Stronger Museums for a Stronger California California Association of Museums (CAM), an association founded in 1979, is dedicated to advancing museums across California in service to their communities. Today, CAM is one of the strongest and most active state museum associations in the nation, committed to advocating for museums while providing innovative and educational programs and services to museums and individual professionals.CAMs vision is "Stronger museums create a stronger CaliforniaX and the mission statement reads: CAM unifies and strengthens California museums to expand their collective impact. CAM currently has over 1,300 individual, business, and institutional members, located in over 40 of Californias 58 counties. CAMs governing body, the Board of Directors, consists of 19-23 directors and senior managers from museums of varying size and scope. The board members represent art institutions, history museums, multidisciplinary organizations, natural history/science museums, and institutions with living collections fro