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Updated June 28 2009
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Comments about the last TAM Meeting. Rachel South enjoyed the TAM Meeting in Chattanooga. To see her note, click Rachel South. |
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| Meeting
Registration Early bird meeting registrations will be available in a few months. Please check back in September. This year we gave away two free registrations for the 2010 meeting. The winners were Amy Vickers with the Cookeville Museums and Roosevelt Whitfield with the Matt Gardner Historical House Museum. Congratulations! |
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Attendee List will be available
prior to the meeting. In order to save paper, we are offering this
electronically instead of having printed copies at the meeting. If you would like a copy of the 20009 Attendee List, click List. |
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Sessions Schedule |
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Education Programs
Marketplace of Ideas Education Programs Marketplace of Ideas is a new way to share your "recipes of success" in Education programming. To sign up and join this session go to Marketplace. |
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| Exhibitors Its not too early to be thinking about being an exhibitor at the TAM Meeting in 2010 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on West End Avenue in Nashville, TN. We have a great space for exhibitors for the meeting. If you are interested in being an exhibitor or if you have any questions you can call the TAM phone number 866-390-3638 or by emailing info@tnmuseums.org. Exhibitor Fee includes business luncheon and evening events for up to two exhibitors. To download the exhibitor information, just click on 2010 Exhibitor Form.
2009 TAM Exhibitors
Sponsorships 2009 TAM Sponsors & Hosts Advertisements |
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| Museum Match Museum Match is an informal mentoring program for museum professionals that will commence at the TAM annual conference held in Nashville March 30-April 1, 2010. The mission of Museum Match is to strengthen the museum community in Tennessee by pairing emerging professionals with experienced professionals. To serve as a mentor, we ask that you have at least 5 years experience in the museum industry. For more information, please contact Jessie Foster at 615.744.4902 or jfoster@fristcenter.org. We hope you will consider participating in the Museum Match program! Click on Museum Match Application to read and print application. |
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Humanities Tennessee
Scholarships Twenty individuals from eleven organizations were recipients of the 2009 Humanities Tennessee scholarship program. They were: Campbell Culture Coalition, LaFollette: Jo
Anne Myers, Gerry Myers Humanities Tennessee and the Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM)
are pleased to announce our joint scholarship program for the 2009 TAM
conference. This initiative stems from our organizations' commitment
to provide opportunities for professional and organizational
development of Tennessee's museums and humanities community. Past
conference sessions covered relevant topics such as collections care,
exhibit design, and fundraising. Each scholarship provides two nights
lodging at the Doubletree Hotel, all meals provided by the conference,
and conference registration fees. Scholarship recipients will be
responsible only for their mileage , and an institutional TAM
membership at a cost of $50.00. For questions about scholarships or to receive an application form, please contact Melissa Davis at Humanities Tennessee by phone, 615-770-0006 x16, or by email, melissa@humanitiestennessee.org. For questions about the conference, please contact John Lancaster of TAM by phone 1-866-390-3638, or email, info@tnmuseums.org. |
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2009 TAM Scholarships
NOTE: This is separate from the Humanities Tennessee Scholarships. The Tennessee Association of Museums awards three Scholarships to the annual meeting, usually one to a qualified recipient from each Grand division of the state. Each scholarship recipient receives full conference registration fee waivers, accommodations for two nights at the Conference hotel and a transportation allowance of up to $50. TAM established this scholarship program to encourage students to
enter the museum field, to promote museum studies in Tennessee’s
higher education institutions, and to encourage networking
opportunities among new museum professionals. APPLICATION GUIDELINES: The winners of the 2009 TAM Scholarships are: Mary Carter, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College Genevieve Joyner, Historical Interpreter& Museum Educator, Belle Made Plantation, Amy Rohmiller,
Graduate Research Assistant, Albert Gore Research Center, MTSU IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, PLEASE NOTIFY SOMEONE YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM ATTENDING THE TAM CONFERENCE! |
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Auctions This year we are going to have another great silent auction. One will be set up in the Exhibit Hall and the other will be of higher dollar amounts at the Thursday Evening Event. Be sure to bring your checkbook, because we don't take credit cards. |
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| TAM Awards
Nominations Its time to be thinking about who you will nominate as your special 2009 accomplishments for a TAM Award of Excellence at the 2009 meeting. The deadline for sending in nominations is yet to be announced. If you have questions about the nomination instructions, please contact John Lancaster, at 866-390-3638. For TAM Award Guidelines and Nomination Form click on Guidelines. The area representatives are as
follows: The 2008 TAM
Awards Dinner and Ceremony was held at The Chattanoogan Hotel. It was a wonderful evening to
recognize and honor Tennessee museums for their professionalism,
creativity, scholarship, and public service. 2008 TAM Award Recipients - Awards of Excellence, Medium Sized Museums: Napoleon in Egypt and Egyptomania in Tennessee, Frank H. McClung Museum, Temporary Exhibition Time Made Real: The Carvings of Tim Lewis, Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, Publication/Catalog Bicentennial Celebration of President Andrew Johnson’s Birth, The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Special Event Zoo Front Entrance Capital Campaign, Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park, Special Recognition Commendation, Medium Sized Museums:
2007-2008 Annual Report, Chattanooga Zoo, Publication Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Temporary Exhibition Space Chase and the New Sudekum Planetarium, Adventure Science Center, Permanent Exhibition Masterworks of Fabergé, The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, Publication Strokes of Genius-RENOIR-the Art of Pierre-Auguste & Alexandre Seed Packet, Tennessee State Museum, Novelty Scarecrows! (Advertising), Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, Publication/Flat Paper Space Chase and the new Sudekum Planetarium, Adventure Science Center, Press Kit Exploration Station: Artists Collect, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, Educational Programming The River Inside: John Guider’s Amazing Journey, Tennessee State Museum, Educational Programming Commendations, Large Museums: Bone Detectives Lab, Adventure Science Center, Educational Programming
Bagels and Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee; Tennessee
State Museum in Collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Nashville
and Middle Tennessee, Jewish Community Federation of Greater
Chattanooga, Knoxville Jewish Alliance and Memphis Jewish Federation;
Special Recognition At Home in Appalachia: A Day in the Life of Sarah and Jonah, Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, Permanent Exhibition Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee, East Tennessee Historical Society, Permanent Exhibition Faces of Power: Ancient Coins of the Biblical World, The Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum, Temporary Exhibition Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee, East Tennessee Historical Society, Publication - Audio-Visual / CD Voices of the Land: The people of East Tennessee, Grand Opening and History Fair, East Tennessee Historical Society, Special Event “Andrew Johnson: Heritage, Legacy and Our Constitution,”A Celebration of the Bicentennial Of Andrew Johnson and The 221st Anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, President Andrew Johnson Museum & Library, Special Event “Dan the Man,” Dan MacDonald; East Tennessee Historical Society; Volunteerism Barry VanWinkle, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Volunteerism Commendations, Small Museums: Ancient Worlds Uncovered: Windows into the World of the Bible, The Biblical Resource Center and Museum, Permanent Exhibition Sutton General Store, Granville Museum, Inc., Permanent Exhibition A T-Rex Named Sue, East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum, Blockbuster Exhibition Coordinating Brochure Set: Bringing History to Life, Making History Personal & A New Adventure Begins Here!, East Tennessee Historical Society, Publication/Flat Paper Button Whizzer, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage center, Novelty Concert Series Tabletop Tri-Fold, Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, Publication/Flat Paper Hands on History: Native Americans of East Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, Educational Programming History, Heritage and the Constitution, Doak House Museum, Educational Programming |
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