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2025 Small Museum Association Annual Conference Attendee Registration

  • 17 Feb 2025
  • 19 Feb 2025
  • Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center, 9751 Washingtonian Blvd, Gaithersburg, MD 20878

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:
  • Complimentary registration for members of the SMA Conference Committee. To be kept disabled and accessible by administrators only.
  • Full Registration includes all sessions (Mon-Wed) and meals (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet and Wednesday breakfast).
  • Guest Meal Package includes all meals for the full conference (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet and Wednesday breakfast).
  • Full Student Registration includes all sessions (Mon-Wed) and meals (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet, and Wednesday breakfast). Please email a copy of your ID to registration@smallmuseum.org
    for verification.
  • Includes admission to Tuesday Banquet.
  • Full Registration includes all sessions (Mon-Wed) and meals (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet and Wednesday breakfast).
  • Guest Meal Package Registration includes all meals for the full conference (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet and Wednesday breakfast).
  • Includes Monday sessions.
  • Full Student Registration includes all sessions (Mon-Wed) and meals (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet, and Wednesday breakfast). Please email a copy of your ID to registration@smallmuseum.org
    for verification.
  • Includes Tuesday sessions and meals (breakfast, lunch, and banquet).
  • Includes Wednesday sessions and breakfast.
  • Includes admission to Tuesday banquet.
  • Full Registration includes all sessions (Mon-Wed) and meals (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet and Wednesday breakfast).
  • Full Registration includes all sessions (Mon-Wed) and meals (Tuesday breakfast, lunch, & banquet and Wednesday breakfast).
  • Includes Monday sessions. Tuesday and Wednesday are available as add-ons.
  • Includes Tuesday sessions and meals except for banquet. Monday and Wednesday sessions and the banquet are available as add-ons.
  • Includes Wednesday sessions and meals. Monday and Tuesday sessions and the banquet are available as add-ons.

Register

41st Annual SMA Conference

This year, our conference will address the theme "Make It Happen." Is there an exhibit, program, or fundraiser that you've been talking about doing for years? Do you feel stuck because of procrastination, lack of board support, or insufficient funds? It's time to take action!

At SMA 2025, small museum professionals will share their tips and tricks of how they made it happen!


Offsite Tours:

Registration for our off-site conference experiences - including several bus tours around historic Montgomery County, MD is now open! Find out more and sign up on the conference registration page!


Registering Multiple Attendees

To register multiple attendees under a single account / transaction, return to the event registration page and select the appropriate registration category. You will have the option for New Registration and may register additional people before paying.


Payment

You may pay online with a credit card or PayPal account. Online payments will be redirected to PayPal and returned to SMA following completion. 

If you prefer to pay offline, contact Robin MacDonald, SMA Treasurer, at treasurer@smallmuseum.org for the most up-to-date mailing address and send your check or money order payable to "Small Museum Association". Your registration is not complete until your payment is received.


COVID-19

SMA recommends that attendees follow current CDC guidelines with regard to COVID.


Photographs

By registering, you give the SMA Board and Conference Committee permission to take and use photographs of you at SMA Conference programming for publicity purposes.


Online Schedule

This year the SMA is using Sched, an online scheduling site for our event program and schedule!  You will be automatically opted into Sched unless you indicate otherwise while registering for the conference. The schedule is always being updated, so check back regularly for the most up to date information!

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