Oklahoma Museums Association

The Oklahoma Museums Association (OMA), in partnership with the Mountain Plains Museums Association (MPMA), will support transformative professional development for newly emerging museum administrators in small and mid-sized museums across the ten-state region by creating and implementing an in-person institute and readily available openly accessible digital content modules. The in-person training will be provided to 30 applicants selected from across the ten-state region that includes Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana. This project will formally assess the need for new leader training in the region, provide insight for developing in-person leadership training, create reusable digital learning modules for on-demand access for both OMA and MPMA to distribute, and foster professional development training collaboration within the region.