How to Build the Case for Museum Job Salaries
Museum expert gives details, dos and don’ts of how to navigate tough but important discussions about salaries with the decision-makers at your museum.
Examples for How to Calculate Museum Job Salaries Accurately
Museum expert gives details of how to put compensation data together to pinpoint accurate salary ranges for specific museum jobs and geographies.
How to Calculate Museum Job Salaries Accurately
Tips from a museum expert on how to calculate museum job salaries accurately, with detailed steps and information resources.
What Information to Gather for Museum Job Salaries
Tips from a museum expert on gathering and crunching numbers related to building your case for an accurate museum salary proposal.
Preferred Resources to Consult for Museum Job Salaries
Museum expert details resources and knowledge needed to calculate compensation and advocate for your worth as a museum professional
How to Fund a Museum Paid Internship
Practical suggestions from a museum expert on How to Fund a Museum Paid Internship when it is not part of the operational budget
How Much Should You Pay a Museum Intern?
Deciding what to pay museum interns requires knowing how to value professional labor so we can advocate for appropriate compensation; proven methods
How to Create a Meaningful Internship Experience
Internships are experiences for new professionals who need some real-world experience as they enter the museum profession as our colleagues.
Why Do Museum Internships Need to be Paid?
Museum interns are an important resource; how they are treated and compensated is indicative of how museum work itself is valued.
How to Influence the Museum Budget
Detailed guidance from museum expert on how to influence the museum budget even when you aren’t charged with assembling or approving the budget.
Gather Information to Inform the Museum Budget
Tips from museum expert on how and what information to gather for creating, reviewing, critiquing or asking questions of the museum budget
How to DEAI the Museum Budget
Now we understand DEAI as a permanent program, museums are including it in budgets, which requires reprioritization
How to Evaluate the Museum Operating Budget
Staff and Programs are two areas within the museum budget that are ripe for evaluation when attempting to determine a museum’s values and priorities
What a Museum Budget Says About Museum Values
Museums communicate what they value through a mission statement, strategic plan, annual budget, slush fund allocation, and fundraising activities
Make a Plan for Non-Standard Museum Data
Moving to a new museum Collections Management System (CMS) involves planning for the migration of your non-standard data; proven practices, strategies
Craft Museum Workflows That Include the CMS
Museum workflows are administrative documents that walk one or multiple people through a functional process: overview of steps in crafting a workflow
Document Museum CMS Fields and Function
Museum CMS data recording is governed by professional standards; understand what fields your data is in now and fields it must migrate to in a new CMS
Gather Data and Evaluate Museum CMS Use
Moving to a new museum Collections Management System (CMS) is a good time to evaluate how museum staff use current CMS in their daily workflow.
Post-Migration Data Cleanup and Refinement
Not all museum data cleanup can occur prior to migration to a new CMS. Best practices for data refinement post-migration from a museum expert
Items Required for Successful Data Migration
When a museum moves to a new CMS certain data requirements must be addressed prior to migration in order for it to complete successfully.
How to Prepare for Museum Data Migration
Migrating museum data to a new Collections Management System (CMS) requires completion of a series of activities before beginning migration.
What Does Museum Data Migration Entail?
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers guidance on each of the four main data migration activities when moving to a new CMS
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: The Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Climate Change
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers her analysis of The Metaverse, Web 3.0, and Climate Change from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
Ready to Read: Prepare for Takeoff: Get Your Museum Digital Project off the Ground
Book from museum expert guides professionals through prioritizing digital projects, finding grant funding, ending misperceptions, incorporating staff
Museum TrendsWatch 2023: Repatriation, Restitution, Reparations
Museum expert Rachael Cristine Woody offers her analysis of Repatriation, Restitution, Reparations from the current museum TrendsWatch report.
