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Sunday
5-? Happy Hour,
come and socialize at Ashling on the Lough at 125 56th St.
Monday
8-9 Registration at the
Civil War Museum,
a
resource table will be available for museums to display their
brochures and other information to share.
8:30- 10 Hot coffee-Hot topics:
wake up and join colleagues in hot topic roundtable
discussions
10-10:30 Welcome in Freedom Hall
10:30-11:45 Break Out Sessions at the Civil War Museum
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Archives 101– Julia
Stringfellow, Lawrence
University
- Extreme
Museum Makeover– Kirsten Villegas,
Waukesha
County Museum
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An Excuse to
Celebrate: Planning Museum Anniversaries– Dawn Sher Thomae, Milwaukee Public Museum; Patti Sherman-Cisler, John
Michael Kohler Art
Center
12 -1:30 Lunch and Keynote Address next door at
Kenosha Public Museum
1:45-3 Break out sessions at the
Civil
War Museum
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Museums and the
Virtual World– David Dexter,
Neenah
Historical Society
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Targeted Recruitment
of Volunteers– Marge Schell, Milwaukee Public Museum;
Lynn Wilding,
Zoological Society of Milwaukee; Richard Hedderman, Milwaukee
Public Museum
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Museum Marketing:
Don’t Just Make Lemonade: Make Margaritas!- Tiffany
Niederwerfer, The
History Museum at the Castle
3-3:15 Closing remarks
then you are on your own to explore the great museums in
Kenosha, including the newly renovated light keeper’s
house at the Kenosha
History Center!
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Sessions and
Speakers
Hot Coffee-Hot Topics! Drop in anytime 8:30-10:00
A new type of networking for the annual meeting!
Hot Coffee-Hot Topics are roundtable discussions set up for colleagues to discuss hot topics in the museum field.
After registration, grab some coffee and goodies and join in one of
the
discussions. Topics this year include:
¨ Grants
available from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Table host: Trent Margriff, Executive Director for
the National Trust for Historic
Preservation in
Oshkosh,
WI
¨ Going
Digital with Wisconsin Heritage Online
Table host: Emily Pfotenhauer, Outreach Specialist,
Wisconsin Heritage On-line in
Madison,
WI
¨ Collections
Conundrums
Table
host: Claudia Jacobson, Registrar,
Milwaukee
Public
Museum
¨ Traveling
Exhibits
Table host: Bob Teske, Executive Director of the
Milwaukee County Historical Society
Morning Sessions 10:30-11:45
Archives 101– 2nd Floor Classroom
The
session will provide an introduction to archives and basic archival
terminology and responsibilities. Concepts such as provenance,
original order, acquisition and accessioning, and processing of
archival collections will be covered. Information provided will be
useful to museum curators and other museum staff who work with
archival materials.
Julia Stringfellow, Archivist,
Lawrence University
Extreme
Museum
Makeover– 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Learn firsthand from the
Waukesha County Museum’s new Executive
Director, Kirsten Lee Villegas, how the museum conducted an ‘Extreme
Museum Makeover’. Learn how in just one year the organization
streamlined operations and transformed the Museum to be positioned
for future growth. In this session, you will learn principles of
organizational development and business best practices as they apply
to non-profits.
Kirsten Villegas, Executive Director,
Waukesha County Museum
An Excuse to Celebrate: Planning Museum Anniversaries– Freedom Hall
With so many museums paying attention to the bottom line, an
anniversary celebration can be just the ticket to bring in visitors,
boost staff morale, experiment with new and creative programs, start
a membership or capital campaign and more. Hear examples from
museums who have recently celebrated anniversaries for fun and
profit!
Dawn Sher Thomae, Anthropology Collections Manager/Associate
Curator, Milwaukee
Public Museum
Patti Sherman-Cisler, Deputy Director for Operations,
John
Michael Kohler Art
Center
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Keynote Address 12-1:30
Making Brownfields Bloom
John Antaramian,
former
Mayor of Kenosha and Emerging Communities Corporation, Principal.
Afternoon Sessions 1:45-3:00
Museums and the Virtual World- 2nd Floor Classroom
Objects alone aren’t always sufficient to tell a complete and
accurate story. Using virtual worlds,
digitization and virtual
re-creations for exhibits, environments and original landscapes can
be
cost-effective ways to expand the scope and reach of your
museum, while at the same time improving your museum experience.
Dave Dexter, Executive Director,
Neenah Historical
Targeted Recruitment of Volunteers– 2nd Floor Seminar Room
A panel of Volunteer Coordinators will share examples of how they’ve done
targeted recruitment for specific exhibits. The panelists will
describe recruitment efforts for medical professionals (off-site),
costumed enactors (in-house), and a fundraising event initiated by
the volunteers that exceeded their goal. We will discuss objectives,
actions plans, job descriptions, training, scheduling (internet),
troubleshooting, and evaluation, as well as accommodations made for
large number of specialized volunteers for short-term needs.
Handouts will be provided.
Marge Schell, Volunteer Coordinator,
Milwaukee Public Museum
Lynn Wilding, Volunteer Services Coordinator, Zoological Society of
Milwaukee
Richard Hedderman, Educator,
Milwaukee Public Museum
Museum Marketing: Don’t Just Make Lemonade: Make Margaritas!-
Freedom Hall
The
stack of hats atop your head is so high you can’t possibly fit
another labeled “Marketing”, right? Well move over “Facilities
Management” and “Board Relations” and make room for the one
initiative that will affect all aspects of your organization. Learn
how to infuse marketing best practices into your operational
planning – and – get results.
Tiffany Niederwerfer, Director of Marketing, The
History Museum at the Castle
A Special Invitation from the
Kenosha History Center
Explore the newly renovated light
keeper's house behind the Kenosha History Center, 220 51st Place,
near the public museum, after the WFM Annual Meeting!
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Accommodations
A block of rooms at the
Best Western Harborside
have been reserved for the WFM Annual Meeting. Please contact the
hotel for reservations 800-937-8376 or at
www.bestwestern.com/harborsideinn
and mention WFM.
Our Hosts
The Kenosha Public Museum, located
at 5500 First Avenue in
Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a natural sciences and fine and
decorative arts museum. Exhibit programming includes world cultures,
Native Americans, zoology, geology, fossils, and fine and decorative
arts.
Next door, the Civil War Museum is
like no other museum in the country. Through state-of-the-art museum
technology, life-size dioramas, and interactive engaging exhibits,
visitors travel back in history to the social, political and
economic influences that contributed to the Civil War.
Hop on a vintage electric street car and visit the
Dinosaur Discovery Museum, the only museum to exclusively focus on
the link between birds and meat-eating dinosaurs, one of the most
complete fossil records. The Carthage Institute of Paleontology is
housed in the Museum, and it is dedicated to the preparation and
conservation of real dinosaur fossils.
Links
Kenosha Public Museums
Discover more about
Kenosha,
WI
Best Western Harborside
Electric Streetcar
Kenosha History Center
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