Webinars and Online Meet-Ups Highly focused, timely and cost-effective professional development offerings

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums offers webinars and online meet-ups to enhance our member’s and our community’s professionals development.

This program has a rolling schedule is always in development with current topics. Webinars are open to the first 100 that register. Presenters determine whether they wish to record the webinars and to make them available to attendees.

Interested in hosting a webinar with MAAM? You must be a member to host a webinar or online meet-up. Email us at info@midatlanticmuseums.org with the following information about your webinar:

• Suggested topic
• Short abstract (100 words)
• Any additional panelists

UPCOMING  EVENTS:

There are no further webinars scheduled at this time. Check back often for updates or share your idea for a webinar with us! Contact info@midatlanticmuseums.org

PAST EVENTS:

Current, active MAAM members can access recordings of past sessions at any time by visiting https://maom.wildapricot.org/Resource-Library

Not a member yet? Click here to learn more about MAAM Membership!

Members can view recordings on our Resource Library. Not a member? Join today!

Members can view recordings on our Resource Library. Not a member? Join today!

MAAM Speed Networking, December 4, 2020

Calling all MAAM Members! Join us on Friday, December 4 for an online networking event with fellow museum enthusiasts! Learn what networking is all about and practice getting to know colleagues in rapid rounds of speed networking!

MAAM presented a series of conversations for museum professionals about race in collaboration with the Cooperstown Graduate Program

Click here to view the PDF Flyer with full session descriptions and speaker bios for this program. 

Members can view recordings on our Resource Library. Not a member? Join today!

Has This Been Sanitized?
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM Eastern
After months of Covid-19 closure, museums are having to dramatically modify operations. Onsite visitation objectives are upended. Hygiene issues are at the fore of whether and how to provide visitor-interpretation via audio devices, kiosks and other in-gallery interactives. Institutional audiences are growing digitally and this new paradigm deeply impacts accessibility – all of this while the United States approaches an election season!

View the recording on our Resource Library

A Webinar Series
“Museum Careers in Transition”

Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 5 – 28, 2020
Live Webinar Series

FREE TO MAAM MEMBERS

presented by Greg Stevens, a member of MAAM’s Board of Directors

Presented in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) and the Virginia Association of Museums (VAM). 

The global pandemic has impacted the entire museum field, resulting in many of our colleagues and friends facing serious career disruptions. You or someone you know may be among those people. If so, this is an ideal opportunity to learn to manage stress, take stock of your strengths and skills, power up your personal brand, get to know your network, recraft your résumé and cover letter, and brush up your interview skills. Join us each Tuesday and Thursday, May 5 – 28 at 2:30 p.m. ET for an action-focused career webinar series hosted by Greg Stevens with special guests. Each 60-minute webinar will provide you with useful insight, tips, and practical exercises to get you started on next steps in your career—right here, right now.

Creating Digital Field Trips and Virtual Education Content

With the closure of schools and the cancellation of museum field trips, sharing digital education content is more important than ever. You’ll see examples of the different types of educational content and how two organizations created digital field trips for educators, parents, and students during this crisis. There will also be time at the end for Q&A to brainstorm ideas or ask questions about building great digital education experiences.

VAMONDE created the digital conference guide for Building Museums™ 2020 in Chicago

Date: Wednesday, April 22nd
Time: 1:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Members can access the Webinar Recording on our Resource Library

From Deep to Hyper Attention, and Back

In the past decades, we have developed into able multi-taskers. With the virus forcing us to multitask largely in one place for the foreseeable future, many of us are becoming much more aware of this than usual. So much so that in some cases it makes us slightly uncomfortable. Yes, we want to read that book, make that puzzle, or simply watch our rice cook, but can we still focus?

Over the past half year, David van der Leer, consultant and principal of DVDL DD, and Sarah Williams, director of MIT’s Civic Design Data Lab, researched what has happened to our attention spans and what this could mean for cultural institutions in the future. Joined by Niki Stewart, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the three will walk us through the research and real world applications. They found that despite the recent claims that the average human attention span has shortened, evidence actually indicates that the ways in which we pay attention, rather than the overall attention span, has changed. Join in to contribute to the conversation and find out how this impacts cultural institutions.

David van der Leer is a MAAM member.

Date: Thursday, April 23rd

Members can access the Webinar Recording on our Resource Library

The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums presented, “Creativity & Collaboration: Transforming the Historic Penn Museum”. This case study was recently presented at Building Museums™ 2020 in Chicago earlier in March. Presenters have graciously decided to share this as FREE online webinar to the first 100 participants to register.

In 2017, the Penn Museum began a three-phase project to renovate two of its six wings, restore original features of the more than century-old building, add important visitor amenities, and upgrade the MEP and structural systems—while remaining open with a full range of programming. Attendees will take away valuable lessons from the team’s on-the- ground experience and how it met challenges (and surprises) with architectural vision, creative engineering design, use of cutting-edge technology, and collaboration.

Moderator: Philip C. Steiner, P.E. Managing Director, Managing Director, Altieri, Norwalk, CT

Speakers: Brian J. Houghton, Chief Building Engineer, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), Philadelphia, PA; Perry Whidden, AIA, Principal, Gluckman Tang Architects, New York, NY; David Artigas, P.E. LEED AP, Senior Project Manager, SIMPSON GUMPERTZ & HEGER, New York, NY

Hosted on Apr 1, 2020 12:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Members can access the Webinar Recording on our Resource Library