IMA Plugged-In is a free monthly opportunity for museum professionals and volunteers to connect around topics of interest to the museum field.
IMA Plugged-In is provided by the Iowa Museum Association the third Monday of the month at noon. This one-hour opportunity to lunch, learn, and engage varies from facilitated conversations to presentations.
Sessions presented in 2023 will be placed here after they are presented live.
How to write an HRDP grant application. Jared McDonald, Madison County Historical Complex and Angela Stanford, Advanced Museum Services, have both written and reviewed HRDP grant applications. This session will help you write a more successful application. Sponsored by The Dickinson Vaults.
Tour Guide Training 2.0. Montauk Historic Site is evolving its focus away from objects and to themes and personal stories. Hannah Frederick, Montauk Historic Site Coordinator. Sponsored by The Dickinson Vaults.
Overview of the IMLS CAP Program. The Collections Assessment for Conservation (CAP) program is designed to help small and mid-sized museums better care for their collections. A CAP assessment is a study of an institution’s collections, buildings, and building systems, as well as its collections care policies and procedures. The assessment involves a site visit by collections and building assessors, who spend two days touring the museum and interviewing staff and governing officials. The assessors then prepare a comprehensive report that outlines recommendations for improving collections care. Tara Templeman, Curator, the History Center and Hannah Frederick, Montauk Historic Site Coordinator. Sponsored by The Dickinson Vaults.
Exhibit Refresh with Tim Wren, Edwards Creative.
Archives 101. Speakers: Kate Levasseur, Archivist, World Food Prize and Cheyenne Jansdatter, Archives Manager & Outreach Associate, Museum of Danish America.
Helpful Links
Society of American Archivists
Collections management resources
Consortium of Iowa Archivists (note this website is out of date)
Preservation Oaks Podcast “Who Needs an Archivist?” with Cheyenne Jansdatter.
The Spectrum Project combines music, movement, drama and art for children with differing abilities. Productions are created by the ideas of the performers with direction from college students. For more information http://www.spectrumproject.org Kevin Droe, Coordinator, Spectrum Project, University of Northern Iowa.
Overcoming the Barriers to Museum Fundraising Success. Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, CFRE, CNP, for a presentation focused on actionable solutions to common fundraising problems. Chad will reveal the most common barriers to effective fundraising at the museums that he as served and provide tips for overcoming them. Attendees will also be given free access to document samples and templates which will help to fast track the implementation of these solutions. Ample time will be reserved for questions so that attendees can also pick Chad’s brain for solutions to their “not so common” museum fundraising challenges. Chad Barger, CFRE, CNP
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Recognizing Opportunities to provide Access. Semehar Ghebrekidan is the Community Inclusion Liaison for Sioux City, Iowa, assessing community needs across a spectrum of areas and providing training to build awareness of those needs and how they can be addressed. Semehar will share examples from her collaborations with the Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City Museum, Sioux City Library and others, relating to building awareness of opportunities and steps that can be taken to address identified needs.
LEED Certified Museum Spaces: Christian Peterson Art Museum Case Study Allison Sheridan, University Museums and Kerry A. Dixon, ENGIE North America, Program Manager, Capital Improvements
Museum Exhibits and the creative process. Tim Wren, Edwards Creative, discusses the steps in the creative process toward a new museum exhibit.
Accessibility in Historic Buildings. Speaker will present low budget options for making historic buildings more accessible, including pre-visit web resources. Hannah Frederick, Montauk Historic Site Coordinator.
Nature Center Programming – planning in an unpredictable environment. Kari Sandage, Naturalist at Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center.