Hi Everyone—I

I’m Linda Norris from Sites of Conscience…please introduce yourself—we’ll start in just two minutes!

Hello from Blowing Rock Art & History Museum in Blowing Rock, NC

Hi, I'm Teak Lynner, Production Manager from the National Museum of Asian Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonain, Washington, DC

Good morning, my name is Camila from Sites of Conscience.

Hi from US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC

Hi from the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, CA

Hi from the Minnesota Historical Society!

Hello from

Applewood Estate in Flint, MI!

Good morning. My name is Katherine Gottschalk and I work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Hello, I’m from Los Angeles. No museum affiliation. Just here out of interest for the topic!

- My work computer does not have a camera, sorry.

Hi, it's Francine from Eastern State and that's our BIG GRAPH on your slide!

Hello from the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Another issue with which we are dealing is a difference in perceived risk among our staff. Our front line staff (educators and gallery assistants, most of whom are BIPOC) feel a greater risk and are much more hesitant to reopen.

Educational impacts

Uncertainty in programming. My role is programming/outreach director, my job is really in limbo right now.

How to address the issues of access and the digital divide while doing work with our community?

I'm sorry, the device I am on does not have a microphone or camera.

Oh, Rebekah, no worries!

We spoke about the shared experience of "uncertainty." One thing we did here at our museum that was successful with our museum members was to reach out to everyone personally via the phone and ask them how they were doing. It was SO successful that we will be continuing that type of communication with our members going forward. We'll be relying largely on our board of directors for this.

Thank you so much. This was a wonderful webinar and great way to see and meet so many people :) Good luck everyone and stay strong :)

What have been some of your visitor experiences for those of you that are open?

Or--how is staff/volunteer training going?

Please take our evaluation survey: https://forms.gle/DjyrpoH869AN5bkz9

our staff are all over the map in terms of interest in returning: some people want to return NOW and others can’t imagine returning before everyone has been vaccinated.

I agree with Leslie! We are also having this issue.

For those of you at museums that use apps to minimize contact, how do you feel this has impacted the visitor/staff experience?

We use OnCell as and audio tour and that has come in very handy of late since visitors use their phones for this...

Thank you!

Thank you Linda!

Thank you!

Thank you all! and thank you linda!