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Schedule At A Glance
South Carolina State Museum (SCSM)
Columbia, South Carolina – March 11 – 13, 2020
Wednesday, March 11th
- 8:30 am – 4:00 pm: Registration, at the South Carolina State Museum
- 9:00 am – 4:00 pm: Workshops
- White Gloves Gang at the Cayce Historical Museum
- Education Tour
- 9:00 am – 12:30pm: Workshop
- Social Studies Standards with the SC Department of Education
- 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Welcome Reception at the McKissick Museum
- 9:00 pm: SCFM Meet Up
Thursday, March 12th
- 8:30 am – 4:00 pm: Registration, at the South Carolina State Museum (SCSM)
- 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Sessions
- Baby Boomers to Millennials, Opportunities for Museums
- SCSM: Gervais Street Room
- Innovative Tours
- SCSM: Huger Street Room
- Help us, Help you. SCFM and SCSM Partnership Announcement
- SCSM: Board Room
- Ensuring the Past’s Future Success at the Hampton-Preston Mansion and Gardens
- SCSM: Blue Room
- Aiding Teachers in the Successful Transition to the 2020 Social Studies Standards
- SCFM: Green Room
- Baby Boomers to Millennials, Opportunities for Museums
- 10:00 am – 10:30 am: Break
- 10:30 am – 11:30 am: Sessions
- The Best Working Board: Youth Volunteers
- SCSM: Blue Room
- Indigofera Suffruticosa: South Carolina History, Science and Art.
- SCSM: Green Room
- Knowing your tax
- SCSM: Gervais Street Room
- How Can We Help? Assessing the Current Needs of South Carolina Historical Repositories
- SCSM: Vista Room
- The Best Working Board: Youth Volunteers
- 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Keynote / Luncheon
- 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm: Sessions
- Interpreting the African-American Experience at Plantation Sites
- SCSM: Blue Room
- Education on a Dime
- SCSM: Green Room
- Tips for Project Funding Success
- SCSM: Gervais Street Room
- Remembering the Carolina Maneuvers
- SCSM: Huger Street Room
- Building your Audience through Free Public Programming
- SCSM: Vista Room
- Interpreting the African-American Experience at Plantation Sites
- 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Break
- 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm: Sessions
- Successfully Entering the Museum Field or Being a Successful (Early or Emerging) Museum Professional
- SCSM: Vista Room
- Demystifying Digitization
- SCFM: Room TBA
- Facilitating Successful Relationships with Teachers
- SCSM: Blue Room
- When Oil and Water Mix (working title)
- SCSM: Green Room
- Hands-On: Building Small Artifact Mounts
- SCSM: TBA
- Successfully Entering the Museum Field or Being a Successful (Early or Emerging) Museum Professional
- 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Dinner/Silent Auction, Historic Columbia
- Hampton-Preston Mansion (1615 Blanding St, Columbia, SC 29201)
- 9:00 pm: SCFM Member Meet Up
Friday, March 13th
- 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration, at the South Carolina State Museum
- 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Keynote Breakfast
- 10:15 am – 11:15 am: Sessions
- Discussing Difficult Subjects Successfully
- SCSM: Green Room
- Statewide Outreach and Distance Learning at the South Carolina State Museum
- SCSM: The SC State Museum’s Boeing Observatory
- Tracking “The Negro Motorist Green Book”: Methods and Strategies for Researching Local “Green Book” Sites
- SCSM: Gervais Street Room
- How to host (Or get the most from) a living history event at your site or museum
- SCSM: Blue Room
- Repatriation of Lost Wartime Art
- SCSM: Huger Street Room
- Discussing Difficult Subjects Successfully
- 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Business Meeting
- 1:00 pm: After Hours Tours
- Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on SC’s Racially-Divided Past
- 1705 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201
- Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on SC’s Racially-Divided Past
Conference Hotels
Springhill Suites
511 Lady St
Columbia, SC 29201
Rate: $132 per night
Reservation Cut Off Date: February 22, 2020
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Aloft
823 Lady St
Columbia, SC 29201
Rate: $159 per night
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