MAS Reading Group - Session 7: Governance
2024-09-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Online (Zoom)
Tuesday September 3, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Online via Zoom
Moved to Action Reading Group, Session 7 (pg. 76-85)
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MAS Reading Group - Session 8: Operations
2024-09-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Online (Zoom)
Tuesday September 17, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Online via Zoom
Moved to Action Reading Group, Session 8 (pg. 86-99)
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MAS Course: Exhibit Design and Planning
2024-10-05 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Regina) | Biggar Museum and Gallery, 105 3rd Avenue West, Biggar, SK, Canada
October 5-6, 2023
Location: In person at the Biggar Museum and Gallery, 105 3rd Avenue West, Biggar
9:00am – 5:00pm CST

Instructor: John Snell, Manager, Programming and Exhibits, Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Registration deadline: September 27, 2024
$175(Members), $225 (Non-Members), $125 (Students)
This course guides you through the exhibit design process. Through lectures, group work, and group discussions, you will share your experiences and develop the skills to offer exhibits that engage your community, tell your stories, and appeal to all ages. This course will also require students complete a take-home assignment to receive course credit. After completion, students will be able to conceptualize, design, plan, and construct interpretive exhibits, panels and texts within a museum or gallery environment. This course is one of the ten required classes needed for the completion of the Museums Association of Saskatchewan Certificate in Museum Studies Program.
Lunch is available on both days, courtesy of the Biggar Museum and Gallery. Cost is by cash donation.

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Info Session: MAS Stickers of Excellence
2024-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
MAS wants to celebrate the excellent work within our membership and to help encourage tourism and community pride! MAS member museums are invited to submit applications for recognition, with accompanying evidence for evaluation.
Want to learn more?
Join us Tuesday, October 22 at 12pm CST via Zoom to go over the guidelines, examples of evidence of evaluation, and to answer any questions you may have.
Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89869902793?pwd=[REDACTED]

Coffee Chat with MAS Repatriation Liaison
2025-01-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Online (Zoom)
Join Gabriel Essaunce Lamarche, MAS Repatriation and Community Liaison, for an informal chat as an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about repatriation and your collections.
Tuesday January 14th, 11:00am-12:00pm CST
Online via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82078058648?pwd=[REDACTED]
For anyone who is interested in participating, but can’t join at this scheduled time, please feel free to email repatriation@saskmuseums.org with any questions or comments you may have. Gabriel would be happy to discuss this topic with you.

Coffee Chat with MAS Repatriation Liaison
2025-01-28 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Online (Zoom)
Join Gabriel Essaunce Lamarche, MAS Repatriation and Community Liaison, for an informal chat as an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about repatriation and your collections.
Tuesday January 28th, 11:00am-12:00pm CST
Online via Zoom
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For anyone who is interested in participating, but can’t join at this scheduled time, please feel free to email repatriation@saskmuseums.org with any questions or comments you may have. Gabriel would be happy to discuss this topic with you.

Organization and Management (2 days) - Certificate Program in Community Museum Studies
2025-02-08 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | SK
Organization and Management (2 days)
Saturday, February 8 – Sunday, February 9
9:00am – 4:00pm
Gabriel Dumont Institute, 917 22 St W. Saskatoon, SK
Instructor: Joan Kanigan, CEO, Western Development Museum
In this course, you will learn about the roles and responsibilities of a non-profit board, public trust, board decision-making, policy development, financial and human resource management, and community relations. After completion, students will have a knowledge of the operational and management aspects of a museum/gallery environment, and will be able to effectively operate and contribute to the administration of a cultural organization. This course is one of the ten required classes needed for the completion of the Museums Association of Saskatchewan Certificate in Museum Studies Program.
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Coffee Chat with MAS Repatriation Liaison
2025-02-11 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Silly Goose or Real Eagle: how to identify species of the feathers within your collections
Tuesday January 28th 2025
11:00am-12:00pm CST
Online via Zoom (no registration required)
Join Zoom Meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88968099828?pwd=[REDACTED]
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MAS Community Chat: JW Digital Archiving
2025-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Community Chat: JW Digital Archiving
Thursday February 13, 2025
12:00pm CST, Zoom
Justin Waloshin, JW Digital Archiving
Located in Regina, SK, JW Digital Archiving has been providing services to museums, art galleries, and the public for the last 10 years. Their services include digitizing VHS, film transfer, photo and slide scanning, and digitizing sound from cassettes, vinyl LP, and more.
Digitization is very useful in the cataloguing and conservation of your collections, and also importantly for research, education, and community engagement.
Join us and Justin Waloshin, owner of JW Digital Archiving, to discuss their technical skills, what services they provide right here in Saskatchewan, and the importance of digitizing materials in collections.
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83485024062?pwd=[REDACTED]

Coffee Chat with MAS Repatriation Liaison: Traditional vs Contemporary Materials
2025-03-25 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Traditional vs Contemporary Materials: Leather and Thread
Tuesday March 25th 2025
11:00am-12:00pm CST
Online via Zoom (no registration required)
Join Zoom Meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88968099828?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Coffee Chat with MAS Repatriation Liaison
2025-04-08 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Tuesday April 8 2025
11:00am-12:00pm CST
Online via Zoom (no registration required)
Join Zoom Meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88968099828?pwd=[REDACTED]
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MAS Course: Museums 101 (1 day)
2025-05-10 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Certificate Program in Community Museum Studies
Museums 101 (1 day)
Saturday, May 10 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm CST
Online (Zoom)
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MAS Course: Museums and Community (2 days)
2025-05-24 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Certificate Program in Community Museum Studies
Museums and Community (2 days)
Saturday, May 24, Saturday May 31 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm CST
Online (Zoom)
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MAS Course: Care of Collections (2 days)
2025-06-07 09:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Certificate Program in Community Museum Studies
Care of Collections (2 days)
Saturday June 7 – Sunday June 8 2025
9:00am – 4:00pm CST
Online (Zoom)
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Q&A: Key to Cultural Heritage
2025-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Tuesday July 22
12:00pm – 1:00pm CST
Online, via Zoom
Join Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82424597011?pwd=[REDACTED]

MAS Course: Exhibit Design and Planning (2 days)
2025-09-26 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
This course guides you through the exhibit design process. Through lectures, group work, and group discussions, you will share your experiences and develop the skills to offer exhibits that engage and reflect your community, tell captivating stories, and appeal to visitors of all ages.
Instructor: Dana Savage
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MAS Fall Gathering
2025-10-11 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | Thorne Hall, Luther College at the University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Pkwy, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
Time: 1:00-4:00pm
Location: Thorne Hall (LC 100), Luther College at the University of Regina
Join us at Thorne Hall in Regina on Saturday, October 11th, 2025, for MAS’s Fall Gathering. An opportunity to listen, learn, and network with fellow MAS Museum members.
$15 Member, $25 Non-Member, Student’s Free
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Can’t join us in person for our upcoming MAS Fall Gathering? Join us online via Zoom on Saturday October 11th. We will be live streaming! Register to attend online via Zoom ($15)
Keynote Speaker: Frank Finley

MAS Community Chat: SaskCulture Museum Grant Program
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
Thursday October 16, 2025
12:00pm CST
Online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86760471705?pwd=[REDACTED]

No registration required.
The Museum Grant Program (MGP) provides operational funding to help foster strong, vibrant, community-based Saskatchewan museums that are valued and supported by society. This funding enables museums to focus on excellence in their programs and operations and to contribute to the understanding of the world and our place in it – our past, our present, and our future.
Whether you have applied for the museum grant program in the past or applying for the first time this workshop will give you some helpful tips and tricks to put your best foot forward.
This workshop will focus on the following.

Eligibility criteria
Using the online grant platform
Grant application overview
Grant application assessment consideration
Budget tips
Q & A

This is also an opportunity to meet the SaskCulture MGP team, Tomasin Playford, Outreach Consultant (she/her), Leo Keiser, Grants Administrator (they/them) and Abiodun Oyelami, Grants Administrator (he/him).

MAS Course: Research (1 day)
2025-10-18 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Online (Zoom)
In this course, you’ll learn to develop a research policy, and develop and implement a research plan. You’ll strengthen your research skills, learn to integrate them into your museum’s practices, and learn ways to use research and resources to build community relationships. (1 day)
Instructor: Ally Forand
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