The Western Museums Association (WMA) is a nonprofit, membership organization dedicated to serving museums, museum professionals, and related institutions by providing vision, enrichment, and intellectual challenge, as well as a forum for communication and interaction.Through training and educational programs, the WMA empowers the diverse museum community of the West to cultivate leadership and enable institutions to remain relevant in a dynamic world.Additionally, the WMA creates opportunities for its constituents to build skill sets to better serve their communities through their museums by providing professional development opportunities west of the Rockies, including in Alaska and Hawaii, the western Canadian provinces of Alberta, and British Columbia, among others.The WMA is a self-sustaining network of museum professionals strengthened by memberships (individual, institutional, and corporate), WMA's premier Annual Meeting, and valued partnerships.