Reflection/Reinvention: The 50th CWAM Annual Meeting

7290 Commerce Center Dr,Colorado Springs CO 80919

27 April, 2022

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At this Annual Meeting, we want to encourage everyone to pause, take a breath, and reflect as CWAM enters its 50th year. As CWAM enters its 50th year of bringing together museum professionals from Wyoming and Colorado, it’s easy to continue charging forward, especially after the challenges of 2020-2021. At this Annual Meeting, we want to encourage everyone to pause, take a breath, and reflect. Many of us were not in our current positions, our current museums, or even born 50 years ago, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from what our museums have done over the past half-century. Museums 50 years ago were inspiring, exciting, and, in some cases, infuriating. Our predecessors have provided us with building blocks, but also cause for reinvention. At this conference, we invite you to share with your colleagues the many ways your museum has continued to do what works, or how it is unrecognizable from how it was was decades ago. We look forward to paying homage to our museum ancestors while, at the same time, celebrating museum revolutionaries! Visit our website for more detailed information. “The Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums is a service organization which educates and unites its membership and the larger museum community. CWAM advocates and promotes museum interests in Colorado and Wyoming and encourages excellence and professionalism in the museum field.” (CWAM Mission, adopted May 13, 1994) THE PURPOSE of the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums is to “unify for mutual benefit those individuals, institutions, and organizations in Colorado and Wyoming who are engaged in the collection, preservation, and/or interpretation of artistic, natural, pre-historical, or historical heritage and who are dedicated to the continued improvement in quality of programming and service.” (Articles of Incorporation, Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums, March, 1972.)