Resource Category: Tools and Reports

Museum and Art Galleries Survival Strategies

(PDF 2021KB) A guide for reducing operating costs and improving sustainability.

Collections Biography Toolkit 2021

This Word Document toolkit provides a framework to undertake an initial survey of a museum collection to create a collection biography and provide an overview of the collection. A collection biography is useful as a simple aid to increase understanding of a collection and to give access to all who use it or are involved in its management.

Introduction to Ticketing for Museums and Galleries

A guide on how to introduce a timed entry booking operation, produced by Digital Culture Network and Arts Council England. This guide looks to break down the key areas to consider when implementing a new ticketing operation and potential tools and platforms that you can implement.

How To Use Microsoft Teams

A PDF of guidance on how to use Microsoft Teams.

Contactless Donation Systems

A Word document of resources created by Ilkley Manor House on using different contactless payment systems for donations.

Collections Management Checklist

This Word Document provides a simple check-list to determine the state of collections management procedures in your museum.

Gift Aid Resources

A zip file containing an essential guide to Gift Aid, including a template declaration and FAQs, from the Charity Finance Group.

A practical guide for text interpretation 2017

Leeds Museums and Galleries’ in house style and tone guide for text interpretation, which covers both writing text and the design factors that can make the text more accessible.

How To…build, extend and develop supporter engagement

This paper looks at different types of supporters and gives a guide as to how to develop a supporter network through building, extending, and developing engagement.

How To…develop a legacy giving programme

A guide to developing a legacy giving programme that will equip organisations to actively encourage supporters to remember the organisation in their will.