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Smithsonian Quality on a Shoe String Budget Learn to do amazing things with very nearly nothing. Sometimes what makes an installation striking isn’t always the most expensive element. Learn to design everything from “small and intimate” to a “grand experience.” Learn about materials and techniques, sources for ideas, and making memorable exhibits for your audiences.
Storage Alternatives For Today’s Museum This presentation will look at today’s museum storage trends and needs. Various storage options will be discussed as they relate to: aesthetics, capacity, cost, growth, and security. Finally, museum-specific examples will be discussed, and a dialogue will be started about “green”storage.
New Frontiers in Accessibility: Audio-Described Tours In this session, learn (relatively) low-cost ways to make exhibits more fully accessible for visitors who are blind or visually-impaired.
New Frontiers in Website Design Use the latest web technology to communicate the unique nature and spirit of your museum. Take a detailed look at the underlying web technologies and design strategies to drive dynamic and innovative web experiences. (Don’t be uneasy about attending – these folks speak in simple terms).
How To Develop Museums and Live to Tell About It Session 1: We’re In This Together, Pard’ner! During this session, you will learn how museums can partner with universities, tourism associations, and heritage organizations - along with other assorted and possibly unlikely amigos - so that all may benefit.
Community History In 2003, a consulting firm was hired by MTCC to create a master plan and conduct a Community History Project of Little Rock’s black community. The result of the Community History Project (CHP) is 100s of hours of oral history and scanned digital images. This session will discuss the positive and negative aspects of the process in hindsight and explain the methods MTCC has developed to process these artifacts (CD-Rom with images, VHS, Mini-DVD, audio cassettes, and transcriptions).
How to Develop Museums and Live to Tell About It Session 3: Resurrecting Old Ghosts If you deal with historic properties or have an interest in preservation, you will be interested in this session about considerations that went into the restoration of Arkansas State University’s three heritage sites. Each one is unique; each one resulted in different restoration decisions.
Museum Assessment Program and Conservation Assessment Program The Conservation Assessment Program provides a general conservation assessment of your museum’s collection, environmental conditions, and site. We will also be discussing the Museum Assessment Program, which is designed to show how museums compare to standards, utilize best practices in the field, and understand how other institutions deal with similar challenges.
