All activities are included in registration.

The Creativity Room™
Keep Your Brain Engaged…PLAY

“You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

– PLATO

The Creativity Room™ is recreational open space designed to encourage personal and professional development and to have participants experience their boundless resourcefulness. The value of play is unlimited for those wanting time to think new thoughts and examine old ones; for those desiring to see things newly and think more imaginatively.

Convention Center — Room E256
Monday, May 14 from 8:00 A.M. -- 5:00 P.M.
Tuesday, May 15 from 8:00 A.M. -- 5:00 P.M.
Wednesday, May 16 from 8:00 A.M. -- 3:00 P.M.

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The Idea Lounge
“The Thought Never Entered My Mind”

Join colleagues in the Idea Lounge for informal discussion on field-wide big issues and hot topics that are shaping the future direction of the profession. Previous Idea Lounge topics have included:

• how museums become more relevant in their communities,
• skills and competencies for the next generation of leaders,
• and the promise and peril of mainstreaming.

Big idea sessions will be scheduled at one-hour intervals throughout the annual meeting.

Monday, May 14, 3:30 – 5:30 P.M.
MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS

An informal exchange of ideas on timely issues and information sharing about exemplary programs including the following:

• 19th Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition Marketplace

• AAM Committee for Diversity in Museums Marketplace: “Staff -led Diversity”

• AAM Committee on Education Marketplace:
   “Museum Education Matters – Current Trends in Museum Education”

• AAM Committee on Museum Professional Training Marketplace

• AAM Development and Membership Committee Marketplace

• AAM Media and Technology Committee Marketplace

• AAM Museum Association Security Committee Marketplace:
   “Protection Plans – When We are Closed and When We are Open”

• AAM Museum Management Committee Marketplace

• AAM Public Relations and Marketing Committee Marketplace

• AAM Registrars Committee Marketplace for Collections Professionals

• AAM Small Museum Administrators Committee Marketplace:
   “Small Museums Matter to Their Communities”

• CEO/Directors Roundtable

Entertainment

In conjunction with the Local Host Committee, AAM showcases Chicago performers at McCormick Place as you wait in line for shuttle bus service to the evening events.  The schedule of performances is: