore museums’ perpetual thirsts, especially in our current drought of public funding. He’ll use story, statistics, and slander to praise and admonish museums of all sizes. He’ll suggest two reliable rain makers—improved community engagement and a little mad-as-hell activism—as the best means to quench our thirst.  Brian will help renew the public case for museums’ necessity and celebrate the very best of our noble purpose.
11:30-1:15 Lunch Program
Large-Scale Renovation In Phases:
The Yakima Valley Museum, Where Change, Process, and Community Engagement Is Never-Ending...
Yakima Valley Museum’s unintentionally extra-long-term remodel/renovation began thirteen years ago with the hiring of its first professionally-trained director. Five years later in 1997, at the WMA Conference in Yakima, the theme was “Enough Talk, Let’s Do It!” And we did. And we’re still doing it. The end of the project keeps slipping into the near future, just out of reach, as we continue to achieve our long-term goals and fulfill our mission.
—John Baule, Andy Granitto, David Lynx, and Michael Siebol of Yakima Valley Museum
1:30-3:00 Concurrent Sessions
Focus on the Columbia Basin: Expressing Regional Identity through an Interpretive Network
How can an integrated network of interpretive facilities help piece together the identity of a region? Jones & Jones of Seattle has designed a wide range of interpretive projects in the scenic Gorge that help tell the story of the Columbia landscape, people, changes over time, and future river visions (including Hanford Reach National Monument Heritage and Visitor Center, New Wanapum Heritage Center, The Confluence Project, Spokane Gorge Park, and National Ice Age Floods Geologic Trail).
—René Senos, Mario Campos, Bruce Arnold, and Anne-Emilie Gravel: Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, Seattle
Environment Scanning: First Step to Organizational Effectiveness
Heritage organizations exist in an increasingly competitive world. To be competitive, organizations must be effective. The first step toward organizational effectiveness is assessment of how available resources are used. This workshop will introduce participants to an assessment tool—environmental scans—through use of a case study and prepare them to apply it to their institutions.
—William S. Hanable
Collection Planning: An Emerging Best Practice for Museums 
This session will provide a look at the new movement to assess the scope of your collection and to plan creatively for its growth. Speakers will provide case studies reflecting stages of their plan development and creative techniques for the process.
—Janis Olson (Curator of Collections, Whatcom Museum Bellingham), Lisa Hill-Festa (Curator of Collections, Nordic Heritage Museum), Barbara Moe (Curator, Naval Undersea Museum), Rebecca L. Hutchins (former Collections Manager, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis)
3:00 Silent Auction Begins
3:00-6:00 Bid on auction items, tour Yakima Valley Museum exhibits, visit other local museums, and arrive early at the Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center to tour the museum and grounds before...
6:00-8:30

yakama nation cultural centerAn Evening at the Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center
On June 10-12 of 2005 the Yakama Nation will celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the Treaty of 1855, which united the 14 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. Right now, even as you read this, the Cultural Heritage Center is bustling with activity in preparation for this grand event. Less than a week after the celebration, the Cultural Heritage Center will be hosting an evening of the WMA Annual Conference, and the staffs of the Yakama Nation Museum and Heritage Inn Restaurant have prepared a special evening for us.

Traditional dance, storytelling, and a gourmet salmon dinner await you in the grand Winter Lodge banquet hall, guaranteed to leave you happy and full.

Arrive early and explore the Yakama Nation Cultural Heritage Center, which includes a Museum, Gift Shop, Museum Book Store, Library, Movie Theatre, Teepee RV Park, Restaurant, and the Winter Lodge. The afternoon conference sessions in Yakima will end early so that you can rush on down to Toppenish (about 15 miles south of Yakima). The Museum and Gift Shop will stay open until 6 P.M. for conference attendees.


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