Dates |
CMEG Milestones |
1981 – 1985 |
Museum Communicators Group meets (a precursor to CMEG) |
Aug 1991 |
Planning for CMEG begins |
Oct 1991 |
First monthly CMEG meeting |
Mar 1993 |
First CMEG Road Trip: House on the Rock, Spring Green, WI
How can a “museum” that breaks all the rules be so much fun? |
Spring 1996 |
Second CMEG Road Trip: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
Hey, hey rock and roll!!! |
Feb 1996 |
CMEG Label Writing Workshop at Field Museum |
Dec 1997 |
CMEG Members Directory–first edition |
Dec 1998 |
CMEG meetings go to 4-5 times a year |
Apr 2003 |
Third CMEG Road Trip: Memphis, Tennessee
Graceland, Sun Studio, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum, and the Gibson Guitar Plant |
May 2007 |
American Association of Museums annual conference, Chicago
CMEG hosts a Mentoring Roundtable: "One Hundred Reasons to form a professional networking group in your area - and how to do it successfully"
CMEG Develops and distributes a brochure entitled "100 years of Museum Exhibitions: A Tour of Chicago's Milestones" |
Oct 2008 |
CMEG drops snail-mail in favor of solely e-mailed invitations; and creates an e-mail only pdf of the CMEG directory |
Fall 2009 |
CBusMEG (Columbus Museum Exhibitors Group) starts up in Columbus, Ohio – modeled after CMEG |
Nov 2009 |
CMEG joins Facebook |
Dec 2009 |
New CMEG website |
| Sep 2011 |
CMEG's 20th Anniversary (with cupcakes) |
| Oct 2016 |
CMEG's 25th Anniversary (with cake)
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Meetings
