FRAME Annual Conference

Unlike many professional museum associations, FRAME includes those whose purview is the development of programs. Directors, curators, and museum educators, as well as the FRAME Board of Directors, convene at an Annual Conference to build collegiality and familiarity between French and North American member museums, and to discuss projects, opportunities and challenges facing museums in the 21st century. The Annual Conference is hosted at a member museum and alternates yearly between France and North America.

The FRAME Annual Conference provides a platform to introduce new colleagues in member institutions and it offers opportunities for professional conversations and scholarly exchanges, as well as a forum for the review of new initiatives, member’s exhibitions, and educational projects. FRAME organizes round table discussions, workshops, and breakout sessions, which unite museum directors, curators, museum educators and others in the network over the course of the two and a half-day conference.

These annual conferences have historically proved to be important gatherings for FRAME participants to discover new collaborations and spur research in members’ collections. Opportunities are frequently made available for conference participants to visit other FRAME institutions in the area, in order to learn firsthand about their exhibitions, educational programs, and collections.