BCMA Mentorship Program
Connecting emerging museum professionals with experienced cultural professionals, helping to build lasting relationships and strengthen connections within the museum and gallery sector.
The mentorship program is temporarily paused. Check out year-round mentorship opportunities below!
If you have specific questions, please explore the BCMA Listserv and the BCMA TEAM Program.
BCMA mentorship program
This program connects emerging museum professionals with mid- or late-career professionals, to help build lasting relationships, and to strengthen connections within the museum and gallery sector.
The BCMA mentorship program provides emerging museum professionals (EMPs) with a loosely structured mentorship pairing with a suitable professional in a similar field. Mentorship relationships typically run for approximately eight months, with mentors and mentees ideally meeting about once a month. The BCMA mentorship program is a member benefit program – i.e. only available to BCMA members in good standing.
While it is suggested that mentorship pairs meet up approximately once a month, they may of course meet more than that. If you are accepted into the mentorship program, you agree that you are able to uphold the time commitment that the program requires for relationship building.
The collective knowledge of BCMA members is a tremendous resource – our members hold a wealth of experience and expertise; many seasoned professionals have been active in the museum and heritage sector and within the BCMA for many years.
