The next CAMM annual conference will take place at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, April 22–24, 2026.

Conference theme: Resilience and Relevance

How do we as maritime museums adapt and endure in a changing world? All institutions and programs encounter challenges, so what strategies do we look to when facing shifting financial or funding realities, new community priorities, or natural or human-caused calamities? In trying times, how do we reinvent ourselves while remaining true to our core values and missions?

The CAMM program committee invites presentation proposals that address institutional and programmatic resilience and relevance within one or more of the following maritime-museum areas of action: 

Exhibitions and interpretation

Education and outreach

Preservation

Collections

Watercraft and watercraft/waterfront programing

Administration and development

When submitting a proposal for this year’s conference, please be certain to explain how your topic fits into the overall conference theme.

All proposals are due by 8pm EST on Monday, December 1, 2025.

For full details go toThe next CAMM annual conference will take place at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, April 22–24, 2026.

Conference theme: Resilience and Relevance

How do we as maritime museums adapt and endure in a changing world? All institutions and programs encounter challenges, so what strategies do we look to when facing shifting financial or funding realities, new community priorities, or natural or human-caused calamities? In trying times, how do we reinvent ourselves while remaining true to our core values and missions?

The CAMM program committee invites presentation proposals that address institutional and programmatic resilience and relevance within one or more of the following maritime-museum areas of action: 

Exhibitions and interpretation

Education and outreach

Preservation

Collections

Watercraft and watercraft/waterfront programing

Administration and development

When submitting a proposal for this year’s conference, please be certain to explain how your topic fits into the overall conference theme.

All proposals are due by 8pm EST on Monday, December 1, 2025.

For full details go to https://councilofamericanmaritimemuseums.org/annual-conference/. Email any questions to the CAMM administrator at maritimemuseums@gmail.com. The CAMM program committee will evaluate each proposal, and you will be notified by Friday, December 19, if your presentation is accepted. All presenters will be required to register for the conference.

Please note:

Single presentations may be limited to 30 minutes, including a question-and-answer segment.. Email any questions to the CAMM administrator at maritimemuseums@gmail.com. The CAMM program committee will evaluate each proposal, and you will be notified by Friday, December 19, if your presentation is accepted. All presenters will be required to register for the conference.

To welcome new voices and new ideas, the CAMM program committee may give preference to speakers who have not presented at a CAMM conference within the last two years.

The program committee reserves the right to unite single presentations into loose panels as required.

Please note:

• To welcome new voices and new ideas, the CAMM program committee may give preference to speakers who have not presented at a CAMM conference within the last two years.
• The program committee reserves the right to unite single presentations into loose panels as required.
• Single presentations may be limited to 30 minutes, including a question-and-answer segment.