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Thursday, September 18 Long-Distance Relationships: Maintaining Organizational Identity and Seamless Operations Over �t Long Distances and Multiple Sites Organizations with facilities and staff that are dispersed over i6r1 ^ large distances face special challenges.Two historical organiza tions will open this roundtable by explaining how they have led Nil their distant historic sites.All participants will then discuss those t , methods while contrasting their advantages and challenges of maintaining a unified organizational identity across sites. Chair: Mark Sundlov, Local History Office Manager,Ohio Historical Jean Baptiste Faribault House Society,Columbus,OH Many Small Surveys, One Big Impact Your Most Valuable Partnership: Engaging Your Board to Systematic evaluation of teacher and student experiences Ensure Success and Sustainability across multiple programs, including field trips,can reveal Your relationship with your board matters—are you setting them powerful stories of institutional impact while exposing vast areas up for success?Join colleagues from around the country to for improvement. Using examples from collaboration among identify strategies you can use right away to ensure your board fifteen Minnesota Historical Society sites, panelists explore is engaged and effective. evaluation challenges, provide do-it-yourself tools,and discuss Chair:Chad Roberts,President, Ramsey County Historical Society, St. how to use results effectively. Paul, MN Chair: Wendy Jones, Director, Museum Education and Lifelong Learning, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN 5:45-6:45 pm Shall We Get Together: How to Make Partnerships Work Learn how partnerships between public and private groups saved Developing Leaders @SHA Reception a historic federal building to turn it into a hub for vibrant historical COST:FREE,PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED exhibits and have created engaging resources for public educa- tion in a state supreme court. Learn about how to draw on their experiences to develop your own successful collaborations. History Happy Hour Chair: Daniel S. Holt,Assistant Historian, Federal Judicial Center, Take a few moments for some informal networking with Washington, DC colleagues. Many of our affinity groups will be hosting informal meet-ups in the hotel or at local watering holes where you can Telling a Whole History: Methods of Interpreting come together and meet people with similar professional inter- Domestic Servants ests.A full schedule will be distributed onsite in St. Paul. PBS'popular television show Downton Abbey has led to an increase in visitors'interest in domestic service. Is your museum current with scholarship and new trends in interpretation of this 6:45-9:30 pm phenomenon?Discuss methods and strategies for revitalizing interpretation in historic house museums to include the voices Evening Event: Playing with the Past of domestic servants. COST:$50 Chair:Ashley Rogers,Assistant Director, Denver Regional Museums, History Colorado, Denver,CO Welcoming All Visitors: Accessible Programs at History Museums and Sites ' This interactive panel for historic houses and historic sites offers attendees the opportunity to learn how to create a truly inclu- sive environment for all visitors, including those with a range of 01' disabilities.The panel is made up of four museum professionals - who are actively promoting accessibility at historic sites and z �►1) structures through programs,exhibits,and their communities. . This highly engaging panel will end with a directed Q&A to " ., uth,t ensure that your ideas and questions are heard. ,. Chair: Katie Stringer, Ph.D., Executive Director. Blount Mansion, + a K` xville,TN �° Minnesota History Museum