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2010 Annual Winter Conference
Small Museum Association 26th Annual Conference
Sunday, February 21 – Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Ocean City, Maryland
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The SMA conference attracts more than 200 museum professionals every year from a wide variety of small museums. Attendees go to sessions on topics ranging from collections and education to staffing and board issues. We offer a large Museum Resource Hall and plenty of informal networking opportunities for you to talk with (and get ideas from!) small museum professionals and volunteers.
The SMA honors two individuals at every conference with the Hunter-Burley Award and the Small Museum Association Award.
Nominations are being accepted for the 2010 Small Museum Association Awards through December 15, 2009.
The Hunter-Burley Award for Contributions towards Increased Public Accessibility and Professional Growth of an Institution recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the advancement of public access and the professional growth of an individual institution.
The SMA Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Small Museum Community recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the advancement of funding for, personal growth within, and/or the accessibility of information to the small museum field on a regional or state level.
Both awards will be presented at the 2010 Small Museum Association Conference February 21-23, 2010, Ocean City, Md. To receive a nomination form by email, please email Sarah Hagarty at museum.cchs@gmail.com.
Click here to download information about the awards.
The SMA also offers 10 Lesley Van der Lee scholarships for new attendees.
Small Museum Association Lesley van der Lee Conference Scholarships are being accepted through December 15, 2010.
The SMA Annual Conference Scholarship has been established to offer funding for ten SMA Conference attendees. The scholarship will cover the cost of the conference registration, room, meals and a one-year membership in the SMA. Anyone affiliated with a museum, library, historical society, or related graduate study program (e.g. Museum Studies, Public History, Library and Information Studies, Historic Preservation) may apply. This includes students, interns, full-time or part-time employees, and volunteers. To receive a copy of the scholarship application by email, please email Sarah Hagarty at museum.cchs@gmail.com.
Click here for an application.
The Call for Proposals (CfP) for the 2010 conference is ready to download! We are looking for museum professionals and volunteers who feel that they have something vital to share with the broader small museum community! Please click here to download the 2010 CfP.
Registration Materials now available. Click here to download the 2010 pre-conference registration program. On-line registration available through Paypal.
Fill out and email the registration form (click here) with the same email address as paying with Paypal to Dayna Aldridge at daldridge@constellation.org. Email Dayna with any questions.
The Small Museum Association Annual Conference is held each year at the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland.
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Resort Fontainebleau Hotel (Directions)
Further information about reserving a room at the hotel is available in the registration materials.
Museum Resource Hall and Sponsorships/Advertising
Museum Resource Hall Information and Contract
If you are interested in participating, please download these materials for more information.
Sponsorship and Advertising Opportunities
DEADLINES:
Commitments for each sponsorship opportunity must be received by 1 December 2009
Ad copy for the pre-conference mailer must be received by 1 October 2009 (no exceptions!)
Ad copy for the conference program must be received by 15 January 2010 (no exceptions!)
Advertising rates (pre-conference mailer and or conference program):
- Business-card size: $50
- Quarter page: $100
- Half page: $250
- Full page: $500
You can now purchase an advertisement space on-line by selecting from the following. Please email Jason Illari at jillari@cityofbowie.org after you have ordered your ad.
Sponsorship categories (there are multiple individual opportunities for most categories):
*All sponsorships will be recognized in the program schedule
*Each level receives the benefits of those above it, plus additional benefits as noted
*Three options are available for Museum Resource Hall booths: Options 1 and 2 are for an exhibit-only booth either for Sunday and Monday ($150) or for Sunday through Tuesday ($200); and Option 3 is for the full conference package: Sunday through Tuesday, with a pass to attend sessions and eat conference-provided meals ($250; an extra person is $100). See the Museum Resource Hall contract for details.
$100—Sign at the assigned conference room (sponsor must provide); business-card size ad
- Conference room: $100 each (there are five rooms, each of which hold six conference sessions, plus a roundtable discussion)
$250—Banner (sponsor must provide) at the appropriate location; quarter-page ad
- Coffee Break (Monday morning)
- Ice Cream Social (Monday afternoon)
$500—Recognition by the SMA conference chair during the appropriate meal; half-page ad
- Lunch (Monday)
- Keynote (breakfast on Monday)
- Plenary (breakfast on Tuesday)
$750—Recognition by the SMA conference chair during banquet; full-page ad
- Idea Lounge (in the Resource Hall; full conference)
- Registration and Information Table (full conference)
- Museum Resource Hall (full conference)
$1,000—Opportunity to address attendees at appropriate event
- Wine & Cheese Reception (Sunday evening)
- SMA Banquet (Monday evening)
You can now purchase sponsorship on-line by selecting from the following. Please email Jason Illari at jillari@cityofbowie.org after you have ordered
Learn more about previous conferences by clicking any of the following:
2009 - coming soon!
2008 - coming soon!
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