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Since 1971, Museumwise has been connecting people in museums and historical organizations across NY - providing a full range of training, networking, and collaborative programs to support New York's museum field.
It is our vision to be a model service organization, the accomplishments of which are reflected in the success of our constituents
We invite you to take this opportunity to join your colleagues -
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Grants for Museum Advancement
Applications are now being accepted for 2011 Get Ready, Get Set and Go grants.
NB: to date we have allocated nearly 90% of the 2011 Grants for Museum Advancement funds. We encourage you to plan accordingly with your grant applications.
Visit our website for more information:
www.museumwise.org
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Museumwise Silent Auction
Thank you to the following Individuals and Organizations for donating items and services to our 2011 Silent Auction. Your generosity helped us to raise over $3,450 in support.
Adirondack Museum
Amherst Museum
Archival Methods
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Cherry Valley Group
Clarence Historical Society
Cooperman Fife and Drum Co.
Corning Museum of Glass
Design Village Floorcloths
Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc.
Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
Genesee Country Village
Geneva Historical Society
Great Camp Sagamore
Halsey's Restaurant
Hangar Theatre
Historic Huguenot Street
Hotdogs & Catsup
Landmark Society of Western New York
Martin House Restoration Corp
Military History Press/Cold River Press
National Lighthouse Museum
NYSHA & The Farmers' Museum
Oberg Research
OnCell
Oneida Community Mansion House
Ontario County Historical Society
Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica and Father Baker Museum
Papaya Restaurant
PastPerfect Software, Inc.
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure University
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Rockwell Museum of Western Art
Roycroft Campus Corp.
Roycroft Inn
Schweinforth Memorial Art Center
Seward House Museum
Smith Center for the Arts
Steel Plant Museum
The Sherwood Inn
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation
Underground Café
Visually Delicious
Walter Elwood Museum
Westchester Children's Museum
William Smith Inn
Zephyr Preservation Studio, LLC
Ashley Hopkins-Benton
Cindy Boyer
Christine Campeau
Paul D'Ambrosio
Karen Fouracre
Charlotte Hegyo
Jennifer Haines
Andy Kitzmann
Dana Krueger
Linda Norris
Karen Osburn
Erin Richardson
Joan Schumaker
Karen Shefsiek
Kenneth Shefsiek
Kristin Swain
Sally Treanor
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A Note from the Director
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Welcome Spring?
We will have to wait & see if the adage about April showers applies to this current May deluge!
Just a reminder, if you find your museum in rising waters, there are a couple of valuable resources available to you
Despite the soggy weather, we're off and running gearing up for an exciting summer.
I hope you will join us in participating in the 2011 AAM Virtual Conference, May 23-24th. We have 2 login keys still available, if you would like to participate, send me an email indicating your interest. The cost to participate is $25 (payable to Museumwise).
We'll be on the road a bit this summer presenting at the Conference on NYS History in Cooperstown, conducting a series of Listening Sessions in partnership with the Erie Canalway NHC and co-hosting a number of field sessions to glean your input in shaping our Museumwise-MANY discussion.
Summertime provides a great opportunity to get out into the field to catch up with friends. We hope to see you this summer & look forward to hearing what you've been up to since last we met!
Best regards for a lovely summer,
~Catherine Gilbert
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| Museumwise & MANY Investigate a Joint Service Model | |
During the business meeting portion of our annual NYS Museums in Conversation Conference in Buffalo, Museumwise and MANY board chairs Michele Phillips and John Haworth announced that Museumwise and MANY are in discussions to explore consolidation as a way to provide a bolder and more integrated platform of services to museums of all types in New York State. You may read their remarks here.
Through funding from a NYSCA sponsored Get Set grant, we have engaged Scott Sears, a Finger Lakes-based consultant, to guide us through a process of self-examination and stakeholder input that will allow us to determine how best to serve the field. As we move through this process, we will be reaching out to our membership for your thoughts and advice.
We believe that the outcome of our work will result in many positives, not the least of which will be, as the Get Set panel noted, "a model and a message to the field -- "if they can do it, so can we."
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| 2011 Museum Institute at Sagamore |
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Envision a conversation between enlightened colleagues - ideas spark and are encouraged to burn brightly into action.
The 2011 Museum Institute at Sagamore theme is Lead the way... Whether you're responsible for leading an institution, a board, a school program or a group of volunteers ... this year's Institute is for experienced and aspiring leaders alike.
We have made a concerted effort to steer the Institute toward topics that can be examined from every angle with the goal of engaging museum professionals from across the disciplines (both organizationally - art, children's, history, science, etc and professionally - administrators, curators, educators, trustees, etc) to join together in discussion. By encouraging cross-discipline presentations and participation we aspire to foster an innovative and actionable learning process.
We look forward to exploring the following topics:
- Board development & leadership - creating a partnership between staff & board
- Change agents - establishing a path to positively lead a department, staff, board, program through a significant change of course
- Courage of conviction - providing leadership in your community
- Employing the Participatory Museum concept
- Leadership training experience/s - motivating vision, managing fear, empowering individuals
- Looking ahead - embracing emerging issues, challenges, questions
- Preparing for brighter days - positioning your organization to make hay as the sun returns
- Taking care - opportunities to encourage, develop, challenge & protect staff & volunteers to foster moral, creativity and growth
The Museum Institute at Sagamore is a four-day retreat for museum staff & trustees. The Institute supports a hands-on/hands-dirty approach, inviting presenters & participants to dig in to a topic.
The 2011 Institute will take place September 20-23rd. Acceptance to the Institute is by application -
click here for an application.
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| Museumwise Award of Merit |
Congratulations!
Museumwise celebrated excellence and achievement in New York's museum community with the presentation of the 2010 Awards of Merit at the Opening Reception of the Museums in Conversation Conference at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY.
The Museumwise Awards of Merit are given to institutions or individuals whose work represents an outstanding contribution to New York's museum field and to the communities they serve. The Award of Merit winners were presented with a Gift Certificate from Gaylord Brothers.
Award of Merit Recipients
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, The Boltons of Pelham Priory: A Cultural Legacy from England to America
- Geneva Historical Society, Geneva's Changing Landscape
- Lyndhurst, The Scarecrow Invasion
- New-York Historical Society, Nueva York (1613-1945)
- Individual Achievement for the Organizational Revitalization of the Saratoga Springs History Museum
- Whitney Museum of American Art, Curate Your Own Membership
Certificates of Commendation
Certificates of Commendation are given for excellence within the context of available means and regional standards.
- Burchfield Penney Art Center, RendezBlue Source
- Chemung County Historical Society, Mark Twain in Elmira
- Fraunces Tavern Museum, Restoration: Fraunces Tavern Museum
- Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, Come Write on Our Walls
- Oneida Community Mansion House, Photographic Collection Work, Storage and Exhibition Space
- Schenectady County Historical Society, Faces of Schenectady: 1715-1750
For more information on this year's winning projects please visit our website www.museumwise.org
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| Planning ahead - 2012 Museums in Conversation |
Mark your calendars - the 2012 Museums in Conversation Conference will take place April 22-24th at the Albany Marriott on Wolf Road.
We invite our friends from the Capital Region to join us on Tuesday June 7th from 3:00-4:30pm at the Shaker Heritage Society, 25 Meeting House Road, Albany to help plan the 2012 Museums in Conversation Conference! We hope that you will join us in identifying topics, sites, fresh ideas and innovative presenters that best depict the amazing museum and heritage sites in your region.
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| Special Go! Grants for Non-Museum Professionals |
 To encourage cross-discipline learning and cross-organization collaboration, special Go! Grants are available for professionals working outside of the preservation/historic house field to attend the 2011 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference in Buffalo, NY from October 19 - 22, 2011 Individuals working in New York State non-profit organizations such as libraries, colleges, and community-based groups are encouraged to apply for these special Go! Grants of up to $500 to cover travel and registration costs for the conference. Applications are due by June 1, 2011. To apply, complete the Special Go! grant - Preservation application here, or here for a PDF of the application. This opportunity is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities working in partnership with Museumwise and the New York State Council on the Arts. |
Museums in Conversation
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Sponsored by Museumwise & The Museum Association
of New YorkHyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York
April 3-5, 2011
How Do We Prove the Value of Museums?Thank you Buffalo!
Presentation Follow-up. Several of our facilitators have submitted their PPT presentations and handouts - these materials are now available on the Museums in Conversation website. If we have received material it will be posted below the session description on the schedule. Action Plans. If you attended the Closing Town Hall session with Barbara Soren you may recall that we asked you to define What one action are you going to take tomorrow that is going to make a difference? Now we want to check in to see if you've followed up on your plan! Be sure to shoot Stephanie an email to let her know how you fared with your task. Your responses will help us as we continue to analyze all of the information we collected over the course of the conference to develop a white paper on proving value that we hope will be useful to you. Video Competition Kudos. Congratulations to Historic Cherry Hill "most creative" and "audience choice" video and the Corning Museum of Glass " most inspiring video" for their award winning entries! We asked you to submit your own 5 minute (or less) online videos exploring the question of the value of your museums. Sponsors & Exhibitors. Many thanks to our 2011 Museums in Conversation Sponsors and Exhibitors we truly appreciate your commitment to serving the museum field. |
| Save the Date - Collections Care & Management Listening Sessions |  Sponsored by the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in partnership with Museumwise We want to hear from you! We are hosting a series of listening sessions to serve as a way to determine the needs of museums and historic organizations throughout the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in respect to their collections and other areas that impact their effectiveness. We will develop a discussion around the central, essential question: "Our work would be so much more effective if...."
Our ultimate goal is to create a valuable series of technical assistance workshops to be launched in the fall of 2011. Schedule - all sessions are scheduled for 3:30-5pm Thursday, June 9th Arkell Museum, Canajoharie Friday, June 10th Rochester Museum & Science Center Monday, June 20th Chapman Museum, Glens Falls Friday, June 24th Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse Monday, June 27th The History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca Tuesday, June 28th Niagara County History Center, Lockport Format: Each 90-minute session will follow a modified "open space" format with participants determining the content and direction of the conversation. Registration: The sessions are free and open to the field so by all means invite a colleague! Preregistration is requested, call (800.895.1648) or email director@museumwise.org with your name, organizational affiliation and full contact information (address, phone, email) to register today! Please be sure to indicate which session you will be attending. Thanks in advance to our friends & colleagues at our host sites for their hospitality! |
Documentary Heritage Program
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Upcoming workshops & conferences of interest:
New York Archives Conference The 2011 NYAC conference will be held at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, June 8-10th. Please visit the NYAC website for information & registration. Code Green WorkshopsA series of regional workshops, designed by the Preservation League of New York for contractors, architects, building professionals and historic building stewards/owners/managers. These workshops focus on energy conservation issues of interest to those who work in older buildings, but who do not specialize in historic preservation or historic structures. Participants will receive technical information on the Energy Conservation Construction Code of New York State - 2010 and its applications for historic buildings in both classroom and field presentations. Click here for an informational flyer Code Green flyer. Workshop dates & locals: Schenectady-May 16 and 17 Syracuse-June 16 and 17 Plattsburgh-June 23 and 24 Buffalo-July 14 and 15 Hempstead-August 4 and 5 Elmira-August 18 and 19 For more info visit the Preservation League of NY website
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2011 Conference on New York State History
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Museumwise's Demystifying Digitization Workshop leads off this year's Conference on New York State History.
Digitization is a word we're hearing a lot these days, but what does it mean and why should we be doing it? Participants in this workshop will walk away with an understanding of what it means to digitize, how to manage a digitization project, where to find help, and what to do once the project is completed.
Featuring Matthew Hogan, Manager of Digital Services and Resource Sharing, South Central Regional Library Council and Erin Richardson, Director of Collections for the Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum.
This workshop has been developed by Museumwise, and is supported by the Documentary Heritage Program of the New York State Archives, a program of the New York State Education Department
The 32nd annual Conference on New York State History will be held in Cooperstown on June 2-4, 2011.
For additional information and Registration please visit the New York State Historical Association website.
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Conservation Treatment Grant Program - Application Deadline June 1
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The Conservation Treatment Program provides support for treatment procedures by professional conservators to aid in stabilizing and preserving objects in collections of museums, historical, and cultural organizations in New York State.
WHAT WE FUND: Support of up to $7,500 is available for conservation treatment of paintings, works on paper, textiles, furniture, frames, sculptures, historical, ethnographic, and decorative objects owned by eligible organizations. Funding is also available for treatment costs for supports, frames, stands, and mounts that are integral to the treatment of the object.
WHAT WE DO NOT FUND: Grants will not support conservation of archival collections. Grants will not support staff salaries. Funds are not available for preventive care, re-housing or re-formatting of objects, purchases of storage furniture, or upgrading environmental systems.
For online guidelines, application forms, and listings of past grantees visit: www.greaterhudson.org
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2011
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Collections Care & Preservation Online Courses - Fall 2011
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Collections Care & Management 101
CM 101 is designed for staff and volunteers at small and mid-size organizations. The course content was initially created by conservator Gwen Spicer, collections specialists Joann Lindstrom, Patti Ford and Linda Norris. Course materials are designed to help you focus on your own organization, with assignments relating to real-life issues and problems.
Topics to be covered over a six week period include:
- Mission & Collecting Plans
- Collections Management Policies
- Insurance, Ethics & Museum Law
- Accessioning & Cataloging
- Security & Disaster Planning
- Housekeeping, IPM & Artifact Handling
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Catherine Gilbert, Executive Director
Museumwise
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