Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Opening Reception - Peel Art Gallery Museums + Archives (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Concurrent Sessions 1 (11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
- Addressing Diversity & Inclusion (60 mins, Breakout Room One)
- Reconciling Heritage: Knowledge Sharing and Inclusive Practices in Indigenous Collections (60 mins, Breakout Room Two)
- FOMO-vs-FOOI: Community Museums and Open Data AND Navigating Open Waters: Online Collections and Linked Open Data (30 mins each, Breakout Room Three)
Concurrent Sessions 2 (1:30 pm - 2:15 pm)
- Honouring Through Ceremony: Walking With Our Sisters at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery (45 mins, Breakout Room One)
- Queering History: Including Queer Content at your Museum (45 mins, Breakout Room Two)
- The Journey Towards Equitable Education: A Museum's Role (45 mins, Breakout Room Three)
Concurrent Sessions 3 (3:30 pm - 4:00 pm)
- ROM Welcomes | Inviting Canadian Newcomers to the ROM (30 mins, Breakout Room One)
- Drawing People to the Forks: Opportunities and Challenges (30 mins, Breakout Room Two)
- Engaging Audiences: The New Canadian History Hall at the Canadian Museum of History (30 mins, Breakout Room Three)
Friday, November 4, 2016
Concurrent Sessions 4 (11:00 am - 12:00 pm)
- Leveraging the Magic of Mentors AND Experience Today/Imagine Tomorrow: Engaging our Communities in Celebrating Canada's 150th (30 mins each, Breakout Room One)
- Museum Intercultural Education Program (60 mins, Breakout Room Two)
- Discovering Kaná:ta AND Mobilizing a Community Museum: First World War Comes to Life Travelling Exhibition Case Study (30 mins each, Breakout Room Three)
Concurrent Sessions 5 (1:00 pm - 1:45 pm)
- Maximizing Millennials in Ontario's Museum (45 mins, Breakout Room One)
- OMA Aboriginal Collections, TBC (45 mins, Breakout Room Two)
- In a Manner of Speaking: Why Language Matters in Museums (45 mins, Breakout Room Three)
Concurrent Sessions 6 (2:15 pm - 3:00 pm)
- Who Writes the Story of Mississauga? (45 mins, Breakout Room One)
- Animating History Sites & Museums: Creating Innovative Programming in Evocative Historic Spaces (45 mins, Breakout Room Two)
- What's in a Number? Deconstructing Statistics (45 mins, Breakout Room Three)
Additional Events and Activities
Please check here if you are interested in participating in the Trivia Night on Thursday, November 3 after the Awards Reception (Location TBC)
Please check here if you are an Emerging Museum Professional (i.e. in the first ten years of your museum career)
Please check here if you are interested in learning more about participating in Conference Connections, our program which matches Emerging Museum Professionals with established museum professionals during the conference
