Beginning in 2025, the OMA annual conference will be held in Spring rather than Fall

The conference this year is all about trying new things. We are hoping to organize the conference into the following four tracks: Collections Care, Leadership, Emergency Preparedness, and Tourism

Check our website for more details in early 2025

The OMA newsletter is emailed every month with updates on OMA events, museum news, other events, trainings, jobs, grants and more for the museum community in Oregon.

For more information, please email connect@oregonmuseums.org.

Save the Date for WMA 202

As we celebrate our 90th anniversary, join us to build relationships and soar higher than ever before. With the theme of ELEVATE, WMA 2025 will explore ways to lift up the experiences of cultural professionals and the communities they serve.

In Reno, Nevada, 4,400 feet above sea level, we will forward the progress of museums by looking to the future.

AAM 2025 will focus on the theme, Museums & Trust.

Museums have long inspired high levels of public trust, surpassing news outlets, government organizations, researchers and scientists, corporations, and social media platforms. This consistent finding underscores our institutions’ unique position in society as stewards of knowledge, culture, science, and history—areas where credibility and reliability are paramount

In an era marked by mistrust and misinformation, museums have a rare ability to counterbalance the proliferation of false narratives and polarized perspectives. Using our trusted position, we can cultivate a more healthy, empathetic, and informed society.

But to do so, we must maintain our credibility proactively, embracing thoughtful, transparent, and collaborative practices that will defend against influences like bias, resource challenges, abuse of power, and social injustice

An Incredible MuseumExpo

AAM is again partnering this year with the Museum Store Association to host an incredible combined expo hall. Find the most innovative services, products, and solutions in the museum field. With 350 exhibitors, you are bound to find the right partner for your museum’s current challenges and opportunities.

Join MSA in LA

We’re excited about our next MSA FORWARD Conference & Expo in “The City of Angels” – Los Angeles, California in conjunction with the American Alliance of Museums

Join the Museum Store Association (MSA) and hundreds of nonprofit retail professionals for the 70th Annual MSA FORWARD Retail Conference & Expo, taking place May 5-9, 2025 at The Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California

Once again, MSA FORWARD will be held in conjunction with the 2025 American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting & Expo

Learn best practices and new ideas for store merchandising, operations, marketing, and sale

Participate in dedicated networking events and create connections that will inspire new ideas

Meet with over 200 MSA vendors about your product needs

Hear from knowledgeable industry experts during session breakouts and keynote presentations

Network with AAM attendees and exhibitor

The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States.

The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future

We are excited for you to join us in Cincinnati as we encourage discussion about our democracy and civic institutions and how they can help strengthen understanding, inspire action, and reveal ways that all of us can participate in and shape the ongoing American experiment.

For more information, please call 615-320-3203 or email info@aaslh.org.

JOIN US AT DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS IN THE MILE-HIGH CITY IN 202

Having last hosted the conference in 2014, Denver Botanic Gardens invites you to return (or visit for the first time) in 2025 to celebrate and help shape the ELEMENTAL role public gardens play in today’s increasingly inter-connected world.

Public gardens find ourselves playing increasingly vital roles helping advance today’s greatest priorities. We are uniquely positioned to engage all people and all sectors to appreciate and better understand plants as we collectively seek to adapt to a changing climate.

While the challenges our world faces have evolved, the basic elements that shape them have not: Air, Water, Fire and Earth

The American Public Gardens Association’s Annual Conference features a variety of programs specifically designed for the needs of public horticulture professionals. Topics reflect current trends, celebrations, and issues facing our industry

The Annual Conference features sessions and workshops led by members who are experts in their fields, a large variety of local tours, a sizeable Exhibit Hall, general sessions featuring well-known Keynote and Plenary speakers, Association Awards, in-conference networking events, and so much more!

The Uintah County Heritage Museum encourages fine arts within the community by featuring a new exhibit each month.

Throughout the year, artists showcase a diverse range of art, sculpture, and photography. In addition, the Museum houses a wide variety of fine art alongside its artifacts, including several special collections.

Our Rotating Exhibits:

​January: Man Behind the Mura

February: Utah Division of Arts & Museums Erratics Traveling Sho

March: Utah Division of Arts & Museums Erratics Traveling Show / UBVA Old Masters Challeng

April: UBVA Old Masters Challeng

​May: Women Inventor

​June: Topaz Museum Traveling Sho

July: Moments on the Rive

August: Annual Quilt Sho

September: TB

​October: Fiber Outlaw

November: Doughboy Celebratio

​December: UBVA - Art Sal

For more details, feel free to check out our Facebook page, or send us an email at lfullbright@uintah.utah.gov

Join us for a special Presidents Day Tour, Memorial Day Tour and/or Veterans Day Tour at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. These free, docent-led introductory tour highlights the remarkable changes in American medicine over the past 160 years, with a special focus on military medicine

2 p.m.

FEBRUARY 16 | Presidents Day Tou

MAY 25 | Memorial Day Tou

NOVEMBER 9 | Veterans Day Tou

Contact

For more information, email USArmy.Detrick.MEDCOM-USAMRMC.List.Medical-Museum@health.mi

Request ADA accommodations 10 business days in advance at (301) 319-3303 or by email to: USArmy.Detrick.MEDCOM-USAMRMC.List.Medical-Museum@health.mil.

FREE! Open to the public. No RSVP required.

AAMG 2025 – UNM Albuquerqu

June 24-27, 202

University New Mexico Art Museu

Albuquerqu

See website for updates