Thomasville, the City of Roses, will host the 2010 Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries Annual Meeting Wednesday, January 20 through Friday, January 22, 2010. This year's conference theme is Keeping The Faith: Recovery and Renewal. More details will be posted as they become available.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Last year's sessions included a little something for everyone. If you would like to participate as a presenter or if you have participated in a professional development session that you feel would be particularly helpful to your colleagues, we would like to hear from you. You can reach Pat Morris at the Coastal Georgia Historical Society, PO Box 21136, St. Simons Island, GA 31522 or by email at pat@saintsimonslighthouse.org. Please send your ideas for presentations no later than June 15, 2009.

GAMG has prepared a brochure promoting Museums and Galleries in Georgia. The brochure is distributed in all 11 Georgia Visitor Centers. Each GAMG Member Museum is included in all Brochure printings.

The State of Georgia Visitor Centers were visited by almost 18 million visitors in FY06.

The Georgia Southern Museum, Statesboro, GA offers "From Protest to Peace: Murals by the Bogside Artists of Northern Ireland,". For information email museumexhibits@georgiasouthern.edu or call 912-478-5444. The exhibit website is www.ProtestToPeace.org.

The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum at Georgia Tech offers several travelling exhibits, most notably "The World of Paper". For more information call Cindy Bowden at 404-894-7840 or send an email. The exhibit web site is ipst.gatech.edu/amp/.

The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, announces it new traveling exhibition "Portraits in Gray: A Civil War Photography Exhibition featuring the collection of David Wynn Vaughan." Please contact Ava R. Wilkey at awilkey@kennesaw-ga.gov or 770-427-2117 extension 3058.

The Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, GA offers "Ty Cobb: The Georgia Peach" a traveling exhibit available for loan to Georgia museums. For details, contact Candy Ross at 706-245-1825 or by email at candy.ross@tycobbhealthcare.com.