Giving Tuesday: Your day to Celebrate the Ontario Museum Community

nov 29, 2022

November 29, 2022

Giving Tuesday

Your day to celebrate the Ontario Museum community

On November 29, 2022, the Ontario Museum Association is taking time to celebrate the Ontario museum community. Please join us in celebrating by making a gift today!

You can contribute to the Ontario museum community and support of the Ontario Museum Association by making a donation to:
- OMA's 50th Anniversary campaign
- Paul O. Robertson Memorial Bursary

Giving matters because it helps the Ontario Museum Association advocate for the vital role of Ontario's museums to society, promote emerging best practices through professional development, strengthen a collaborative network of museums, and foster a culture of innovation and excellence.

As pandemic challenges persist, the Ontario Museum Association continues to support museums across the province as they work to reopen safely and renew community relationships. Together with partners, the OMA presents webinars in response to the current challenges facing museums, including how to care for heritage collections, navigating federal support programs, approaches to online engagement and reopening planning.

In this critical time, the OMA launched initiatives to support the digital transformation of Ontario museums. An ongoing collaboration with George Brown College serves to embrace forward thinking and consider new approaches to help envision a museum of the future in a digital world. The OMA has formed a Museum Digital Advisory Committee engaged in these digital initiatives including the Small Bytes: Supporting Digitization in Ontario’s Smaller and Rural Museums initiative - providing accessible, high-quality online training opportunities to build digital capacity and skills.

We encourage you to give in a way that fits your preference.
Every contribution adds to the collective strength of our sector!

Donate today!

OMA's 50th Anniversary

2022 is the Ontario Museum Association’s 50th Anniversary! We are celebrating 50 years of advancing a strong museum sector for Ontario with staff and volunteers from the province’s 700 museums, galleries, and heritage sites.

Whether you choose to give the price of a cup of coffee or donate $50 for 50 years, any and all donations are appreciated. Donations can be made through the OMA’s CanadaHelps page, available here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/72963?v1=true

Celebratory Messages

Tell us about a fond memory you have of the OMA:

Thank you for your advocacy on our behalf - big or small

Learning how to pivot together during COVID

The OMA was the first organization my professor presented to our class (back in 2017). It was wonderful to attend first conference, network with my class and create relationships. So excited to be back in person!

What is your future wish for the OMA and/or Ontario museums?

50 more years of bright museum stars

Donate HERE

Watch a video message HERE!

Paul O. Robertson Memorial Bursary

The Ontario Museum Association is proud to recognize a significant legacy with the announcement of the Paul O. Robertson Memorial Bursary. The bursary will be awarded to one or more OMA Conference delegates who identify as members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and as emerging museum professionals, in order to support their attendance and participation in the Ontario Museum Association's annual conference.

To honour Paul’s legacy, donations to the Ontario Museum Association Paul O. Robertson Memorial Bursary can be made through the OMA’s CanadaHelps page, available here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/m/76096

Donate HERE

Ontario Museum Association
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Phone: 416-348-8672

As an organization of provincial scope, the Ontario Museum Association recognizes that its members and community live and work on the lands and territories of Indigenous peoples. Toronto, where the OMA offices are located, is the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Haudenosaunee and the Huron Wendat. We wish to express our gratitude for the resources we are using and pay respect to the rich and ongoing Indigenous history of what is now Ontario and Canada.

Our Mission

The Ontario Museum Association strengthens capacity among institutions and individuals active in Ontario’s museum sector, facilitates excellence and best practices, and improves the communication and collaboration of its membership. The Association advocates for the important role of Ontario’s museums to society, working with all stakeholders, related sectors and industries, and other professional organizations.

Our mailing address is:

Ontario Museum Association

50 Baldwin Street

Toronto, Ontario M5T 1L4

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