1 May 2024 | 9:00am-10:00am | Online
REGISTERIt doesn't have to be lonely at the top! Join fellow executive directors and senior staff for an informal problem-solving group. Meet periodically to network, share insights, and tackle challenges together. Whether you are a museum staff of one or one hundred, build a community of museum leaders through collaborative discussions and actionable solutions.
Hosted by Lydia Heins, Executive Director of the Coos Art Museum and OMA Board Member
Additional dates: August 21, November 13
15 May 2024 | 12:00pm-1:00pm | Online
REGISTERAre you a museum professional who focuses on fundraising, communications, or both? Join this meet up to learn more about the work of others, share ideas and events, workshop drafts, learn more about each other's work, and build a statewide community for these key roles! Open to folks of all experience levels, museum types, and locations!
Hosted by Peter Kukla, Community Engagement Director of the Eugene Science Center and OMA Board President
Affinity Groups are a new program in 2024 - learn more here!
Host a meet up |
OMA meet up at Cascade Locks Historical Museum, August 2022 | OMA supports regional meet ups across the state, which can be casual or more structured. Help us plan meet ups across the stateWe're looking for folks to host OMA meet ups across the state. OMA meet ups are informal and engaging opportunities to connect and network with fellow professionals in the museum world. They are an opportunity for people to share successes and struggles, pitch new ideas and ask questions, and to find support and inspiration. Above all though, we want to create a space for museum and museum-adjacent professionals to have the time to simply meet and have fun! Meet ups are what you make them! You can choose one of the following formats (or make up your own!):
If you are interested in hosting a meet up, please email us at connect@oregonmuseums.org. |
February 29, 2024 - In-person, Salem
May 24, 2023 - In-person, Independence
May 18, 2023 - In-person, Eugene
May 12, 2023 - In-person, Corvallis
March 20, 2023 - In-person, Eugene
March 23, 2023 - In-person, Portland
October 2022 - OMA in-person Meet Up at the WMA Annual Meeting
September 19, 2022 - Educators Virtual Meet Up
August 28, 2022 - OMA in-person meet up at Cascade Locks Historical Museum
March 30, 2022 - OMA Virtual Meet Up: Supporting volunteers
February 24, 2022 - OMA Virtual Meet Up: Advocacy
October 14, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Collections Management
July 23, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Reopening
May 17, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Tours at the ZMA (Zoom Museum of Art)
March 25, 2021 - OMA Meet Up: Checking Volunteer Vitals
January 21, 2021 - OMA Lunchtime Meet Up- Zoom
October 21, 2020 - OMA Happy Hour Meet Up - Zoom
July 23, 2020 - OMA virtual Summer Soirée Meet Up - Zoom
November 7, 2019 - PDX Museum Meet Up - Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
October 29, 2019 - Museums of the Gorge Meet Up - Klickitat, WA
September 26, 2019 - PDX Museum Meet Up - World of Speed, Wilsonville, OR
September 15, 2019 - Meet Up and no-host dinner, John Day, OR
June 13, 2019 - PDX Museum Meet Up, Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Hillsboro, OR
April 23, 2019 - Meet Up after Arts & Culture Advocacy Day, Salem, OR
April 15, 2019 - Meet up with SWOMA - Flotsam & Jetsam - Determining the importance of shipwrecks and their debris on Oregon's beaches, Florence, OR