Our lead museum consultant, Alisha Cole, has spent the past few weeks planning a two-day conference for Missouri museum people. This will be the first of what I hope will be annual or semi-annual conferences to help people learn how to make their museums more interesting to visitors, fast! We're sponsoring the conference in partnership with the Museum Educators' Roundtable in Kansas City.
Conference venues include The National Frontier Trails Museum, the Bingham-Waggoner Estate, and the Chicago-Alton Depot. There will be a registration fee for non-MER members to cover the cost of dinner Friday evening at the Bingham-Waggoner Estate. A lot of motel choices are available nearby, and we're hoping to arrange some extended opportunities for people who want to stay over Saturday night and tour some sites on Sunday. MHC will handle conference registration, etc. There's a limit of 75 participants. We'll have details on our web site.
The working title is "Techniques of Attracting Repeat Visits by Adults, Families, and Schools." Alisha has recruited outstanding talent for this workshop, and I'm hopeful that we'll draw people from local and county museums and historic houses from all over Missouri and Kansas. The program will be built around what we consider the "gold standard" of visitor-centered and school-centered thinking in the museum field. People from the Conner Prairie Living History Museum and the Virginia Association of Museums will be joined by curriculum specialists from Missouri and Kansas.
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