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Anyone interested in museums, particularly museums located in the MPMA region.

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Join us at the Mountain-Plains Museums Association Annual Conference , October 20-24, 2008, in beautiful Kansas City. The conference will include many fun and interesting sessions, workshops and discussions, including the MPMA Technology Committee session.

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Music:

Museum podcasts from all over the country can be found at MuseumPods .

And be sure to check out the Kansas State Historical Society's award-winning Museum Cool Things Podcast series.

Los Alamos Historical Society has many new podcasts on the history of the Manhattan Project , including Hans Bethe on neutrinos, and gatekeeper to Los Alamos, Dorothy McKibben on a not-too-bright spy.

Movies:

Naturally, our favorite movies come from museums!

We are hoping that the YouTube museum group will get up and running--perhaps you can help?

Artforum on YouTube also has some museum-oriented footage.

Television:

We're currently looking for more museum YouTube videos, such as the one featured below. If you work at a museum that is in the MPMA region and have video materials you'd like to share, please send us a message.

Be sure to see Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal | Spencer Museum of Art

We also like this ad for the Western Museum of Colorado .

...and this offering from the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

And from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center ,

Also see the large collection of videos from the BBHC's five museums at: BBHC Museums YouTube index

We're also fans of the PBS series Great Museums .

Books:

Too many for us to include a full list, but here are two examples:

Rethinking the Museum
Making Museums Matter

Heroes:

There are many ways that people can be heroes in the museum world.

Perhaps one of the greatest museum heroes of this generation was Stephen Weil, who passed away in 2005. He was a scholar, a museum educator, an art law specialist and an administrator at museums such as the Whitney in New York and the Hirshhorn in DC. He was also a prolific author (see Books above).

Another museum hero is Philippe de Montebello, longtime director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His thoughts on why museums matter can be read here .

Closer to home, MPMA Business Members also are heroes! We thank you for your valuable support.