Peninsula Museums Forum

What: June Peninsula Museums Forum Meeting

When: June 4th, 2008, 2:00 pm

Where: York Hall, Main and Ballard Streets, Historic Yorktown

(York County Historical Museum, 301 Main Street)

Why: Our Annual Meeting!

Jennifer Weiskotten from VAM will discuss MEST

Winnette will discuss the Poquoson Library admission pass program, Rebecca will discuss PMF/SHRMF Reciprocal cards

MESTs are organized by representatives of institutions within a given region of the state, and are assisted in this effort by the Virginia Association of Museums.  MESTs work together to help each other prepare for emergency situations, gain awareness of and support from local government and emergency officials, talk about possible scenarios and gather supplies as a group.  MESTs may also provide technical assistance to those institutions in their region which do not have a written disaster plan.  MESTs will be informed by VAM when an emergency situation occurs in their region, and individual members may step in to serve in the role of a response team member.

 Hampton History Museum will host the PMF August 6th Meeting   The speaker will be the representative from Richmond for VIRGINIA GREEN Campaign.  He can give presentation and share how a museum can go green. 

Oct. will be at the Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis.

Because of serious issues with our old hosting service for the PMF website (the most serious of which is that they stopped answering our requests for help and apparently fell off the face of the earth), we have moved to this new blog-style format. It is a work in progress - and suggestions are more than welcome! In the coming months, we will be able to keep you updated in a more timely fashion and will be able to allow member comments and postings. Stay tuned! This is exciting!

~webmistress and former President-for-life, Anna

A reminder that our April meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 2 at the Gloucester Museum of History at 2 p.m.  See you there!