Rural Museums Adapting to Contemporary Challenges Program Launched
The Oklahoma Museums Association is pleased to announce a new program, Rural Museums Adapting to Contemporary Challenges, is being offered 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.
If your museum is located in a county above, please register for this FREE program here
The goal of the program is to provide a program offering practical museum collections information to museum workers (paid and volunteer) and help museums adapt to contemporary challenges.
The program is an extension the newly improved 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, how to process artifacts and much more. The program will consist of 32 online video modules (max 8 minutes each), two real time discussions on Zoom with subject experts on Zoom and one in-person meeting, individualized curated resource, and individualized attention.
Having museum collection experts available 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 designed for each participating museum full of information.
The dates of the Zoom meeting will be August 10 and January 25, and the in-person meeting will be on October 27 in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma History Center. The experts assisting with the program are Karen Whitecotton, Jennifer Holt and Melissa Owens. Individuals who attend all three programs (2 Zoom calls and 1 in-person meeting) will be entered into a drawing for a $100 Amazon giftcard.
Having these discussions with museum collection experts will help these 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 designed for them full of information that will be a result of the information requested during the discussions as well as other beneficial information. There will be project evaluations in February,
The run time for each course video module is 8 minutes or less making them easy to complete. All video modules can be located on the OMA YouTube channel. All modules are closed captioned. It is recommended that you complete the course modules in order as each module builds on the information presented in previous modules. The course is self-paced.
A list of course modules and accompanying handout materials appears below and on the webpage here. If you would prefer to download ALL the handout materials at one time, you may do so here.
The timeline for the program is as follows:
Access modules and handouts 1-10 below or on the website here and attend a Zoom meeting on August 10 at 10am.
Module 1: Course Objectives Module 1 Handout
Module 2: What is a Museum Module 2 Handout
Module 3: Mission Statement Module 3 Handout
Module 4: Exercise on Donating Objects Module 4 Handout
Module 5: Ethics and Conflicts of Interest Module 5 Handout
Module 6: Codes of Ethics Module 6 Handout
Module 7: Exercise on Museum Law & Ethics Module 7 Handout
Module 8: Exercise on Conflicts of Interest Module 8 Handout
Module 9: Fundraising for Collections Module 9 Handout
Module 10: Time Management Module 10 Handout
Access modules 11-21 below or on the website here and attend an in-person meeting on October 27 from 11am-3pm in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma History Center.
Module 11: Basic Definitions Module 11 Handout
Module 12 Collections Management Module 12 Handout
Module 13: Exercise on Accepting Donations Module 13 Handout
Module 13b: Exercise on Museum Law & Ethics Revisited Module 13b Handout
Module 14: Writing a Collections Plan Module 14 Handout
Module 15: Exercise on Writing Your Museum’s Collecting Plan Module 15 Handout
Module 16: The Collections Committee Module 16 Handout
Module 17: Legal Issues Module 17 Handout
Module 18: NAGPRA Module 18 Handout
Module 19: Exercise on The Museum & NAGPRA Module 19 Handout
Module 20: Copyright Law Module 20 Handout
Module 21: Other Laws Pertaining to Museum Collections Module 21 Handout
Access modules 22-32 below or on the website here and attend a Zoom meeting January 25 at 10am
Module 22: Insurance Module 22 Handout
Module 23 Collections Registration Module 23 Handout
Module 24: Forms Module 24 Handout
Module 25: OMA’s Guidelines Relating to Abandoned Property Module 25 Handout
Module 26: Numbering Systems Module 26 Handout
Module 27: Exercise on Accession Numbers Module 27 Handout
Module 28: Cataloging Module 28 Handout
Module 29: Loans Module 29 Handout
Module 30: To Whom Should We Loan Module 30 Handout
Module 31: Deaccessioning Module 31 Handout
Module 32: Exercise on Deaccessioning Objects Module 32 Handout