2025

SCHEDULE

Keynote

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

| Monday, Sept. 22

The 2025 National Conference on Cultural Property Protection will open with a keynote address from Meroë Park, Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Smithsonian Institution. Deputy Secretary and COO Park will welcome attendees and set the stage for the conference focused on the importance of leveraging partnerships in cultural property protection, ethical returns and shared stewardship of objects, and the evolving role of federal institutions in safeguarding heritage.