2016 NYCMER Annual Conference: Intersections

Listen and share your stories about the struggle to survive in the museum field, and how this impacts our work, open mic style! How can museums diversify staff and volunteers while relying on free volunteer labor? How can we reflect our audiences when museum pay does not reflect the NYC cost of living? BBG staff will share their changing volunteer program model, and how it has expanded the diversity of volunteers beyond retirees and those who can afford not to work. As a group, we will brainstorm creative solutions to the challenges museum educators or volunteers may face at our home institutions.