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How does I LOVE NY support New York's museums? What could our future look like if we created a financially sustainable business model that linked finance and communications? How are museums building stronger relationships with their communities? What are museums doing to create more inclusive narratives? Meet MANY Online is a series of virtual programs that feature some of the top-rated sessions from the 2023 conference, led by museum professionals across New York State and beyond. Virtual programs are free; advance registration required. Additional programs to be announced. |
| Tell Me What You Want (What You Really, Really Want): An Honest Conversation about Constituent Engagement Friday, December 1, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST Despite thoughtful planning, the Historic House Trust of New York City and the Greater Hudson Heritage Network found that their recently completed History Unpaused project yielded unanticipated results. Using the successes and challenges of the project as a case study, this webinar will explore the widely relevant and perennial question of "how do we know what our constituents want?" |
| Conversations About Community Engagement, Audience Diversification, and Relationship Building Friday, January 26, 2024 12 - 1:30 PM EST This webinar will explore strategies for gathering input and feedback from current and potential stakeholders as well as explore how partnerships can be developed to attract new audiences. Participants will hear how the Southold Historical Museum used a survey to gather stakeholder input and thought strategically about the strategies, time, and effort needed to build mutually beneficial and trusting relationships with new partners and stakeholders. It will further share how the New York State Canal Corporation (NYSCC) and the Erie Canal Museum (ECM) are partnering to attract new audiences to the Erie Canal through new research on the untold stories of the Canal, public art, and the highlighting of Canal infrastructure. |
Previous webinarsClick here to watch previous webinars. Must be logged into your MANY profile to access. |
| New York State Tourism Update with I LOVE NY Friday, July 7, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST Museums continue to be a vital part of New York State's tourism ecosystem. As the official destination marketing organization for New York State, I LOVE NY works hard through programs, initiatives, and enhancements to inspire travel domestically and internationally to NYS museums and other cultural attractions. Ross Levi, Empire State Development Vice President and Executive Director of I LOVE NY/ New York State Division of Tourism will share how tourism programs like I LOVE NY Black Travel, Accessible NY, I LOVE NY LGBTQ, Path Through History, and the Market New York Grant Program can enhance museums' economic impact in their communities and beyond. |
| Communicating the Value of Museums Friday, July 14, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST Hillarie Logan-Dechene, Deputy Director, The Wild Center invites attendees to join her to discuss the proposition that the museum sector’s central challenge is communicating value to stakeholders, funders, visitors, and communities. Museums dedicate significant human resources to justifying relevance, impact, community service, and investment in collections or programs. What if those resources could be allocated to doing the work instead of chasing funding for our next project? What could our future look like if we created a financially sustainable business model that linked finance and communications? How could that business model be easily understood and embraced? Come and share your ideas to build a better future for the museum sector. |
| Bringing Inclusive Digital Materials into the Classroom Friday, July 21, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST Creating digital collections can sometimes feel like you’re building a field of dreams that you hope will be used. Getting your resources into classrooms can be especially challenging. Consider The Source is an online community that connects educators across New York State to the valuable primary sources and materials found in museums and other repositories. This session will describe the challenges and successes of Consider the Source’s recent IMLS-funded expansion and focus on underrepresented communities. Participating educators will offer feedback from using local history primary sources in their curriculum. |
| Change is Still Required: What's Next? Friday, August 11, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST As we all hunger for honest and authentic reflection and need to collectively acknowledge the uncertainty of our times, it is important that we retain our hopes and aspirations and take steps (even incrementally) towards positive change. Panelists will discuss current issues in the museum field from the perspective of their contributions to the recently published collection of essays Change is Required: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Museum. Topics will include managing work/life balance, crafting effective communications, and creating positive, rewarding, and inclusive organizational cultures. |
| The ACEGen Model - Access, Collaboration, and Equity in Genealogy Collections and Research Friday, August 18, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST The ACEGen - the Access, Collaboration, and Equity in Genealogy Initiative, is a collaboration between repositories, organizations, and the public to improve access and equity in Staten Island's family history records. Project partners Gabriella Leone of the Staten Island Museum and Debbie-Ann Paige of the Staten Island Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical society will share how ACEGen uses digitization, transcription, and dialogue to build strong institutional relationships, engage participants online and in person, and center equity and inclusion work. |
 | Centering Historic Preservation in Community: Planning, Funding, Interpreting the Work Friday, August 25, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST The Oneida Community Mansion House and the Preservation League of New York State will host a webinar to discuss the challenges of preserving historic structures. The session will share one site's journey to address a building's needs with limited resources. Learn how the Oneida Community Mansion House–the home of the utopian Oneida Community--interprets the preservation of historic structures for wider public audiences. Further conversations will explore ways in which sites can approach planning for and funding historic preservation projects. |
| Prison Prisms: Reflections on Prison History and Criminal Justice Reform in NYS through the Lens of Auburn, Attica, and Sing Sing Friday, September 8, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST These three prisons recently embarked on explorations of their complicated narratives using the exhibition format. These exhibitions include uncovering difficult and often disturbing stories as viewed from those both on the outside and the inside. This panel includes leaders across the field, formerly incarcerated people, as well as those engaged in monitoring and reporting on the NYS correctional systems, and will take a deep dive into this often hidden world. |
| The Northern Slavery Collective: How Museums and Historic Sites are Joining Forces to Collaborate on Interpreting the History of Enslavement Friday, September 22, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST The Northern Slavery Collective (NorSC) is a group of museum professionals and academics dedicated to researching and interpreting the history of enslaved people and the practice of enslavement in the Northern United States. A panel of professionals will discuss the challenges that member institutions faced in their journey to create a more inclusive narrative and how they have worked creatively to overcome them. The panel will begin with a brief introduction to NorSC and each panelist’s institutions and then move into a question and answer session. |
| Centering Cultural Competency Friday, October 6, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST Join three museum leaders to learn about and discuss how to commit to Cultural Competency, a framework to mitigate organizational bias through immersive learning experiences. Presenters will share strategies that improve internal operations, cultural awareness, knowledge, understanding, and cultural literacy. Discussion will focus on commitment to growth, how to cultivate a sense of belonging within our institutions, and implementing actions that address public discontent with diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and justice. |
| Rediscovering and Leveraging Your Museum Collection Friday, October 13, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST Rediscovering and Leveraging Your Museum Collection will explain how, over the past seven years, the Everson Museum curatorial and collections staff have implemented forty-two innovative exhibitions primarily featuring work from the Museum's collection as a way to increase access to collection objects and as a collections management tool. This session will provide concrete examples and statistics from Everson Museum exhibitions in order to give attendees strategies to apply at their respective museums. |
 | Are You Still Lecturing? How to Engage Students with Primary Sources Using Visual Thinking Strategies Friday, October 20, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST As primary sources, three-dimensional artifacts represent an opportunity to explore difficult topics with diverse students in the classroom. Participants will work with educators and historians from the NYS Museum and classroom educators to explore ways to implement Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) when analyzing three-dimensional objects as primary sources to engage all students. Attendees will gain insight into choosing artifacts from their own collections that resonate with curriculum requirements and that address the stories of marginalized and under represented New Yorkers. |
| Social Media Savvy: Thinking Big, Working Smart Friday, October 27, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST In an increasingly digital landscape, the ability to use social media as a tool for building communities and driving followers to take action is becoming increasingly important, if not essential, for museums. Social media allows institutions to speak directly to their constituents, but also affords the ability to reach a much larger audience than those who walk through your doors. While the possibilities can seem endless it may also feel overwhelming. This session explores the basics of establishing a strong digital community, creating content using existing resources, showcasing collections, building followership, and motivating digital audiences to take action online. |
| From Crisis to Community Anchor: One Institution's Journey Toward Transformation Friday, November 3, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST After a decade-long restoration, Historic Cherry Hill found itself in a period of crisis—with inadequate resources, a reduced public profile, pronounced donor fatigue, and disconnection from its local community. For Cherry Hill, “finding center” was a process of self-study in order to identify our value to existing and potential stakeholders; find the intersection between our mission and the needs of our community; align board and staff structure with institutional needs and capacity; and share the stories in our collections most meaningful to contemporary audiences. This session will discuss three transformational initiatives imbedded in strategic planning and audience evaluation. |
| Decolonizing the Collection and Spiritual Care of Artworks Friday, November 17, 2023 12 - 1:30 PM EST As with many historical collections of artworks, there are certain works in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s collection that are culturally inappropriate in today’s context. This could include their subject matter, their mediums, or their institutional cataloguing and titles. The Artworks Renaming Initiative addresses these problematic pieces by giving new names to identified artworks with the assistance of Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers, and language keepers. The Renaming project was an initiative that directly addressed the UNDRIP and tangibly incorporated Indigenous knowledge into the cannon of art history and the art institution. This renaming project is now complete but we anticipate similar and ongoing projects to arise as we work more closely with our collection. |
Accessibility MANY is committed to making our virtual programs as accessible as possible. All virtual programs will have ASL interpretation provided by Interpretek.
Virtual programs are made possible by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. |
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