Evaluating the Quality of Museum Data
Tips to make sure your museum data is good quality; the cleaner it is, the easier to migrate seamlessly from one CMS or spreadsheet to another CMS.
A Year in Review: An Assessment of the 2022 Museum Forecast
Recap of how three areas helped evolve the museum field in 2022: accessibility, elimination of “entry-level” jobs, and a digital boom.
Museum Digital Tools: Budget and Funding
You’ll successfully move a museum digital project forward if you know how to budget, how to accurately calculate costs, and where to find funding
Museum Digital Projects: Standards to Follow
Covers quality, file format, and metadata (cataloging) standards as the most common standards for museum digital project work.
Applying DEI to Museum Collection Development — Part 2
Challenges museum staff face when engaging in the reparative and post-custodial models of DEI collections development; strategies for success.
Museum Digital Projects: Elements to Include
Museum digital project planning should include who, what, why, when and how questions; advice for project managers
Museum Digital Projects: Pre-Project Evaluation
Museum digital pre-project evaluation is an excellent approach to intentional work—setting you and the collections up for a more successful result.
Applying DEI to Museum Collection Development — Part 1
As museums integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives into programs it’s important to apply a DEI lens to collecting practices.
Museum Digital File Preservation: File Access
Basics of maintaining digital file integrity and access, tips for how museum staff can protect and preserve museum digital files.
3 Things to Consider When Purchasing Museum Digitization Equipment
There are three things to consider before making a digitization equipment purchase: fit, time, and budget; tips from a museum expert.
Museum Digital Project Consultant: Training
Training is critical to a successful digital project and is where using a consultant can yield a high Return on Investment (ROI).
Museum Digital Project Consultant: CMS Selection and Implementation
With CMS selection led by a consultant, decision-makers can feel confident in the chosen tool and more easily agree to the financial investment.
Museum Digital Project Consultant: Assess and Recommend
Highlights several digital project types where a museum consultant can be beneficial. Outlines how a consultant can help support museum staff.
Strategies to Effectively Work with Museum Staff, Interns, and Volunteers
Effective teams involving a hybrid of museum staff, interns, and volunteers require established communication patterns, unified training, and respect.
Museum TrendsWatch: Right-Sizing the World
Museums have largely based their success on capitalist models, using for-profit values of power, productivity, and economic metrics of success.
Museum TrendsWatch: Emergency Response in the Face of Disaster
Many disasters are driven by climate change; museums can use their nonpartisan credibility and communications skills to build climate policy consensus.
Myth #3: It’s too Hard to Digitize Museum Collections
It’s a myth that digitizing museum collections is too expensive, slow, or hard from a technical perspective. Provides context and ideas.
Myth #2: It’s Easy to Digitize Museum Collections
Museum collection digitization is not cheap, not fast, not technically easy. Museum professionals should educate stakeholders about this myth.
Myth #1: You Should Digitize All the (Museum) Things!
There are five museum digitization myths, and it’s time to dispel them. The first myth is that we can or should digitize the entire museum collection
How to Calculate an Appropriately Sized Funding Request
The budget is key to a grant application; it’s the last check to ensure everything is correct and your budget request aligns with the project scope.
How to Construct a Fundable Museum Digital Project
Overview of seven core areas to focus on in grant applications and how to construct a museum digital project to gain a competitive advantage in each.
Who Funds Museum Digital Projects?
Museum funders want to support the most interesting aspects of museum work, but there are grants for foundational projects, especially digital ones
Building a Blueprint for Future Digital Projects
To help with planning digital projects, create a blueprint for where/how each pending project will fit in; elements of blueprint for success
How to Identify Museum Digital Project Ideas
Museum staff must find ways to prioritize and protect uninterrupted thinking time to generate compelling, achievable museum digital project ideas
Tips for the Museum Worker: Survival Edition
Tips from a museum expert and consultant to help museum workers—and the broader museum community—survive the uncertainty of the next pandemic year.