2024 KMA Conference - Request for Session Proposals is Now Open!

The Kansas Museums Association is very pleased to open the Request for Session Proposals for the 2024 KMA Conference!   This year's conference theme is Reconnect and Rediscover Kansas, and we invite you to bring your knowledge, expertise, and experience to present a workshop or session in Fort Scott, November 6-8, 2024.

Applications are due Friday, June 14 at 5:00 pm

More information about KMA Session Proposals

Need some inspiration?  The following topics were requested in the post-conference survey of attendees at KMA's 2023 Conference:

Collections:

• Inventory of collections, especially AAM requirements
• Storage solutions
• Collections digitization
• Collections 101: (especially accessioning)
• Archives/libraries
• Historic preservation
• Conservation
• Hands on: how to unfurl a photo
• Care for textiles and artifacts
• Collection and exhibition ethics

Exhibits:

• Exhibits: design, construction, resources for supplies
• Hands on: how to build budget friendly displays, wiring, construction
• Pop up displays
• Signage at different price points
• Copyright: fair use, permission, crediting requirements

Programming/Events:

• STEAM: ideas for programming
• Collaborating with other organizations – focus on contracts, agreements, permissions
• Education planning 101
• Education outreach 
• Activities and programming: children
• Activities and programming: seniors

• Activities and programming: adults

   

Finance:

• Donations vs membership
• Creative fundraising
• Strategies for funding operational expenses

• Gift shops

   

Administration:

• How to keep small rural museums viable
• Community engagement
• Boards: development, responsibilities, communication, running meetings
• Entrepreneurial leadership
• Basic considerations for new museum space
• How to attract volunteers
• Basics of running an all-volunteer museum
• Disaster response
• Collaborations with other museums in your area to provide support and share resources and expertise