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Professional Development Seminars
Topic:
Developing Effective Interpretive Programs
Level:
Intermediate
Date:
Friday, October 27
Time:
10 am - 4 pm
Location:
CMA/PEI Offices ,Charlottetown
Instructor:
Barry King, CMA/PEI Executive Director
Rationale: Effective
Interpretive Programming can help make a visit to a museum both more
enjoyable, relevant and educational. This program will explore how
community museums can best develop their interpretive programming.
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Topic: Researching
Your Museum Collection
Level:
Basic/Intermediate
Date:
Friday, November 24
Time:
10 am - 4 pm
Location:
CMA/PEI Office, Charlottetown
Instructors: CMA/PEI
Past Perfect Upgrade Project Staff - Sabrina Webster, Mark Demone
& Gabrielle Major
Rationale:
The Community
Museums of Prince Edward Island has been involved with its members in a
number of initiatives to help upgrade and enhance the research data
each museum has relating to its collection. Research techniques are one
of the areas which has been identified as a priority by members.
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Topic: Planning &
Building In-House Exhibits
Level:
Basic/Intermediate
Date:
Friday, November 27
Time:
10 am - 4 pm
Location:
TBA
Instructor: Barry King, Executive Director,
Community Museums Association of PEI & Community Museum Contributors
Rationale: The
planning and creation of effective in-house exhibits is an extremely
important task for small museums. This program will examine how to plan
and build a professional and effective exhibit using limited resources.
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Topic:
Finding and Keeping Volunteers
Level:
Basic/Intermediate
Date:
March 7/07
Time:
10 am - 4 pm
Location: Macphail
Homestead, Orwell
Instructor: Speakers
from PEI Network –Canada Volunteerism Initiative, local community
museum operators (TBA)
Rationale: Volunteers
are the foundation of most community museums. Finding and keeping good
volunteers is one of the most important tasks for a community based
museum. This program will explore the development and operation of an
effective volunteer program. Volunteerism rated extremely high in last
year’s training needs survey.
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Topic: Product Development for
Museums # 2
Level: Intermediate
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Instructor: Ute
Simon-Okshevsky, Executive Director, Museum Association of Newfoundland
and Labrador
Rationale:
The Community Museums Association in cooperation with the Heritage
Network Atlantic has been involved in developing an e-commerce site for
museums in the region. This workshop will explore ways that community
museums can develop products for sale which are complementary to their
museum.
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