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“Ang.nga hll k̲uuyada: It is precious to me” Keynote
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“By nature, museums reflect the social climate they exist within. Responsible museums bring attention to historic and current paradigms, all the while looking to the future. Effective museums not only have people paying attention, they inspire those people to engage…
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Emergency Response Plan: West Parry Sound District Museum
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This resource is the West Parry Sound District Museum’s Emergency Response Plan. The plan includes evacuation procedures, collections, salvage and recovery procedures, floor plans, call lists, and much more.
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The Sensational Museum Glossary
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This resource is an extensive glossary created by the Sensational Museum. The Sensational Museum is a research project radically re-thinking the role of senses in museums. This interdisciplinary project will design and create sensory interventions that are accessible to all…
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Developing a Disaster Preparedness/Emergency Response Plan
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Preparing for disaster is one of the most important things a museum can do in order to safeguard its collections and protect staff and visitors from hazards. This guide provides a primer on disaster preparedness and helps museums understand the…
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CCI Note 14/2: Emergency Preparedness for Cultural Institutions: Identifying and Reducing Risks
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This guide lists hazards that may threaten your institution or its collections. This list is meant to serve only as a guideline. Add or delete hazards from this list to fit your situation, and use the answers to these questions to…
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Emergency Preparedness Framework: Emergency and Disaster Plan
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The Emergency and Disaster Plan was created by the Alberta Museums Association. The guide they provide is a comprehensive procedural document that guides a museum’s response in an emergency or disaster. Ensure that the document you develop from their template…
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A Guide to Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
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This guide, supported with examples and illustrations, provides a scientific model and methodology for risk examination and assessment. It enables cultural heritage professionals and institutions to devise intervention plans based on thorough assessment, which can ultimately facilitate decision-making processes.
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Moved to Action: Activating UNDRIP in Canadian Museums
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This comprehensive report seeks to determine the level of compliance that museum policies and best practices have with UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) and hopes to provide a national baseline of support for Canadian museums.…
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Virtual School Programming: Whose Land Organizational Activity
Christina Sydorko, Oil Museum of Canada NHS • Karen Taylor, the Canadian Canoe Museum • Michael Furdyk, TakingITGlobal • Ontario Museum AssociationSummary
On May 25, 2022 the OMA hosted the webinar “Virtual School Programming – Decision Making for Small Museums“, with Christina Sydorko, Oil Museum of Canada; Karen Taylor, Canadian Canoe Museum; and Michael Furdyk, TakingITGlobal. The panel shared this organizational activity…
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Virtual School Programming Decision Making Worksheet
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On May 25, 2022 the OMA hosted the webinar “Virtual School Programming – Decision Making for Small Museums“, with Christina Sydorko, Oil Museum of Canada; Karen Taylor, Canadian Canoe Museum; and Michael Furdyk, TakingITGlobal. Christina Sydorko created this practical worksheet…
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Small Bytes Webinar Series: Podcasting for Ontario Museums Toolkit
Adrian Petry, St. Catharines Museum & Welland Canals Centre • Angela Bobier, Backus-Page House Museum • Kathleen Powell, City of St. Catharines • Maxime Escario Blanco, Beyond Reach Productions Inc. • Ontario Museum AssociationSummary
On July 2023, the OMA hosted the webinar “Podcasting in Ontario Museums“, with panelists: Kathleen Powell, City of St. Catharines; Adrian Petry, St. Catharines Museums and Welland Canals Centre; Maxime Escario Blanco, Beyond Productions; and Angela Bobier, Backus-Page House Museum;…
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Actionable Online Accessibility Toolkit: Small Bytes Webinar Series
Francis Tomkins, Tangled Art + Disability • Ontario Museum Association • Sean Lee, Tangled Art + Disability • Shelley Boden, Access AdvisorSummary
On February 22 2023, the OMA hosted the webinar “Actionable Online Accessibility“, in which the panel of museum experts discussed how to increase the accessibility of websites, online exhibits, online programs and social media to ensure that digital transformation also…
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Small Bytes Webinar Series: Approaches to Online Exhibits Toolkit
Heidi Reitmaier, Myseum of Toronto • Kendra Campbell, Royal Ontario Museum • Natalie Wood, Brockville Museum • Ontario Museum Association • Peter Pavement, Surface ImpressionSummary
On March 9th 2023, the OMA hosted the webinar “Approaches to Online Exhibits“, with a panel of museum experts including: Peter Pavement, CEO at Surface Impression; Kendra Campbell, Interpretive Planner at the Royal Ontario Museum;Natalie Wood, Curator/Director at Brockville Museum;…
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Digital Strategy Checklist Tool
Corey Timpson, Corey Timpson Design Inc. • Mary-Katherine Whelan, Amherstburg Freedom Museum • Ontario Museum AssociationSummary
On April 29, 2022 the OMA hosted the webinar “The Digital Strategy – Intention through Application“, with Corey Timpson, Corey Timpson Design Inc. and Mary-Katherine Whelan, Amherstberg Freedom Museum. This checklist is a tool to help small organizations ensure deliberate…
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Honouring Our Roots: The City of Hamilton’s Indigenous Landmarks and Monuments Review
Angela DeMontigny, Designer, Artist, Entrepreneur • Heather George, Woodland Cultural Centre • John Summers, City of Hamilton • Keith Jamieson, Ethno-Historian, Curator, Adjunct Professor • Ontario Museum AssociationSummary
This video recording from the Ontario Museum Association Annual Conference 2022 features: In 2019, the City of Hamilton began the process of reviewing their pre-existing landmarks, spaces, monuments, and markers, in order to address the perpetuation of settler colonialism, systemic…
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Guelph Museums Collection Management Policy
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Guelph Museums’ collection management policy sets forth the goals and standards of Guelph Museums with respect to managing its collections.
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Accessibility Plan 2023-2027
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This document outlines the Peterborough Museum & Archives’ updated strategy to prevent and remove barriers to accessibility following public engagement activities in 2022. For the PMA, an accessible museum is one that offers equal access to the museum property, buildings,…
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Innovating with Collections Online
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The Ontario Museum Association is pleased to share, in collaboration with Toronto History Museums and Digital Action Research & Training, a new resource for museums to ethically collect, preserve, and leverage oral histories and born-digital collections.
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Governance Standards
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This site is where the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport provide the standards for which a museum must follow regarding governance. As a community museum, you must be governed according to standards and be open and accountable to the…
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Vision, Purpose, & Strategic Objectives
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This governance policy outlines the vision, mission and strategic objectives that guide those who are responsible for any aspect of museum operation, management, or governance of the ROM.
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Board Governance Policy
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This governance policy outlines the duties and responsibilities expected of the ROM’s board members.
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Memoranda of Understanding and Formal Agreements
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The ROM’s policy on MOU’s and Formal Agreements covers all binding agreements that commit the institution to significant long‐term actions with regard to its primary activities, including collecting, research, exhibitions, programs, and publications. The purpose of this policy is to…
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Governance Policy
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This governance policy outlines the principles by which the Simcoe County Museum operates. This resource can be used as an example for structuring governance policy.
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Impacts on Governance Design for Nonprofit Organizations
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This resource highlights six impacts that shape nonprofit organizations’ governance design related to enablers of culture, structure, people and processes. This resource enables nonprofit leaders to proactively respond to the impacts by reflecting on how they play out in their…
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Municipal Conflict of Interest Act
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This legislation requires local government representatives to disclose pecuniary (i.e. financial) interests and to abstain from decision-making on matters in which they have such interests.
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Ethics Guidelines
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This document looks at how a museum worker/museum, when faced with an ethical dilemma, can resolve it in a balanced manner. The purpose of the guideline is to promote a climate of integrity, assist museum workers and museums with making…
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Not-for-profit Corporation By-laws
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This guide looks at what not-for-profit organizations who want to be, or are incorporated by the NFP Act must know about creating and amending corporation by-laws.
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How PIPEDA Applies to Charitable and Non-Profit Organizations
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This resource outlines the specific cases for when the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to charitable and non-profit organizations.
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Report on Amalgamation Issues- Findings and Recommendations
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This report outlines in detail the process taken by Norfolk County as they amalgamated their culture and heritage system. The report shows their initial thoughts of areas of issues and the steps they took to get to a list of…
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ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums
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This code of ethics policy document outlines the minimum standards of ethics that are accepted by the international museum community. The standards are presented as a series of principles supported by guidelines for desirable professional practice.
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20 Questions Not-for-profit Organizations Should Ask: Recruiting, Developing, Assessing and Renewing Directors
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This publication offers a practical guide to help Not-for-profit organizations establish processes for director/board recruitment, development, assessment, and renewal.
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Practicing Inclusion through Object-Based Learning
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In this talk, Dr. Nicole Ivy; Director of Inclusion American Alliance of Museums, shares about object based learning as a tool of inclusion for museum visitors; especially youth. Dr. Ivy shares examples of what object based learning can look like…
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From Living History to Living the History
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In this webinar Katrina Pyke and Ellen Tayles-Armstrong explore the need for museums to challenge the status quo and adapt to changing visitor expectations and patterns; how to shift a deeply rooted community museum culture; and how to accept that…
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How to Produce Clear Written Materials for a Range of Readers
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This leaflet outlines the principles that will help you to present written texts clearly and taking into account the needs of your readers. For individuals to participate fully in your work, they must be able to read and fully understand…
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Service to People: Challenges and Rewards, How Museums Can Be More Visitor-Centred
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This report explores how museums, large and small, are making service to visitors a central part of their institutions. The report shares stories and examples of various efforts museums have accomplished to improve visitor experience.
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Developing Evaluations That Are Used
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This guide outlines how to make an effective evaluation that produces results that interest and engage its target audience.