About ASTC Membership Professional Services & Field Development Advocacy Conference

Thank you to all who participated in the 2018 ASTC Annual Conference, September 29–October 2 in Hartford, Connecticut, and helped make it the best networking and professional development event yet! ASTC extends special appreciation to Matt Fleury and the Connecticut Science Center team, all the ASTC2018 sponsors and exhibitors, the ASTC Conference Program Committee, and every session leader and presenter.

Learn More

ASTC members include not only science centers and museums, but also nature centers, aquariums, planetariums, zoos, botanical gardens, space theaters, and natural history and children’s museums, as well as companies that offer products and services to the field and nonprofit organizations that have an interest in science education.

Learn More

The Professional Development team works with ASTC members to bring informal science learning opportunities to the field through communities of practice (CoPs), webinars, project websites, workshops, the ASTC Annual Conference, minigrant programs, and more. ASTC also advances field development through project collaborations with our members and other partners.

Professional Services Field Development

ASTC's Office of Government and Public Relations is your voice on policy issues of priority interest to the science center and museum field, locally, nationally, and globally. ASTC represents the field on these issues at national and international levels, and provides material relevant to the local advocacy needs and interests of science centers and museums everywhere.

Learn More