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America's Packard Museum

Dayton, Ohio

Specialized

Arcade Museum Center Foundation

Dayton, Ohio

Specialized

Boonshoft Museum of Discovery

Dayton, Ohio

Anthropology, Archaeology, Children's, Culture, Natural History, Planetarium, Science, Zoo

As you will see from the brief descriptions below, the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is a vibrant, interactive science center, children's museum, accredited zoo and Planetarium. Kids, teens, adults and scholars use our resources to further their understanding of science and technology.

Cox Arboretum & Gardens

Dayton, Ohio

Arboretum

Dayton International Peace Museum

Dayton, Ohio

Specialized

To choose violence and conflict is easy. Pick up a gun. Drop a bomb. Ignore the rights of others. To choose peace is more difficult. The arsenal of peace has no weapons but nonviolence, compassion, faith, and reason.

If peace is to be a viable alternative in a world inundated with violence, the message of peace must have constant presence. It needs to be available to those who would choose and work for peace, but who often feel alone or defeated. It needs to be a message heard over and over by children. It needs to be incorporated into everyday activities. Its promise needs to resonate in the streets.

To achieve its lofty goals, peace needs to be grounded.

Dayton Visual Arts Center

Dayton, Ohio

Art

Five Rivers Metroparks

Dayton, Ohio

Park

Kettering-Moraine Museum & Historical Society

Kettering, Ohio

General, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Specialized

Founded in 1962, the Kettering Moraine Museum and Historical Society was dedicated to the organization, collection and preservation of historical artifacts and memorabilia from the Kettering and Moraine areas. In addition to the artifacts, historic buildings have been donated and moved to the Museum site over the years. Originally the museum was managed by a dedicated director and an active group of volunteers and was open to the public on a regular schedule. Due to health issues of the director and declining Society membership, the Museum Society was disbanded in 2008.

National Aviation Hall of Fame

Dayton, Ohio

Culture, General, History, Library, Military, Specialized

The National Aviation Hall of Fame opened the doors to its permanent home to the public January 8, 2003. Founded in 1962 and chartered by congress in 1964 the Hall of Fame honors America's air and space pioneers. A cast of dignitaries and Hall of Fame enshrinees turned out, including Astronaut Joe Engle, 2001 enshrinee, test pilot Joe Kittinger, 1997 hall of famer, and test pilot Scott Crossfield, a 1983 honoree. Zoe Dell Nutter, co-chair of the NAHF Board of Nomations, who with her late husband, Ervin, founded the hall's endowment, gave a brief speech and helped snip the ribbon. The NAHF is adjacent to the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial - Ohio HistoricaL Society

Dayton, Ohio

Historical Society

Carillon Historical Park

Dayton, Ohio

Park

Dayton Art Institute

Dayton, Ohio

Art

Dayton Power & Light County Museum

Dayton, Ohio

Dunbar House State Memorial

Dayton, Ohio

History, Historic House

This Italianate turn-of-the-century structure was the final home of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It exhibits his literary treasures, many of his personal items and his family's furnishings. During his short lifetime Dunbar became known as the poet laureate of African Americans. Drawing on his observations of society and the experience of his parents--both former slaves--he gave voice to the social dilemma of disenfranchised people of his day and became a proclaimer of black dignity.

Fraze Pavilion for the Performing Arts

Kettering, Ohio

Art

Montgomery County Historical Society

Dayton, Ohio

Historical Society

In 2005, Carillon Historical Park merged with the Montgomery County Historical Society to create a new umbrella organization known as Dayton History. The private non-profit (501c3) organization was established to preserve, share, and celebrate our region’s history. Carillon Historical Park is home to over 30 historic structures and cares for over three million artifacts.

Patterson Homestead

Dayton, Ohio

History

SunWatch Indian Village

Dayton, Ohio

History

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October 13 - October 14, 2025

2025 Annual Florida Association of Museums Conference & Expo titled: Preserving Paradise

Florida Association of Museums

Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort

Daytona Beach, Florida

We are excited to INVITE you to join us for the FAM Expo, October 13-14, in Daytona Beach. Join your colleagues and welcome the FAM attendees as we all talk about and share our strategies to keep Florida a Paradise.

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April 29 - May 2, 2026

Oregon Museum Association 2026 Conference

Oregon Museums Association

Woodburn, Oregon

OMA will join forces with Oregon Heritage for a spring conference in Woodburn

Save the Date: 2026 Conference

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October 13 - October 15, 2025

2025 Michigan Museum Association Conference: The Future is NOW

Michigan Museums Association

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center

East Lansing, Michigan

The conference Keynote Speakers will address the conference theme of The Future is Now.

Four sets of concurrent sessions provide the opportunity for members of the Michigan museum community to share their expertise and resource

The Museum Cafe is a general session that provides the opportunity for participants to explore a variety of topics in short, small-group discussions

Returning this year is the newly named Slide Sprint Session, a set of PechaKucha-style presentations which will give five conference attendees the chance to reflect on the conference theme using 20 slides shown in 20 second intervals.

Monday and Wednesday Drop-In Activities and Workshop

All conference attendees are invited to show your conference name badge to visit area museums and explore Greater Lansing during the block sessions on Monday morning and afternoon, and on Wednesday afternoon. All of these drop-in activities are included in your conference registration.

Participants are also invited to sign up for small-group workshops. Advance registration is required and an additional fees range from $15 to $50 to cover expenses.

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October 1 - October 4, 2025

Western Museums Association’s (WMA) 2025 Annual Meeting

Western Museums Association

TBA

Reno, Nevada

Save the Date for WMA 202

As we celebrate our 90th anniversary, join us to build relationships and soar higher than ever before. With the theme of ELEVATE, WMA 2025 will explore ways to lift up the experiences of cultural professionals and the communities they serve.

In Reno, Nevada, 4,400 feet above sea level, we will forward the progress of museums by looking to the future.

September 10 - September 13, 2025

2025 Am Assoc for State and Local History Annual Conference

American Association for State and Local History

TBD

Cincinnati, Ohio

The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States.

The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future

We are excited for you to join us in Cincinnati as we encourage discussion about our democracy and civic institutions and how they can help strengthen understanding, inspire action, and reveal ways that all of us can participate in and shape the ongoing American experiment.

For more information, please call 615-320-3203 or email info@aaslh.org.

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