Small and Rural Museums Invited to a Collections Conundrums Zoom Call on January 25 at 10am
The Oklahoma Museums Association is pleased to announce the last Zoom call for the program, Rural Museums Adapting to Contemporary Challenges. The goal of the program is offer online and on-demand practical museum collections information to museum workers (paid and volunteer), access to museum collections subject experts to answer questions, and overall help from OMA for museums to adapt to contemporary challenges, especially those in rural Oklahoma.
Register in advance for this meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
At the end of the call we will tell you about the new Oklahoma Museums Association Fundraising Academy, which is full of great fundraising resources and is completely free to OMA members.
The museum collections subject experts who will be in attendance to help brainstorm answers to your collections conundrum questions are Karen Whitecotton, Oklahoma Historical Society; Melissa Owens, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum; and Jennifer Holt, Will Rogers Memorial Museum.
The program is an extension of the Museum Accessioning and Registration of Collection Online Course (MARC), which was developed by the Oklahoma Museums Association. The course covers mission statements, conflicts of interest, ethics, collections management policies, collecting plans, collections committees, and legal issues relating to museum collections and deaccessioning and how to process artifacts. The program consists of 32 online modules.
Having these discussions with museum collection experts will help museums brainstorm solutions to their museum collections conundrums and help them adapt to contemporary challenges. At the conclusion of the program, OMA will provide a list of curated resources to attendees that will be a result of the information requested during the discussions as well as other beneficial resources.
Priority is given to the 65 museums in Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Johnston, Kiowa, Latimer, McCurtain, McIntosh, Okfuskee, and Pushmataha counties thanks to a grant from the Carolyn Watson Rural Oklahoma Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation.