Museums

We can all use additional resources to help us promote and sustain our heritage sites and collections. This page is designed to provide access to easily accessible resources that are important to our heritage community. If you have any resources you wish to share with your colleagues please send them to info@amnb.ca 

The Heritage Matters Report prepared by the Association Heritage New Brunswick can be found here.

Accessibility and Inclusion

• Digital Accessibility and Inclusion for Museums – The Museum Learning Hub provides an approach to ensuring that their digital projects are accessible and inclusive of people with disabilities.
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  • Webinars  (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

Administration

• Becoming Better Employers – A guide for museum administrators and HR professionals by the CMA.
• Roles and Responsibilities of Museum Boards of Trustees, CMA and CAMDO 2004 
•  Community Museum Project Development

Analytics

• Audiences and Analytics for Museums – Learn about the valuable insights that data can provide with a webinar from the Museum Learning Hub.
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  • Webinars  (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

Collections Management

• Managing Digitization Projects for Museums – The Museum Learning Hub teaches how to successfully conceptualized, plan and implement projects to expand the online presence of collections.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)
• Digitizing 3D Collections for Museums – The Museum learning up provides insight into 3D collections and digitization.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)
• Classification and Naming Objects in Museum Collections By The Government of Canada
• Museum Collections Documentation and Data Cleaning – Self-paced online course developed by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and house by Athabasca University. Takes 1-2 hours to complete.
• Object ID – The International Council of Museums provides a guide on how to properly document an object/belonging for your collections.
• Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging 
• Artefact Labelling and Marking Handbook

Community Engagement

• Building an Engagement Strategy from the Inside Out Session Slides – The CMA provides a guide help museum teams prepare, plan and carry out a community engagement strategy.
• Social Media for Museums – The Museum Learning Hub teaches how small museums can benefit from the power of social media.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

Exhibitions

• Creating Virtual Exhibitions – The Museum learning Hub helps us to learn about the curatorial possibilities of limitless virtual space and access.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

Museum Education

• Live streaming museums – Learn to develop live virtual programs, tours, and events with small budgets and basic technology tools with the Museum Learning Hub. 
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

• Podcasting for Museums – Learn about podcasting from professionals behind the 5 Plain Questions and Before Your Time podcasts presented by the Museum Learning Hub.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

• Video Production for Museums – The Museum Learning Hub teaches how to integrated video production and digital storytelling into your education, programming and communication plans.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)

• Webinar on School Educational Program for Museums – Watch this webinar from the Ontario Museum Association to learn what to consider when deciding if and how to create your own virtual school programs.

Museum Preservation and Housekeeping

• Preservation Housekeeping for Heritage Sites and Small Museums – Self-paced online course developed by CCI and house by Athabasca University. Takes 1.5 hours to complete.
• CCI – Emergency Preparedness for Cultural Institutions: Identifying and Reducing Hazards
• Museum Health and Safety Program Template Document
  

Reconciliation and Repatriation

•  Moved to Action – a list from the CMA of helpful resources to support museums in their decolonizing efforts.
  • Standards for Museums  – An 11×17″ printable featuring all 30 Moved to Action standards.
  • Timeline: Indigenous Peoples Day – A 2-page printable featuring the history behind Indigenous Peoples Day.
  • What We Heard Report – A report on repatriation initiatives, resources, and cooperative decision-making, culminating in an action plan to advance a national repatriation framework and ongoing collaboration.
  • Repatriation of Cultural Heritage to Indigenous Nations in Canada: International Guidance for Museums
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
  • More than Giving Back – A  guide for supporting repatriation and collections management practices.

Standards and Guidelines

• Guidelines for museums in New Brunswick
• Guidelines on Deaccessioning of the International Council of Museums (ETHCOM, 2019)
• Standards on Accessioning of the International Council of Museums (ETHCOM, 2020)
• Standards on Fundraising of the International Council of Museums (ETHCOM, 2020)

Website projects

• Managing Website Project – The Museum Learning Hub helps us to learn how to manage website projects through times of great change using teams of volunteers, in-house staff and community partners.
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  • Webinars (4; 2 Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels)