Resources
These practical resources are designed for use by museum and heritage education practitioners working with a wide range of audiences.
My Primary School is at the Museum
This blog explores the project to test the benefits of co-locating primary and nursery school classes for extended periods of time within a museum.
The Conditions for Creative Communities
The Conditions for Creative Communities is an overview of factors to consider when embarking on creative collaboration in your community.
Working with Freelancers (SHARE guide)
This guide has been written to support museums in finding, appointing, briefing and working with freelancers and consultants, to help them to get the best out of the relationship.
Museum Freelance Network
A volunteer-run network set up to support and champion freelancers and consultants working with museums, galleries, archives, libraries, and heritage sites.
Heritage Volunteering Group
The Heritage Volunteering Group's mission is to help you unlock the power of volunteering through collaboration and sharing best practice.
Disability Co-operative Network
The Disability Co-operative Network promotes and embeds inclusive practice in the heritage and cultural sector.
Museums Association Salary Guidelines 2017
The MA Salary Guidelines 2017 address the issue of pay in the museum sector.
Museums as Spaces for Wellbeing
The National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing has launched a free online course: Museums as Spaces for Wellbeing, funded by Arts Council England and Wellcome. This course is aimed at providing advice, tools and guidance on the steps to take in order to develop, deliver and evaluate health and wellbeing work within a museum, heritage or cultural organisation.
Collections Trust
Collections Trust helps museums capture and share the information that gives their objects meaning. Their standards and advice are used around the world to make museum collections accessible. Collections Trust is based in the UK but works internationally. They help shape the documentation standards used in many countries, always in step with wider information management […]
Building a Learning Legacy – advice notes
The aim of the Building and Learning Legacy (BaLL) project was to provide practical support to museums and galleries throughout Wales by developing high quality learning and access programmes, in particular for smaller, less well resourced organisations and those without dedicated learning and access staff.