Thursday, June 17, 2010
8:00AM – 11:00AM Registration Daylight Gallery
8:00AM Meet & Greet; Beverages, Continental Breakfast; Vendor Set-up Main Gallery
9:00AM – 10:15AM Welcome and Awards Temporary Gallery
Jennifer Kilmer, Executive Director, Harbor History Museum; Victoria Gehl-Blackwell, Curator Exhibits & Collections, and WMA Local Arraignments Chair; Brenda Abney, WMA President; and Mike Siebol, WMA Scholarship and Awards Committee Chair
Hear what’s happening in Washington’s museums, as WMA honors award-winning exhibits, programs, institutions, volunteers, staff and presentation of scholarships.
10:30AM – 11:15AM Keynote Address: Nina Simon Temporary Gallery
We are proud to introduce this year's Keynote Speaker Nina Simon. Nina is an independent museum exhibit designer with experience in participatory design, gaming, and social media. She is the principal of Museum 2.0, a design firm that works with
museums worldwide using social technology to create dynamic, audience-driven exhibitions and programs. Nina is an adjunct professor of Social Technology at the University of Washington Museology program, and she runs the Museum 2.0 blog which appears as a column in Museum magazine. Nina has just published The Participatory Museum, a practical guide to visitor participation. The book will be available for purchase at the conference and there will be a book signing following Nina's opening address. Nina will also be presenting the workshop “Design Techniques for Visitor Participation.”
In her keynote address, Nina will talk about unique approaches to collaboration –with community groups, with visitors, and on the web – and different ways to think about community partners. She'll present a practical framework for thinking about community participation with examples from around the world.
11:30AM – 12:30PM Lunch Main Gallery
12:45PM – 2:15PM Breakout Sessions
Design Techniques for Visitor Participation Temporary Gallery
Presenter: Nina Simon
Many museum professionals are familiar with best practices in design for content communication and visitor interaction. But design patterns for social participation are just emerging, and many institutions are still in an experimental phase when it comes to developing contributory and visitor co-created platforms. In this session, Nina will share international examples and hands-on techniques for planning successful collaborations with visitors.
 Image Licensing and Services: Benefits and Challenges
as an Institutional Resource Research Room
Presenters: Fred Poyner IV, Registrar & Digital Assets Manager, Washington State Historical Society; Kate Magner, Digital Projects and Programs Assistant, Washington State Historical Society; Nicolette Bromberg, Special Collections, UW Libraries; Carolyn Marr, Librarian, Museum of History and Industry; and Howard Giske, Curator of Photography, Museum of History and Industry
Each panelist will provide an overview of their institution’s program involving image licensing and duplication services for the public, and how this serves them as a resource for institutional support. The moderator will offer three follow-up questions regarding practices and policies, with each member having an opportunity to comment: 1. How does an image services program relate to your institution’s mission? 2. What are two of the biggest challenges you have come across in maintaining an image services program? 3. How is your image services program specifically tailored to your institution, in terms of operations, collections, or ‘brand identity’? See if your institution should start image licensing and services program.
Techniques to Facilitate Groups and Teams in Museums Midway School
Presenter: Richard Beckerman, Museum Consultant
Organizational development techniques help leaders to strengthen group performance, improve communication and innovation, and build morale. During this session panelists will do interactive demonstrations to model some simple techniques that attendees can take back to their museums and put to work immediately.
2:15PM – 2:45PM Beverage Break Main Gallery
3:00PM – 4:15PM Breakout Sessions
Museum Public Relations 101: Bringing life to history Research Room
Presenter: Lisa M. Christopher, LMChristopher & Associates
This workshop will introduce attendees to the basics of how to format, write and submit a press release for local and national media outlets. It will include basic instruction on Associated Press Style and an exercise on writing a mock press release. Attendee press releases may be read in class and critiqued to help point out dos and don’ts for getting published. Social marketing also will be discussed.
Making History Together at Lake Union Park Historic Eddon Boat building
Presenters: Betsy Davis, Executive Director, The Center for Wooden Boats; Diana Hennick, Northwest Seaport; Chuck Fowler, Past President, Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society; and Catherine Collins, Executive Director, Sound Experience aboard the historic schooner Adventuress
Introduction of the “Working Group @ Lake Union Park” which includes shared goals which provide the strategy for working together to provide public programs at Lake Union Park. They hope to inspire collaboration, provide a toolkit of ideas, and build awareness of maritime heritage efforts.
Creating a Living History Program Temporary Gallery
Presenters: Lane Sample and Mike McGuire, Fort Nisqually; Karen Haas, Living History Performer & Storyteller; Victoria Blackwell, Harbor History Museum
The session will provide information about creating living history programs for small to mid-size museums. Experts in living history will share helpful techniques and tips on creating, performing, and maintaining living history programs. Examples of existing living history programs will be represented by Fort Nisqually personnel and staff and volunteers from the new Harbor History Museum. Information will include help with researching historic people, writing scripts, designing costumes, staging, rehearsal techniques, and public performance.
 5:30PM – 9:30PM WMA Banquet on the Water
The WMA annual banquet will take place on board the 60-ft charter yacht My Girl. Boarding will begin at 5:30PM. The boat leaves the dock precisely at 6:00PM at Jerisich Dock in downtown Gig Harbor. The cruise will include a narration of historic sites along the Gig Harbor waterfront and into the surrounding south Puget Sound. A highlight will be cruising under the Narrows bridges.
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