Museum Essentials

A selection of museum and gallery essential resources that cover forward planning, governance, gaining charitable status and preservation and conservation.

Preservation and conservation (RR9)
Summarises the views of the Charity Commission on organisations set up for the charitable purposes of preservation and / conservation.
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Museums and Art Galleries (RR10)
Provides the Charity Commission’s views on the need for a museum or art gallery to satisfy a criterion of merit in order to be recognised as charitable.
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AIM Focus Paper: Creating and Implementing Forward Plans
This Focus Paper uncovers the essentials of forward planning, looking closely at the foundations of what a forward plan is, what it is for and why you should have one to how to communicate your finished plan and implement it. Uncertain futures are taken into consideration and advice is given on where to start, how to establish aims and objectives, allocate responsibilities, time, costs and produce budgets. Finally, the paper concludes with essential lessons learnt.
Download the AIM Focus Paper on Creating Implementing Forward Plans