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Pre-Conference Workshops
Extend your learning opportunities and gain hands on experience with these immersive and interactive pre-conference workshops.
All workshops take place from 1 - 4 PM on Saturday, April 5.
Registration
| Full conference attendee* | $25 |
| MANY member workshop only | $35 |
| Non-member workshop only | $45 |
Space is limited; advance registration is required.
*Full conference attendees receive a discount registration code to registration for a pre-conference workshop in their confirmation email or can email conference@nysmuseums.org.
| Workshop | Location | Description |
HistoryForge: Building Community and Community History |
The History Center in Tompkins County | The History Center in Tompkins County will host a workshop on its open-source platform, HistoryForge, which links census records, maps, photographs and other local resources. Participants will learn how museums can use HistoryForge to cultivate community, increase civic engagement, historical thinking, and public engagement with their collections. Participants will gain hands-on experience with HistoryForge adding content and exploring its features. They will also learn about the human and historical resources involved in developing a local HistoryForge installation and how THC is using it in exhibits and programming. The session will end with a HistoryForge walking tour of the Ithaca Commons. |
| Workshop | Location | Description |
| Itty Bitty Learning: Engaging youngest audiences in science, art, and gardens | The Johnson Museum of Art |
Join three Ithaca institutions to get hands-on with early childhood learning and play! In this fun, interactive, materials-rich workshop participants will explore early childhood learning from the perspective of an art museum, a science center, and a children’s garden. The workshop will feature a tour, in-depth presentations, activities, and take-home resources. |
| Workshop | Location | Description |
| Build Big, Start Small: Exhibition Development Hacks | Sciencenter | Pitch, collaborate, prototype, build, remediate! This is the stuff of exhibit development. Don’t have an exhibits team or a shop? That’s okay! This interactive and playful session will have tips for building capacity through partnerships, strategies for rapid prototyping and demonstrate how small changes to existing exhibits can create a big impact. Join the Exhibits Team at the Sciencenter with special guests to take an exhibition from concept to showtime.
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| Workshop | Location | Description |
| Turning the Lens: Black Family Photography, Archival Justice, and Photo Sharing Workshop | Ithaca Marriott Downtown | The Turning the Lens: Black Family Photography, Archival Justice, and Photo Sharing Workshop is designed to teach participants a non-extractive methodology for engaging their local community that utilizes family photographs. We will discuss how our own project to assemble a digital collection of “Black Family Photography in Syracuse” uses family photos to cultivate connections through programming, illuminate suppressed local histories, and bridge gaps between institution and community. The hands-on component of this workshop invites participants to bring their own family photos to learn how to facilitate photo sharing sessions that can prompt deeper connections between community partners and amplify marginal histories.
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| Workshop | Location | Description |
| Collective Wisdom: Collaborative Learning to Support Your Community Archiving Projects | Ithaca Marriott Downtown |
This workshop will invite attendees to engage in collaborative learning through the exploration of opportunities and challenges commonly encountered in community archiving projects. Participants will gain inspiration and insight from learning about other community archiving projects happening at cultural heritage organizations and will learn strategies and tools for guiding community collaborations toward successful outcomes. A featured case study will be a multi-faceted Queens Memory collaboration with graduate Public History classes and the local residents who make up the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy, to document and preserve a previously neglected historic burial ground. |
Pre-Conference Workshop Cancellation PolicyIf for any reason, MANY cancels a pre-conference workshop, we will issue you a full refund. If you cancel your registration before Monday March 31, that request must be made in writing via email to conference@nysmuseums.org. We will refund you the full amount of your registration, minus a $15 administrative fee. Refunds requested after March 31 will not be granted, including requests made based on absence due to illness, late arrival and/or weather conditions. You are welcome to give or sell them to a colleague attending the conference. Please inform MANY staff of any pre-conference workshop registration transfer. Please see your hotel confirmation email for your individual hotel reservation cancellation policy. |