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Policies for Managing Collections 4 week online course begins July 6 on Museum Study
Museums today are faced with many new and unexpected challenges, including climate change, developing sustainable practices in collection care, preservation of digital information, decolonization and repatriation, changing environmental parameters for collection storage, and strategies for coping with ever-larger collections with shrinking budgets. In his May 2024 webinar, John E. Simmons discussed how good collection management policies can help museums address these issues and other topics in the new, revised third edition of Things Great and Small: Collection Management Policies.
Join instructor John Simmons author of Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies for the 4 week long course Policies for Managing Collections. In this course we will critically examine the purposes and functions of collections management policies, including how collections are defined, acquired, managed, used, maintained, and deaccessioned.
Learn how to write collections management policies for your own institution and how to evaluate the effectiveness of your policies. Participants can purchase the Third Edition of the book at a discount.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/policies-for-managing-collections

Are you juggling multiple projects while wearing numerous hats?
Working across teams and partners while navigating constant change?
Trying to improve how things work but struggling to create the space to do it?
Join us on Tuesday June 9 for a Museum Study webinar, Adaptable Agile Museums presented by Belinda Waldock.
Learn how museum teams across the UK are adopting agile approaches to navigate shifting landscapes, complex collaborations, uncertainty, and the unknown.
Agile museums use approaches that connect the whole museum, creating alignment across teams, projects, and priorities while enabling a more responsive and adaptable way of working.
Discover how to build resilience, flexibility, and adaptability across your organisation while juggling multiple projects and wearing numerous hats. At the same time, empower volunteers and ignite innovation and creativity.
This session is relevant across the whole museum, from exhibitions and events to education, collections, curation, conservation, marketing, leadership, and communications.
In this talk, Belinda Waldock will explain what agile is and why it works so effectively in museums and cultural organisations. She will share stories and insights from her work across the UK, bringing practical examples to life.
You’ll leave with simple, actionable ideas to help you become more adaptable in both your work and your wider life.
Belinda Waldock works with museums across the UK to adopt agile approaches that build organisational resilience and support innovation. With a background in growth, innovation, and wellbeing, she has founded and grown not-for-profit organisations and is the author of Being Agile in Business, published by Pearson.
To register for the webinar email [email protected] with the subject: Adaptable Agile Museums. Please include your name, institution, and title.

Moving Museum Collections online course begins March 30 on Museum Study
Are you planning a remodel, new storage, or a new building and will need to move all or part of your collection? Don't wait until the last minute. Join Instructor Lori Benson, veteran of three large scale museum collection moves, for the 4 week online course Moving Museum Collections.
This course provides an overview of how to plan and manage a move to avoid the many pitfalls. The course will help you define the scope of your project, develop a work plan and schedule, prepare a communication scheme, define proposals for vendors, choose equipment, estimate costs, identify hazards, organize staffing, and establish packing techniques and standards. Whether you are moving across the hall or across town, Moving Museum Collections will provide a guide for a successful move.
For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/moving-museum-collections/

Museum Study Moving Museum Collections Moving Museum Collections course. Instructor Lori Benson. A how-to for planning and managing a museum collections move to avoid the many pitfalls associated with a move project.