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• Encore Series: The Dubuque Museum of Art

  • When
    14 Jul 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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    Virtual
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    25 registrants

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  The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is excited to bring you MAAM Encores—a virtual learning series. Each session offers practical insights, innovative strategies, and inspiring stories from across the museum field.

  Founded in 1874, the Dubuque Museum of Art (DuMA) has evolved into a Smithsonian affiliate known for American Regionalism and contemporary art. Now, it is developing a new indoor-outdoor campus to better serve its community and strengthen Dubuque’s cultural and economic future.

  Shaped by extensive community input, the project prioritizes spaces for children, local representation, and shared community use—challenging traditional museum models. With construction underway and a temporary space testing new ideas, this session explores how community voices and institutional goals are being translated into a flexible, future-focused museum design.

  Join colleagues from across the region (and beyond!) for interactive presentations, Q&A sessions, and opportunities to connect with peers—without leaving your desk. Whether you missed the original conference session at the 2026 Building Museums Symposium or want to dive deeper into the topic, Encores brings expert knowledge straight to you. Free for MAAM Members; Non-members: $25. 

  Free for 2026 Building Museums Symposium Attendees with registration code. Contact info@midatlanticmuseums.org to verify and get code.

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• Museums Moving Forward: Digging into the Data on Workplace Culture

  • When
    05 Aug 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual
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    5 registrants

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  Please join Museums Moving Forward (MMF) to engage with the latest findings from their 2025 report Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in US Art Museums. During this program, MMF will share their field-wide data insights with a special focus on the Mid-Atlantic region. Although the findings are specific to art museums, staff from all types of museums are encouraged to join!

  We will spend most of our time together using the data as a jumping off point for discussion to help MMF ground the data in your on-the-ground experiences. MMF will also solicit feedback to inform future surveys and reports, so that they can best serve the needs of the field. For the key findings from MMF’s 2025 report, please review the report’s executive summary.

  Presenter: Liz Levine, Head of Programs at Museums Moving Forward

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• Encore Series: Best Practices Bundling Projects

  • When
    18 Aug 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual
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    3 registrants

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  The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is excited to bring you MAAM Encores—a virtual learning series. Each session offers practical insights, innovative strategies, and inspiring stories from across the museum field.

  This session explores how multiple small projects—ranging from roofing and stone repairs to gallery updates, landscape restoration along the National Mall, and new visitor-facing features—were successfully bundled into a single, coordinated effort. Presenters will share insights on planning, budgeting, team coordination, and communication across departments, highlighting both challenges and cost-saving synergies. Attendees will gain practical lessons on managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects and the benefits of thoughtful, collaborative planning.

  Join colleagues from across the region (and beyond!) for interactive presentations, Q&A sessions, and opportunities to connect with peers—without leaving your desk. Whether you missed the original conference session at the 2026 Building Museums Symposium or want to dive deeper into the topic, Encores brings expert knowledge straight to you. Free for MAAM Members; Non-members: $25. 

  Free for 2026 Building Museums Symposium Attendees with registration code. Contact info@midatlanticmuseums.org to verify and get code.

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• Session Presenter Registration MAAM 2026 Annual Conference

  • Start
    06 Oct 2026
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    08 Oct 2026
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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• MAAM 2026 Annual Conference

  • Start
    06 Oct 2026
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    08 Oct 2026
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    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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    5 registrants

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• Managing with Care: Management Training for Mid-Career Professionals

  • When
    06 Oct 2026
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    9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
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  This full-day management institute is a day dedicated to developing more compassionate, effective managers. It offers participatory activities and conversation, using a combination of individual, small-group, and large-group work.

  
  

  The day will includes:

  • Developing your personal management approach
  • Uncovering your core values & how they differ from your institution’s / your direct reports’
  • Exploring complicated staff management issues through real-life case studies
  • Understanding organizational culture & how your management choices contribute to it

  
  

  We know non-profits historically neither hire nor train for management skills, leaving staff unprepared for some aspects of their jobs. The SEED approach to management training emphasizes co-learning, co-creation, and thoughtful risk-taking. The SEED trio (Rachel, Rebecca, and David) have both museum-based management experience and research-based understanding of key management skills. As consultants, we have heard from both leadership and new and seasoned managers that good management is key to institutional (and individual) success.

  
  

  Who Should Attend

  Anyone who:

  • Manages at least one direct report (could be full-time, part-time, freelance, volunteer)
  • Wants to grow their ability to manage people productively
  • Is seeking new tools and strategies to be a more compassionate, effective manager

  
  

  You will leave with tools to be a better leader, a sense of common ground with other managers, and the confidence and understanding needed to take on new leadership experiences.

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• Beyond the Label: The Experience Designer’s Toolkit for Powerful & Engaging Storytelling

  • When
    06 Oct 2026
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    9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Douglass Lounge, Douglass Student Center, Rutgers University
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  What if a museum could feel less like a vault that preserves the past and more like a laboratory for exploring the present?

  
  

  This intensive, full-day workshop gives museum professionals the tools to make that shift — moving from institutions that tell visitors what to think toward experiences that invite them to feel, question, and discover. Using a multi-stage methodology, participants will learn how to conceptualize exhibits and experiences that are  educational, personally meaningful, and fun. The results? Experiences that give visitors fresh perspectives and transferable skills for their everyday lives.

  
  

  Drawing on decades of practical experience and leadership–including the re-imagining of the International Spy Museum–the instructors will support you in moving away from "what we want to say" to "how visitors can most meaningfully experience it.” You will leave with a practical framework for experience design.

  
  

  What You Will Leave With:

  • An Engagement Toolkit: Tactics that can work with small and large budgets. 

  • An Assessment Tool: Ensure that every experience answers the “So What?” question. 

  • A New Approach: Think differently about how to develop exhibits and experiences that have deep and meaningful impact for your audiences. 

  
  

  Who is This For?

  Anyone who wants to go “beyond button pushing” to create meaningful, memorable and relevant exhibit experiences. 

  • Exhibit Developers

  • Educators

  • Curators

  • Historians

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