Friday, November 2: Registration, Marketplace, and Reception
1:30pm - 3:30pm: Marketplace Vendor Set-up
3:30pm - 8:00pm: Attendee Check-in, Marketplace Open
5:30pm - 7:30pm: Reception and Opening Remarks
All events held at Westin La Paloma
Saturday, November 3: Program Sessions
7:00am - 8:30am: Breakfast (provided)
7:30am - 3:30pm: Marketplace open
8:30am - 10:15am: Plenary Session - Preserving Flak Bait, a True Survivor of World War II
10:15am - 10:30am: Break
10:30am - Noon: Concurrent Sessions
- Times of the Sign: Rethinking Basic Aircraft Signage in the Age of Social Media
- Conservation Treatment of Space Milestone Objects
Noon - 1:30pm: Lunch (provided) - Join us with your lunch for a conversation about the future of the Mutual Concerns conference.
1:30pm - 3:00pm: Concurrent Sessions
- The Power of Storytelling
- Game On: Lessons Learned on the Road to a Million Downloads
3:00pm - 3:15pm: Break
3:15pm - 4:45pm: Concurrent Sessions
- New Exhibit Trends: Do You Always Need an Aircraft?
- A Range of Difficult Collections Issues
All events held at Westin La Paloma
Sunday, November 4: Program Sessions
7:00am - 8:30am: Breakfast (provided)
7:30am - 1:30pm: Marketplace Open
8:30am - 10:00am: Plenary Session - American Sturmoviks
10:00am - 10:15am: Break
10:15am - 11:45am: Concurrent Sessions
- Creating "Immersive Environments" in Air and Space Museums
- Commemorating Apollo 11
11:45am - 1:15pm: Lunch (provided), organized lunch discussions
1:15pm - 2:45pm: Concurrrent Sessions
- Transformation: Destination Moon
- Revisiting Your Museum's Digital Strategy in Today's Climate
2:45pm - 3:00pm: Break
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Concurrent Sessions
- Creating Exhibits on a Moderate Budget
- Entering the Aerospace Museum World with Different Perspectives
All events held at Westin La Paloma
Monday, November 5: Trip to Pima Air & Space Museum
7:00am - 8:00am: Breakfast (Grab and go)
8:00am - 8:30am: Transportation to AMARG (Details on security procedures for this tour forthcoming)
8:30am - Noon: Guided tour of 309th AMARG
Noon - 12:15pm: Transportation to Pima Air & Space Museum
12:15pm - 1:00pm: Lunch (provided)
1:00pm - 2:45pm: Plenary Session - Life Cycles of Static Display Aerospace Vehicles
2:45pm - 3:00pm: Break
3:00pm - 4:45pm: Plenary Session - Oral Histories: Capturing and Utilizing Living History
4:45pm - 6:00pm: Tours of Pima Air & Space Museum
6:00pm - 8:30pm: Reception, Dinner, and Keynote Address
- Keynote Speaker: Melanie Astles, French air racing pilot
8:30pm - 9:00pm: Transportation to the Westin La Paloma
All events held at Pima Air and Space Museum
Tuesday, November 6: Program Sessions and Field Trips
7:00am - 8:30am: Breakfast (provided)
8:30am - 10:00am: Concurrent Sessions
- Making the Universe Accessible
- To Boldly Preserve: Collecting the Next Half-Century of Space Flight
10:00am - 10:15am: Break
10:15am - 11:45am: Concurrent Sessions
- Minimal Cost, Maximum Impact Education Programs
- Stewarding Our Own History: Why Understanding Your Museum's Past is Important
11:45am - 12:15pm: Closing Remarks
12:30pm - Optional Tours begin (transportation included and box lunch provided)
- Option #1: Tour of the Titan Missile Museum and dinner at El Charro Café
- Option #2: Kitt Peak
Morning events held at Westin La Paloma; off-site afternoon field trips
Wednesday, November 7: Full-day Field Trip
Please direct any questions or concerns to: nasmmutualconcerns@si.edu