Association of Midwest Museums

Do you manage frontline or technical staff at your museum? We're working on new series of learning modules for the cross-regional Museum Learning Hub resource website and would love to gather your thoughts on topics. Join us for one of the following virtual feedback sessions: 🟠Feedback Session #1: November 21, 4:00 PM ET: https://ow.ly/bGTX50U1Jwa 🟠Feedback Session #2: November 22, 12:30 PM ET: https://ow.ly/whA550U1Jw8 All are welcome. Come as you are, from wherever you are. Sessions will be hosted in Zoom with captions.

"The Hustle: Celebrating Detroit’s Unsung Entrepreneurs" was a 2-year initiative at Detroit Historical Museum that chronicled the inspiring Black Detroiters who rose to success in unexpected industries. During our final awards series event on Nov 18, find out how the museum leaned into contemporary collecting & storytelling to uncover the stories of Detroit’s unsung Black entrepreneurs & brought them in droves to the museum to see those stories – their stories – represented. Learn more & sign up: https://lnkd.in/d2pibfV6

It's #WorkInMuseumsWednesday! Explore open positions in the Midwest and beyond: https://bit.ly/ammjobs

"People wanted to know what happened in *their* communities." It's so simple, but it was the major motivation behind a multi-community effort to unearth Underground Railroad history in Oakland County, MI. Congratulations to the Birmingham Museum, this year's #MidwestMuseums Collaborators Award recipient, for their outstanding leadership in this collaborative endeavor! 👏👏👏 Hear from staff and volunteers who worked on this project in a recording of our recent virtual event in their honor: https://lnkd.in/gWSencZv

📣 The state competition is back! ⭐ Last year, we set an annual giving record of $23,000 with the launch of a (friendly) state competition, and we’re excited to bring this fun event back for 2024. Help your state snag the title from our returning champs – Minnesota – by making a contribution or upgrading your membership today! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5WkGShH

How can contemporary collecting and storytelling transform a museum's relationships with underrepresented communities? Join us for our final awards event on Nov 18 to find out how the Detroit Historical Society did just that! Learn more & sign up: https://lnkd.in/d2pibfV6

There's still time to sign up for our Nov 4 awards event honoring Promising Leadership Award recipient, Bethany Hrachovec! We're going to talk food, programs & leadership conundrums - don't miss it! All are welcome! Learn more & sign up: https://lnkd.in/d2pibfV6

It's #WorkInMuseumsWednesday! Explore open positions in the Midwest and beyond: https://bit.ly/ammjobs

Join us for the #MidwestMuseums Connect Meetup on Nov 1 @ 11:30 am ET to chat with Rebecca Shulman (Museum Questions Consulting) who earlier this year asked 14 museum leaders about the challenges they are seeing in organizational culture and how they are addressing them. We'll discuss her findings compared to our own experiences. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gr2Sem2g Sign up for this series of FREE candid biweekly conversations & attend when you can: https://bit.ly/amm-meetups

There's still time to sign up for this week's virtual event honoring the Birmingham Museum, MI (Oct 30)! Find out how this small museum made BIG things happen in their region through a cross-community collaborative history project focused on the Underground Railroad. All are welcome! Learn more & sign up: https://lnkd.in/d2pibfV6