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• MOMCC Spring 2025 Conference

  • Start
    06 Mar 2025
  • End
    08 Mar 2025
  • Location
    Kansas City

  MOMCC Spring 2025 Conference

  
  

  It never hurts to revisit fundamentals, especially as we refresh for a new season and prepare for the upcoming America250 initiative. Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm and Shawnee Town 1929 welcome museum professionals, volunteers, historians, and enthusiasts to the Kansas City metro in March of 2025 for the Midwest Open-Air Museums Coordinating Council's spring conference.

  With two dozen possible sessions, one dozen workshops, and some incredible field trip opportunities, you'll have the chance to explore everything from 19th-century textiles to 1920s automobiles, from Freeman Tilden's "Principles of Interpretation" to reworking school programs for COVID kids.

  Registration is now open at https://momcc.org/Conferences

  Early Bird Registrations (Closes January 31):
  - MOMCC, ALHFAM, Mnt Plains, or FFHNA members - $130.00
  - Non-members - $160.00
  - Full-time student registration - $65.00

  Regular Conference Registrations (February 1 - February 28)
  - MOMCC, ALHFAM, Mnt Plains, or FFHNA members – $160.00
  - Non-Members – $190.00
  - Full-time student registration - $65.00

  Conference A La Carte Registrations
  - Thursday (sessions, lunch, and dinner) - $75.00
  - Friday (sessions and dinner) - $75.00
  - Friday (dinner only) – $25.00
  - Saturday (sessions) – $40.00

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• SEALHFAM Spring 2025 Conference

  • Start
    14 Mar 2025
  • End
    16 Mar 2025
  • Location
    Sergeant Alvin C. York State Park, Tennessee
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  Taking Living History Over the Top
  SEALHFAM Regional Conference

  March 14 - 16, 2025

  Pall Mall, Tennessee

  
  

  
  

  Hosted at Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park

  We are constantly creating interpretive programs, but what takes those programs to the next level? How do we create programs that leave lasting impressions on our visitors? We need to use interpretive methods that allow our visitors to immerse their senses and emotions throughout our programs and events. Grab your gear and climb out of the trenches with us as we “Take Living History Over the Top” at Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park.

  As we climb out of the trenches, we want to focus on those developments made on the farm, in rural areas, and in agriculture around the turn of the 20th century, as well as the improvements that emerged from the Great War.

  Download the full conference brochure here.

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• MOMCC 2025 Fall Conference

  • Start
    06 Nov 2025
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  • End
    08 Nov 2025
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  • Location
    Arthur, Illinois

  MOMCC Fall Conference

  November 6-8, 2025
  Preserving History Through Living History

  Hosted by: The Illinois Amish Heritage Center, Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site, & the Five Mile House Foundation in Arthur, Lerna, & Charleston, Illinois

  Proposals now being accepted.

  Living History, beginning in the latter part of the 20th century, radically changed how history is taught, from traditional museum settings to experiential, hands-on learning, that opened new vistas in Museum education. In addition to living history museums, cultures such as the Amish have also pre-served many of the ways and traditions of the 19th and early 20th century. Both living history muse-ums and the Amish have adapted to changing times but are still preserving technologies and traditions.

  The Conference organizers are looking for speakers, sessions, and workshops that are relevant to this broad theme. Session and workshop topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • How traditions and technological innovations have combined to help both the Amish and living history museums adapt and move forward.
  • Historic crafts, trades, and skills.
  • Topics related to living history museum operation
  • Programming in the current and evolving social climate
  • Staffing and volunteers
  • Working with schools and meeting educational objectives
  • Working with boards, administrations, staff, and community
  • Marketing in a changing digital world
  • Museum and exhibit design and implementation
  • Collections management
  • Disaster planning and preparedness
  • Private and public partnerships
  • Fundraising and grant writing

  Session proposals should be submitted by February 10, 2025

  Submit proposals to Tom Vance

  tsevance@mchsi.com ❖ Phone (217) 549-1845

  1314 Audrey Lane, Charleston, Illinois 61920

  Download the Application Now.

  
  

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