August 19, 2020

THE STRATEGIC MUSEUM: MISSION IN COMMUNITY

Registration is now open for our 2020 Virtual Statewide Museum Conference. The conference begins next Monday morning, August 24. You can join us for some or all of the conference that features speakers each day at 9:30 a.m. through August 28.

Our Virtual Conference is “Pay What You Wish." We have also recently added a discussion with Chad Barger about fundraising trends to the schedule for Tuesday, August 25.

PA Museums has arranged for Communications Access Real-Time Translation (CART) services for programming on Friday, August 28. CART makes communication more accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing through live transcription of speech to text provided by a trained operator.  
MEMBERSHIP

The American Swedish Historical Museum is looking for an Education and Public Relations Manager. If your organization has an opening, please send it our way.

PA Museums has been celebrating our 2020 Special Achievement Awards the past two weeks. We hope you have enjoyed seeing the announcements, and we encourage you to consider sending us a nomination for our 2021 awards. Nominations will open in September.

PA Museums' membership includes institutions, businesses that work with museums, and individual. Our association has advocated for museums and served our membership since 1905 with programs like our annual conference. We invite you to join PA Museums today if you would like to support our work. We appreciate our members, and thank you for being a part of PA Museums.

PA MUSEUMS IN THE NEWS

Pennlive reported on how museums are faring, and PA Museums contributed our concerns.

WESA explored how Pittsburgh's museums are dealing with losses in revenue and slumps in attendance.

WHYY covered the Philadelphia Museum of Art's reopening plans, and its workers' vote to unionize.

Congratulations to Pennsylvania's organizations named to receive funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in their xxxx and xxxx grant programs.

WHYY reported that the Please Touch Museum will remain closed until 2021.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette put the spotlight on Cecile Shellman's work towards museum inclusiveness.

Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History made headlines with one of their best-selling gift shop items.

The Michener Art Museum was included in a national story about how museums are approaching reopening.
SUPPORT FOR YOUR MUSEUM

The IMLS has announced it is accepting applications for 6 of its grants programs. The deadline for all is November 16, 2020.

The grant awards for IMLS' CARES Act Grants for Museums and Libraries will be announced in September. The agency received more than 1,600 applications for $13,800,000 in available funding. 
RECOMMENDED

Joan Baldwin shared a message to museum boards to step up and lean in at Leadership Matters.

We read about the recent discovery in Pittsburgh of a cache of Civil War era cannonballs.

Colleen Dilenschneider looked into the importance of an organization's reputation.