WEBINARS       

American Association for State and Local History Virtual Summit
Small Museums, Important Collections 
November 12-13, 2025
This virtual summit will focus on collections issues at small museums, which face a unique set of challenges, often related to limited resources, staff capacity, and infrastructure. This summit will provide information on caring for those collections and identify challenges and opportunities for small museum collections care in the future.

Museum Minds Webinar
Keeping Spirits Bright: Quick, Doable Tips for Cheerful Teams and Visitors 
November 12, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)  
Learn simple, actionable strategies to 1) boost team morale without adding to anyone's workload, 2) create small moments that make visitors feel welcome, and 3) protect your own energy so you don't burn out before the new year.

Museums and Change
From Outputs to Outcomes: The New Museum Professional 
November 13, 2025, 10:30 a.m. (AZ)
Museums often measure success through institutional outputs—exhibitions mounted, programs delivered, visitors counted. But an emerging professional archetype is shifting focus to community outcomes: the measurable progress people make toward goals that matter to them. This session explores what that shift means for strategy, stakeholder relationships, and resource allocation, featuring practitioners currently implementing this outcomes-focused approach. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82118182845 

Indiana Historical Society Local History Services Brown Bag Lunch
Intro to A.I. for Museums and History 
November 13, 2025, 9:30 a.m. (AZ)  
We’ll delve into the timely topic of Artificial Intelligence and the work of history and museums, including the basics of A.I., its potential and limitations for our work, and some of the ways it is being used in the history and museum fields.

Gaylord Archival Webinar
Neurodiversity in Museums & Cultural Spaces 
November 13, 2025,  12:00 p.m. (AZ)
This webinar will cover what neurodiversity means and how it affects participation; how institutions can remove barriers so all guests can thrive; and realistic, low-cost ideas to implement immediately.

Open Copyright Advisory Education Advisory Net (OCEAN) Webinar
Research, AI and Rights 
November 14, 2025, 10:00 a.m. (AZ)  
Join us for a discussion of the impacts of the ever-changing AI legal landscape on the work of researchers and the institutions that support them.

The Society for American Archaeology Webinar
Pictograph and Petroglyph Documentation and Data Collection Webinar 
November 18, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)

GrantStation Webinar ($69)
Grant Management: Essential to Grantwriting Success 
November 18, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)  
During this webinar, Amanda Day and Kimberly Hays de Muga will demonstrate why strong grant management is essential to your organization’s success, including how solid institutional grant management structures and processes ensure accountability, timely expenditures, and positive outcomes that build funder trust.

National Council on Public History Online Meet Up
Public History Educators: Educator “Therapy" 
November 19, 2025, 2:00 p.m. (AZ)
Join colleagues from around the country for a 45-minute conversation to share stories and build connections with fellow Public History professors. Feel free to come share your stories, struggles, and successes and maybe make some friends in the process. Disclaimer: No one involved is a licensed therapist. This is an opportunity to simply share, connect, and maybe commiserate with people who are in similar situations.

Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology FREE Webinar
Investigating Objects: From Inquiry to Action
November 19, 2025, 2:00 p.m. (AZ)  
Smithsonian educators will share teaching techniques and resources that help tell the story of America's 250th.  

American Alliance of Museums FREE Webinar 
Demystifying Accreditation 
November 20, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)
Martha Sharma and Danyelle Rickard, Assistant Directors of Accreditation at AAM, and Zach Garhart, Executive Director of the recently accredited Yellowstone County Museum, will review the ins and outs of the program and share common issues and misconceptions. Learn how to successfully unlock benefits like national credibility, enhanced relationships with peers and supporters, and institutional sustainability.

Open Copyright Advisory Education Advisory Net (OCEAN) Webinar
Creating with AI: Copyright Issues Related to Authorship, Authenticity, and Preservation for AI-assisted Works
November 21, 2025, 10:00 a.m. (AZ)  
This session will explore copyrightability and authorship of AI-assisted creative works that are increasingly used in writing as well as film, video, images and other formats.

Backlog Archivists FREE Webinar
Archives Basics 
November 24, 2025, 4:00 p.m. (AZ)  
This webinar will cover basic actions an archivist can take in building a strong foundation for a new (or new to them) archival collection.

Productive Fundraising FREE Webinar
Simplified Fundraising Planning for Small Nonprofits 
November 25, 2025, 11:00 a.m. (AZ)
Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, ACFREfor a workshop covering fundraising planning, including some of the biggest mistakes that nonprofit organizations make when putting together their annual fundraising plan and how to avoid them.  

American Association for State and Local History Virtual History Hour 
Internships 
November 25, 2025, 1:00 p.m. (AZ)
We will begin with a brief overview of best practices, address challenges current students face, and highlight tips on managing effective internship programs that help set emerging professionals up for success. Following the brief presentation, we will discuss questions you have about internship management, reaching the next generation, and crowdsource solutions for your challenges.

National Informal STEM Education Network Webinar 
Climate Action Playbook Online Workshop 
December 2, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)
The webinar will be an introduction to The Climate Action Playbook, a new developmental framework created to help informal education organizations approach this topic in developmentally appropriate ways. This resource offers practical guidance for caregivers and education professionals, blending expertise from climate psychology, neuroscience, equity, early childhood, nature education, and climate science.

American Association for State and Local History Virtual Workshop 
Deaccessioning Deep Dive 
December 2, 2025, 11:00 a.m. (AZ)
This workshop will provide an in-depth review of the deaccessioning process from start to finish: inventorying, deaccessioning, documenting, processing, and final object transfers. The workshop will offer guidance and troubleshooting for organizations of all sizes and budgets, and deaccessioning projects on a variety of timelines.

The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum Webinar
Understanding exposure risks originating from collection at the CollectieCentrum Nederland 
December 3, 2025, 9:00 a.m (AZ)  

The Collections Care & Conservation Alliance Webinar 
Introduction to Active Collections  
December 3, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)  
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the Active Collections approach that looks at societal trends are affecting what museum audiences need from collections and explores new approaches to collections acquisition, deaccessioning, cataloging, and oversight, with a focus on strategies for small organizations.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts FREE Webinar
How a Conservator Looks at Works on Paper 
December 4, 2025, 10:00 a.m. (AZ)  
Join Nancy Ash, former Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, for a presentation on close looking skills for appreciating works on paper. In this talk, she will provide you with new ways to look at art, how to describe what you’re seeing, and how to consider the context for the artist’s choice of materials and techniques.  

Open Copyright Advisory Education Advisory Net (OCEAN) Webinar
AI Litigation Update 
December 5, 2025, 10:00 a.m. (AZ)  
In keeping with the AI focus of our fall programming, we’ll be exploring the latest and most impactful AI litigation that affects authors, libraries, archives, and museums.

Natural Science Collections Alliance, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and American Institute of Biological Sciences Webinar
Natural History Collections and Repatriation: Beyond NAGPRA 
December 8, 2025, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)
Please join us for an information session about repatriation and how it relates to natural history collections held at museums, herbaria, and other institutions. We will be joined by a wide array of speakers who will share their perspectives on and experiences with repatriation, including cases for voluntary return. The program will delve into a zoological and a botanical case study of ethical return.  zoology, botany, geology, paleontology).

Oregon Museum Association Webinar
Collections Policy 101 
December 9, 2025, 11:00 a.m. (AZ)
Melanie Deer, Collections Manager and Assistant NAGPRA Coordinator at the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository at Arizona State University, will break down aspects of a collections policy based on John Simmon’s “Things Great and Small.” By the end of the presentation you will be able to identify what sections you need to include and have confidence in starting.

American Association for State and Local History Virtual Workshop
Strengthening History Communication: Reframing the Value of Your Institution 
December 11, 2025, 11:00 a.m. (AZ)
Drawing on research from AASLH’s Reframing History project, this workshop will help you communicate with public audiences more effectively and build a wider understanding of the value of history and history organizations. This workshop will include an overview of research findings, discussions about major challenges in communicating history with colleagues from around the country, and an opportunity to begin crafting your own communications materials.

Open Copyright Advisory Education Advisory Net (OCEAN) Webinar
Providing AI Guidance, Education and Information to Your Organization 
December 12, 2025, 10:00 a.m. (AZ)  
The final session of the series ties together everything that we’ve discussed so far and offers practical guidance on how to communicate the key concepts and best practices, and how they might apply to your particular type of organization, to your colleagues and patrons.

American Association for State and Local History Webinar
Outdoor History Walking Tours 101 
April 2, 2026, 12:00 p.m. (AZ)
Aja Bain, AASLH’s Director of Professional Development and Publications and a Nashville walking tour guide for ten years, for a nuts and bolts look into what makes a great historic walking tour, and how your site can develop memorable and immersive experiences for visitors no matter your location or budget.

MEETINGS, CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS   

American Association for State and Local History Virtual Summit
Small Museums, Important Collections 
November 12-13, 2025
This virtual summit will focus on collections issues at small museums, which face a unique set of challenges, often related to limited resources, staff capacity, and infrastructure. This summit will provide information on caring for those collections and identify challenges and opportunities for small museum collections care in the future.

National Humanities Conference 
November 12-16, 2025
Detroit MI

American Association for State and Local History Workshop
Reimagining the History House Museum 
November 14, 2025
Charleston, South Carolina
This one-day workshop includes an analysis of the most important opportunities and threats facing historic sites in America based on the latest social and economic research, with a discussion on how they may relate to the participants’ house museum.

Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 
November 16-19,2025
Denver CO

Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists 2025 Conference  
November 18-21, 2025  
St. Louis MO

MuseumNext
Museums & Social Media Summit 
November 20-21, 2025

National Coalition Against Censorship
7th Annual Curatorial Workshop: Curating in Challenging Times 
December 4, 2025
New York NY
Through speaker presentations and group discussions led by Claudia Zapata (Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin), Noam Segal (Guggenheim Museum), and Denise Ryner (ICA Philadelphia) and others, participants will examine case-studies in which curators have had to navigate targeted pressures.   Apply by November 2, 2025.

MuseumNext
MuseumNext Forecast 
December 17-28, 2025

Small Museum Association
42nd Annual Conference: Climate Change 
February 16 to 18, 2026
The Yorktowne Hotel, York, Pennsylvania

American Association for State and Local History Workshop
Reimagining the History House Museum 
March 9, 2026
Nashville TN
This one-day workshop includes an analysis of the most important opportunities and threats facing historic sites in America based on the latest social and economic research, with a discussion on how they may relate to the participants’ house museum.

Tri-National Sonoran Symposium
March 9-12, 2026
Ajo AZ

2026 Ecsite Conference
June 2 to 4, 2026
Gothenburg, Sweden

Association of African American Museums Annual Conference 
August 19 – 21, 2026
Philadelphia, PA

 

COURSES    

American Association for State and Local History Online Courses  
January 12 – February 8, 2026: Introduction to Financial Management 
January 12 – February 8, 2026: Project Management for History Professionals 
January 12 – March 8, 2026: Basics of Archives 
January 12 – March 8, 2026: Collections Management 100: Collection Development 
January 12 – March 8, 2026: Developing Exhibitions: Planning and Design 
January 12 – March 8, 2026: Museum Education and Outreach

Gawain Weaver Online Course
Care and Identification of Photographs  October 6 - November 23, 2025
This 7-week online workshop is an introduction to the history, identification, and preservation of photographic materials. Participants will acquire hands-on identification skills and learn practical photograph preservation techniques. Using handheld 60x microscopes and the Basic Photographic Sample Set of photographic and photomechanical samples, they will learn how a variety of processes were created, why they look the way they do, and how they deteriorate. Knowledge about photographic processes is essential to their preservation and leads to a greater appreciation of the aesthetics and history of photographic prints.

American Association for State and Local HistoryArcus Leadership Program Courses
Specifically designed for emerging and mid-level professionals and volunteers, these self-paced courses help participants understand the most critical topics in the history field and incorporate that understanding into their work. Start these courses any time.
Accessibility for Historical Organizations 
Creating Engaging Social Media Content for History Organizations 
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for History Organizations 
Foundational Principles of LGBTQ+ Inclusion 
Introduction to Fundraising 
Introduction to Indigenous History 
Program Planning for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot Online Course
Marketing Your Nonprofit 
Six-week eCourse to help  nonprofits improve their marketing capabilities and learn to build a comprehensive strategy.   Course includes 6 emails, one focused lesson per email with tools, templates and worksheets for hands-on learning.

GrantStation 
Turbocharge Your Grantwriting Skills ($399)
7 units guide you through the entire grant proposal process step-by-step. You’ll learn how to craft an organizational background, compelling statement of need, process and outcome evaluation, approach, and budget with detailed videos, downloads, examples, and other resources. 

Finding New Sources of Funding in Challenging Times
Think beyond traditional sources of financial support to fund cultural resource projects. Learn how to evaluate a cultural resource project for its value in serving broader community needs. Review traditional funding types versus alternative sources that can be redirected to meet project goals. 
(On demand)

Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Online Course
Museum Collections Documentation and Data Cleaning
Provides essential museum documentation information for museum staff with all levels of knowledge. It begins with an introductory overview and ends with specific documentation issues. Learners can take the modules in order or choose a module or two that fits their needs.
(On demand)

Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Online Course
Preservation Housekeeping for Heritage Sites and Small Museums
Covers guidelines, best practices and resources for the regular upkeep of historic interiors and exteriors as well as the contents of historic buildings. This one- to two-hour self-paced course has been designed for those who work or volunteer in small museums or heritage sites and who have little to no training in conservation.
(On demand)