NEMA Annual Conference 99th Annual NEMA Conference

(continued from page 11) How Augmented Reality Can Enhance Your Visitor Experience Many museums got their first taste of augmented reality (AR) when Pokémon GO players invaded their spaces last year. But AR is way more than Pokémon! Is it the future of your museum experience? Find out in this dynamic session designed to put you on the cutting edge. Learn how to charm your visitors by having their mobile phones automatically recognize exhibits and launch interactive guides, provide fun and factual interactive guides that visitors can personalize to their interests, expand exhibit content through crowdsourced reactions, and save some trees in the process! This session is 60 minutes. Facilitator: Pradeep Aradhya, CEO, Novus Laurus, LLC Major Gifts Deep Dive In this session, you will take a deep dive into major gifts, from how to think about the work to strategies to ensure that the cultivation, solicitation, and close are successful. Facilitator: Laura Ewing-Mahoney, Co-Founder and Principal, Sage Advancement Group, MA Museum/Classroom Management: Balancing Learning and Logistics in School Programming Museum educators face many logistical challenges in creating a community of learning when leading “one- off” school programs. In this session you’ll collaborate with seasoned museum and classroom educators to identify barriers to learning for students in the museum; sharing and developing concrete strategies for quickly establishing a rapport with students, CAREER CONVERSATION WITH WENDY LULL 11:00 am – Noon teachers, and adult chaperones and addressing challenging behaviors; and transferring these lessons to frontline staff training. Facilitators: Erik Berg, Teacher, Boston Public Schools, MA; Brianne Cassetta, Park Ranger, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, MA; Nicole Claris, Manager of School Programs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Michelle LeBlanc, Director of Education, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, MA, Elisabeth Nevins, Principal, Seed Education Consulting, MA Mysteries & Revelations: Finding Truth in Cape Cod’s Museum Treasures In this time of “alternative facts” and wide-spread suspicion of what is “true,” do museums have increased responsibility to be guardians of accuracy? How do we find the truth? Do we ever present less than “the whole truth” for political reasons or to accommodate donors? Using examples from the Cape-wide collaborative “Mysteries and Revelations” exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art you’ll hear from our panelists, who represent diverse museums across Cape Cod, and get a chance to voice your opinion. Facilitator: Edith A. Tonelli, Ph.D., Director, Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA The Price, the Value, and the IRS: What are Collections Worth? Learn what a qualified appraisal includes: the differences in values used, why auction house value is not necessarily appropriate, insuring collections, and how appraisals are used for tax purposes. Whether you deal with gifts, charitable contributions or insurance for your collections, this is valuable information for your effectiveness. Plus, we all deal with insurance and family estates in our personal lives at some point, so learn the tools to make those decisions easier too. Facilitators: Darlene A. Bialowski, Principal, Darlene Bialowski Art Services, LLC, NH; Robert F. Salmon, Managing Director, Willis Towers Watson, MD; John A. McBrine, Esquire, Nutter McClennen & Fish, LLP, MA Join Wendy Lull, Executive Director Emeritus of the Seacoast Science Center and this year’s recipient of NEMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, for a look at her distinguished career and a discussion of working Reaching for Truth: in the museu m field. At the helm of the SSC since it opened in Exploring the Issue of 1992, Wendy is an ocean education champion who understands Revolutionary-Era Slavery the importance of science education for everyone. Milestones in a New England Historic Site during her tenure include over $3M of capital improvements and The act of re-imagining and the Center’s signature exhibition on the ecology of Gulf of Maine dramatizing the past can provide whales with the largest collection of whale skeletons on public a powerful vehicle for dialogue display in northern New England. Wendy did her undergraduate work on critical historical issues. Staff at Oakland University in Michigan, and earned her Master’s Degree and consultants working at the in Zoology at the University of New Hampshire. She has served on Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden numerous boards (including NEMA) and has been recognized as an will discuss how they have Outstanding Women in Business by New Hampshire Business Review and used this approach with high one of New Hampshire’s Women of Distinction by New Hampshire Magazine. school students to examine the Petition of Freedom 12 99th Annual NEMA Conference

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