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Closing A Museum Well
Alberta Museums Association • Association of Nova Scotia Museums • British Columbia Museums Association • Ontario Museum AssociationSummary
Recorded October 25, 2023 as part of the OMA’s Fall Workshop Series. Museums and galleries across Canada are increasingly having conversations about their future and exploring closure as an option. There are a multitude of reasons for museums closing, including…
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Beyond Bytown: Roundtable of Algonquin Leaders on Truth and Reconciliation and Museums
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On the 29th of September 2021, the Bytown Museum had a Roundtable of Algonquin Leaders speaking on, and discussing, the topic of Truth and Reconciliation and Museums. The Roundtable was introduced and moderated by Robin Etherington, former Executive Director of…
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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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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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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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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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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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CHIN Guide to Museum Standards
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This guide regards data and collection management. The guide provides standards for data to be more accessible through exhibition catalogues, public websites, and curatorial research. Standards also address automating data to be shared with other museums, libraries, and archives.
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Operating Artifacts in a Museum: Setting Policy
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This policy refers primarily to the operation of artifacts (specifically steam engines) in museums and heritage sites. The policy addresses arguments relating to interpretation, preservation, research, aesthetics, marketing, safety, and cost. IntroductionOperating artifacts in a museum setting must strike a…
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Our Collections Matter Toolkit
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This toolkit was created by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) to accelerate, increase and amplify activities that support sustainable development through the use, development and conservation of heritage collections. This…
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Collections Management System Criteria Checklist (CMSCC)
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As the CMSCC now includes over 800 criteria, these criteria checklists are intended to help institutions define requirements and select the system that is best suited to their needs. The checklists can be used to help an institution determine which…
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Guidelines for Choosing a Collections Management System
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This guide offers simple to detailed easy-to-use resources that help with understanding and selecting a Collections Management System (CMS). Some of the resources in this guide include recommended steps, questionnaires, and checklists. This guideline was created in 2020 by the…
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Collections Procedure Manual Table of Contents
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This table of contents from the Markham Museum’s Collections Procedure Manual serves as an example for what to include in a collections procedure manual.
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Collections Policy
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This collections policy document outlines the protocols surrounding objects for collections that the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) follows; from acquiring objects for accession, to maintenance, deaccessioning, etc. This resource was created by the ROM in 2018.
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Developing a Collections Management Policy
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This collections management document created by the American Alliance of Museums provides answers to the questions “What is a collections management policy?” and “What do I include when creating one?”. This policy document breaks down the requirements of a collections…
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Spectrum 5.1 UK Collections Management Standards
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This interactive website developed by Collections Trust outlines the UK standards of collections managament that is used around the world. This online interactive is beneficial for museums of all sizes and collection types.
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Indigenous Collections Symposium: Proceedings
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This report prepared by the Ontario Museum Association is a collection of all the papers presented at the Indigenous Collections Symposium. The intention of these papers are to open an ongoing conversation between museums, its members, and Indigenous (First Nations,…
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Indigenous Collections Symposium: Next Steps report
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This report presents the key themes of: Promising Practices, Challenging Issues and Changing the System, that emerged from the Indigenous Collections Symposium participants feedback. The report also provides recommendations for next steps that are built from the foundations laid at…
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Your Storage RE-ORG Project: Planning for it and Funding it
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This webinar explains the storage RE-ORG project and provides steps and tips on how to organize and maximize existing storage space in your museums for better access and conservation before looking into building new. This webinar also looks at how…