Workshops

The ALLIANCE hosts a spring conference and fall workshop/annual meeting. Each meeting is geared towards topics of need for small and medium-sized museums. Suggestions for workshop sessions are always welcome. If you have an idea, thought, or suggestion, contact one of the ALLIANCE board members.

Listed below are past workshop/conference topics–in chronological order–and where they were held:

  • October 1992: Inagural MAHLM Conference. Included sessions on copyright law, collections identification, and lighting conservation. Stearns County Museum, St. Cloud.
  • October 1993: Government Relations, Understanding Color In Exhibits, & Cataloguing Procedures. Goodhue County Historical Society, Red Wing.
  • May 1994: Museum Lighting & Exhibit Design. Runestone Museum, Alexandria.
  • November 1995: Working With Objects: Textile Care & Numbering. Stearns County Museum, St. Cloud.
  • October 1996: Searching For Funding. Stearns County Museum, St. Cloud.
  • October 1997: Building the A.R.K.: A Recovery Kit For When All Hell Breaks Loose. Kanabec County Heritage Center, Mora.
  • June 1998: Emergency Recovery Bootcamp. Yellow Medicine County Historical Society, Granite Falls.
  • October 1998: Integrating Arts & History: Gathering & Retelling Our Stories. Banfille-Locke Center For The Arts, Fridley.
  • June 1999: Everything You Wanted To Know About Exhibits But Were Afraid To Ask, Park I. Carver County Historical Society, Chaska.
  • Octotober 1999: Everything You Wanted To Know About Exhibits But Were Afraid To Ask, Part II. Crow Wing County Historical Society, Brainerd.
  • June 2000: Upstairs, Downstairs: Historic Structures, Part I. Morrison County Historical Society, Little Falls
  • October 2000: Upstairs, Downstairs: Historic Structures, Part II. Lyon County Historical Society, Marshall.
  • October 2001: Dealing With Donors: Developing Positive Relationships (part of the Collections Initiative), Murphy’s Landing, Shakopee.
  • September 2002: Managing Collections When Your Plate is Full (part of the Collections Initiative), Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls.
  • June 2003: Death & Taxes: How To Handle These Complex Issues. Anoka County Historical Society, Anoka.
  • September 2003:Photographs: Conservation, Handling, Reproductions, Etc. Clay County Historical Society, Moorhead.
  • June 2004: Youth Must Be Served: Playing With History. Blue Earth County Historical Society, Mankato.
  • October 2004: New Laws & New Books: Two Completely Unrelated Topics. Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.
  • October 2005: Don’t Let Your Mannequin Go Naked: Working With Clothing & Textiles. Goodhue County Historical Society, Red Wing.
  • October 2006: Writing and Updating Disaster Plans for Cultural Collections, Year I. Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud.
  • May 2007: Make Money, Keep Your Shirt & Your Sanity: How We Did It. Sherburne County Historical Society, Becker.
  • September 2007: Writing & Updating A Disaster Plan, Year II. Minnesota Lakes Maritime Museum, Alexandria.