Detailed guidance from museum expert on how to influence the museum budget even when you aren’t charged with assembling or approving the budget.
How to Influence the Museum Budget
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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
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