In our season finale, we take a look at how others in the museum sector have used podcasts to stay connected with their communities. You’ll hear our roundtable conversation from earlier this year with the hosts of four museum podcasts about connecting virtually with audiences who could no longer visit in person, and what they have learned putting their podcasts together. In this episode, you’ll also hear even more stories from the volunteer crew of Parks Canada employees travelling around Alberta and BC to restore plaques and historic monuments.

Thank you for joining us this season! We hope you’ve enjoyed having a peek at what goes on behind the scenes at the AMA and how we’ve put together our 2021 Conference Series.

Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and review Museums at the Mic on iTunes, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can send us comments directly at [email protected] or get in touch with @AlbertaMuseums on social media.

The music heard in this episode is…

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Summer Ambient Piano by Raphael Krux

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5504-summer-ambient-piano-

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Our November Event in the 2021 Conference Series is focused on the guiding pillar of Community, and in this episode we’re taking a closer look at some of the ways museums and heritage organizations are building those community connections. 

First up, we have a conversation with Bob Weaver and Terry McGuire, two retired Parks Canada employees who now travel around Alberta and eastern BC to restore plaques and historic monuments. We connected with them over Zoom to talk about how this society came to be, and to hear some of their favourite stories about travelling to and maintaining these historical monuments.

In the second half of this episode, you’ll hear an excerpt from our keynote interview with Jess and Matt Turtle ahead of their presentation, “Trauma, Healing, and Justice: Museum Essentials for the 21st Century.”

Learn more about the AMA’s 50th Anniversary Conference Series on our website, museums.ab.ca. Register for the November event today!

Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and review Museums @ the Mic on iTunes, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can send us comments directly at [email protected] or get in touch with @AlbertaMuseums on social media.

The music heard in this episode is:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Summer Ambient Piano by Raphael Krux

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5504-summer-ambient-piano-

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In this special bonus episode of Museums @ the Mic, the podcast of the Alberta Museums Association (AMA), we have the full roundtable discussion with past AMA Executive Directors. In this episode, you will hear our current ED and CEO, Meaghan Patterson, talk with former EDs Adriana Davies, Gerry Osmond, and Alexandra Hatcher. This conversation was originally released as a tie-in content piece with our June Conference Event, part of the AMA’s 50th Anniversary Conference Series. If you’ve listened to past episodes of this podcast, you will have also heard a clip in our June episode. The four EDs talked about their experiences working with the Alberta museum community, the history of the AMA, and what they see as priorities and opportunities in our next 50 years.

Learn more about the AMA’s 50th Anniversary Conference Series, including our next call for session proposals deadline, on our website, museums.ab.ca. Register for the September event today!

Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and review Museums @ the Mic on iTunes, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can send us comments directly at [email protected] or get in touch with @AlbertaMuseums on social media.

The music heard in this episode is:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Summer Ambient Piano by Raphael Krux

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5504-summer-ambient-piano-

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In this special bonus episode of Museums @ the Mic, the podcast of the Alberta Museums Association (AMA), we have two extended conversations that couldn’t fit in our last episode. First, learn about “Cree: The People’s Language,” a travelling exhibit from the Canadian Language Museum, with founder Dr. Elaine Gold. Next, hear from Rachel Yates, Curator of Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa. Rachel takes the AMA through Project IKA, a co-collecting project to document the effects of climate change in Tokelau, a series of coral atolls in the South Pacific.

These two projects represent innovative approaches to community and reconciliation through modern museum practices. As the AMA’s 2021 Conference Series explores our four pillars of Community, Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Innovation, these conversations expand our exploration of the trends and priorities shaping the future of our sector.

Learn about the Canadian Language Museum’s travelling exhibit, “Cree: The People’s Language,” including reading the display boards and viewing the Cree language map, here: https://www.languagemuseum.ca/exhibit/cree-peoples-language

Read the Project IKA background blog by Rachel Yates before listening to her conversation. The blog defines some Maori and Tokelauan terminology as well as co-collecting concepts. Read the blog and view images of the atolls here: https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2021/05/03/co-collecting-climate-change-in-tokelau-project-ika/

You can contact Rachel to discuss co-collecting by emailing [email protected].

Learn more about the AMA’s 50th Anniversary Conference Series, including our next call for session proposals deadline, on our website, museums.ab.ca. Register for the September event today!

Don’t forget to subscribe, like, and review Museums @ the Mic on iTunes, Google, or wherever you get your podcasts. Our next bonus episode will be out later this summer. You can send us comments directly at [email protected] or get in touch with @AlbertaMuseums on social media.

The music heard in this episode is:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome 

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Summer Ambient Piano by Raphael Krux

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5504-summer-ambient-piano-

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to the second 2021 Conference Series episode of Museums @ the Mic!

In this episode, join the Alberta Museums Association (AMA) as we take a look at our June Conference Event, part of the 2021 Conference Series. We talk about proposing and reviewing sessions with Brittany Cherweniuk and Jill Horbay, members of the 2021 Program Committee, before learning about tie-in content with Nicole Balsdon from the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. There's also another Roundtable clip in this episode! This time, Meaghan Patterson, Executive Director / CEO of the AMA, talks with three former Executive Directors about the future of the organization (you'll hear the familiar voices of Adriana Davies, Gerry Osmond, and Alexandra Hatcher in that clip). The full conversation will be released as a bonus episode later this summer, and listen through the episode to learn of another special bonus episode coming soon! We receive a special anniversary message from a special keynote guest before hearing about how Nancy Nickolson's personal interest in old skills turned into a social media sensation for the Royal Alberta Museum during lockdown.

If you want to learn more about our Conference, including registering for our June, September, or November events and viewing our interactive June event program, visit the AMA’s website at museums.ab.ca! You can also find other ways to get involved with our 50th Anniversary Conference Series, including our ongoing Call for Proposals and information about our June keynote speaker, Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

From this Episode:

Visit the Beaty Biodiversity Museum's Researchers Revealed exhibit. Nicole can be reached at [email protected]. Nicole also mentioned the Beaty Biodiversity Museum working with the Musqueam people, on whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory the museum is located, and you can learn more about this project here.

View some of the videos Nancy Nickolson created for the Royal Alberta Museum's social media platforms. Watch "How to Fold a Fitted Sheet," "How to Sew a Button", and "How to Sew a Mask on an Antique Sewing Machine."

Music credits:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Funky Logo 05 by TaigaSoundProd

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6728-funky-logo-05

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Still You by Joel Loopez

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7410-still-you

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Welcome to the first episode of Museums @ the Mic Season 2!

In this episode, join the Alberta Museums Association (AMA) as we take a look at our March Conference Event, part of the 2021 Conference Series. We head behind the scenes with Stephanie Huolt and Michael Rikley-Lancaster, members of this year's Program Committee, before hearing clips from a special Podcast Roundtable discussion and an interview with Corey Timpson, our March keynote presenter. Corey talked with Meaghan Patterson, Executive Director / CEO of the AMA, about his inclusive design practice and how museums can work towards accessibility and inclusion as we move out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The full podcast roundtable and keynote interview are available to March Event attendees through our Conference Event Hub. 

If you want to learn more about our Conference, including registering for our Series Pass or March event and viewing our interactive March event program, visit the AMA’s website at museums.ab.ca! Registration prices for our March event go up on March 8th. You can also find other ways to get involved with our 50th Anniversary Conference Series, including our ongoing Call for Proposals and information about our June keynote speaker, Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Music credits:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Cheery Monday by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3495-cheery-monday

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Funky Logo 05 by TaigaSoundProd

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6728-funky-logo-05

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3976-life-of-riley

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Hello and welcome back to Museums @ the Mic, the podcast of the Alberta Museums Association (AMA)!

We are back with Season 2 of the podcast as part of our 2021 Conference Series. This year we are celebrating the AMA's 50th Anniversary with behind-the-scenes clips from our four virtual Conference events, special interviews with keynote speakers and presenters, and 50 years of memories from the Alberta museum community.

Join us for our first event in the Series on March 18 by registering today at museums.ab.ca. Your registration grants you access to our live program, session recordings, and special tie-in content available to attendees only.

Our first episode of Season 2 will be released early next month!

Music information:

Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesome

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In Disaster Lessons from New Zealand: Part Two, Sarah Murray, Curatorial Manager at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand discusses the reopening of the Canterbury Museum following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. The Canterbury Museum is working to help the Christchurch community heal by providing interpretation for the recent quakes through a permanent exhibit, Quake City, and a temporary exhibition Hearts for Christchurch.

This interview took place following Sarah’s presentation at the Yukon Heritage and Museums Association’s workshop, Cultural Organizations and Traumatic Events, in May 2016.

Acknowledgements

Museums @ the Mic is funded through the Museum Flood Funding Program. As a multi-year initiative supported by Alberta Culture and Tourism, the Program provides assistance to museums affected by the June 2013 floods, and ensures at-risk museums are able to mitigate potential damage in the event of future flooding emergencies. The AMA appreciates the Government of Alberta's commitment to assisting flood-affected cultural institutions.

Disaster Lessons from New Zealand: Part One features a conversation with Sarah Murray, Curatorial Manager at the Canterbury Museums in Christchurch, New Zealand. It focusses on the community responses in Christchurch following a series of deadly earthquakes and aftershocks that hit the region between September 2010 and February 2011.

This interview took place following Sarah’s presentation at the Yukon Heritage and Museums Association’s workshop, Cultural Organizations and Traumatic Events, in May 2016.

Acknowledgements

Museums @ the Mic is funded through the Museum Flood Funding Program. As a multi-year initiative supported by Alberta Culture and Tourism, the Program provides assistance to museums affected by the June 2013 floods, and ensures at-risk museums are able to mitigate potential damage in the event of future flooding emergencies. The AMA appreciates the Government of Alberta's commitment to assisting flood-affected cultural institutions.

This episode recounts the two disasters that affected the Museum of the Highwood. Irene Kerr, Director / Curator, takes us through the difficult process of responding to the massive flooding of June 2013 when the museum had not yet fully recovered from a fire that occurred in 2010.

Acknowledgements

Museums @ the Mic is funded through the Museum Flood Funding Program. As a multi-year initiative supported by Alberta Culture and Tourism, the Program provides assistance to museums affected by the June 2013 floods, and ensures at-risk museums are able to mitigate potential damage in the event of future flooding emergencies. The AMA appreciates the Government of Alberta's commitment to assisting flood-affected cultural institutions.