About ASTC Membership Professional Services & Field Development Advocacy Conference

Be there for the premier networking and professional development event designed especially for people who work in and with science centers and museums. Conference is October 21–24, in San Jose, California (with preconference tours and workshops October 19–20; postconference tours October 24–25). Register soon and book your hotel today.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Don’t miss the largest global networking and professional development event for people who work in and with science centers and museums. ASTC 2017 will be hosted by The Tech Museum of Innovation, October 21–24, in San Jose, California.

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Hurricane Irma and ASTC Members

Todd Happer Member News

Updated Saturday, September 16 Fewer than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey hurtled into Houston and the surrounding region, Hurricane […]

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Science and Museum Programs Advance in U.S. Senate

Todd Happer Advocacy

On Thursday, September 7, the U.S. Senate’s Appropriations Committee voted for funding bills that advance many science and museum programs for […]

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Hurricane Harvey Impacts ASTC Members

Gillian Thomas Member News

Updated Tuesday, September 5 As the wind, rain, and floods from Hurricane Harvey continue receding, I want to update […]

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Remembering E. Verner Johnson

Emily Schuster Member News

E. Verner Johnson—an internationally recognized museum architect and founder of E. Verner Johnson & Associates—died on February 24, 2017, at […]

Upcoming Webinars—Preparing for ISCSMD

Walter Staveloz International Science Center and Science Museum Day

In the global society of today and tomorrow—where everyone is potentially connected but still separated by language, physical distance, […]

August 9, 2017 Read More

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