Funded in part by TCA

The Texas Association of Museums is dedicated to fostering educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities for all Texans. It accomplishes this, through service to its members, by providing a communications network, sponsoring educational programs, and encouraging adherence to professional standards and practices.

EXHIBIT WITH TAM IN BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION

Showcase your products/services by exhibiting with us at our TAM Annual Meeting in Bryan/College station March 16-19, 2010.  We want our Exhibit Hall to showcase the best in the business.    By exhibiting, you will help TAM inform our members of the resources available to them.  

The 2010 TAM Annual Meeting Exhibit Hall Prospectus outlines advantages of the Exhibit Hall and its operational aspects.   An Exhibit Hall application https://www.io.com/tam/exhibit_app.html and floor plan is available at http://www.io.com/~tam/ContEd/exhibithall.html.

There are four ways to support the Texas Association of Museums.

1. Become a member
   
2. Make a tax-deductible, year-end contribution
   
3. Give to the TAM endowment
   
4. Give a gift membership

As stated above in the mission statement, TAM’s mission is simple—create an environment where professionals can make a difference in their museums, historic sites, arts and cultural centers, and their surrounding communities.  Become a part of that mission statement and support TAM. 

TAM's monthly Online Newletter is a benefit of membership. The newsletter includes the latest museum news from around the state, association news, personal notes and updates on Annual Meeting events and activities.

For those of you who are not members of TAM and have been receiving the Online Newsletter for the past few months, we hope you will consider joining TAM .

TAM offers Professional Development Certificate Program

The Museum Forms Book

From loan forms to copyright agreement, this compilation of over 400 forms is an important reference book for museum professionals wanting to evaluate and redesign their own record-keeping procedures.

Order your copy today.

FREE JOB POSTINGS FOR TAM INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS -- Institutional members of TAM receive free job postings as benefit of membership. Post your vacant position on the TAM Job Bank

DISASTER RECOVERY RESOURCES AVAILABLE

Help is available to museums, historic sites, and other cultural organizations that suffered damage in Hurricane Ike. DISASTER RECOVERY RESOURCES

Hurricane Ike: TAM staff has updated status reports on individual institutions, listed by city--posted 10/07/2008

Most recent updates --posted 1/28/2009

Are Your Collections at Risk? TAM Environmental Monitoring Kits are available.

TAM Succession Plan -- template for creating a succession plan

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