Thank you for joining us on Monday, November 9, 2026 at the McKimmon Center for the NCPC Annual Conference.

Breakfast and registration will be open from 9:00-9:30 am.

The full conference schedule is available here. 

The lunch buffet will be catered by Jasmin & Olivz Mediterranean. Breakfast, coffee and snacks will be provided by Rave! Catering.

Parking is free onsite directly in front of the building.

For directions to the McKimmon Center, click here.

The registration deadline for this year’s annual conference, “Preservation 250”, has been extended to 11:59 pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. Please join us on November 9th at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC to reflect on the people and ideas that shaped and continue to shape our national identity as relates to the preservation of our country’s cultural heritage over its 250-year history. Register Here.

Conference schedule can be found HERE.

John Aarsen (Ret. Brigadier General), Museum Director for the 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum, will be the keynote speaker for the North Carolina Preservation Consortium’s upcoming conference, “Preservation 250”, to be held on November 9th at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

John Aarsen’s civilian employment has been as the Museum Director for the 82d Airborne Division War Memorial Museum since 2004.  He has worked in the museum field since 1988, opening the Airborne and Special Operations Museum and serving as a curator at Old Cowtown Museum and Harvey County Historical Society. He served as an Army Reserve Soldier for 37 years from 1985 to 2022, twice deploying as an Army Historian commanding Military History units.   He retired as a Brigadier General. John Aarsen is a graduate of Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Arts in Public History.  He also has a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College.   

See full schedule HERE.

Register by October 28, 2026