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2020 Museum Grants and Funding Opportunities

Grants Guides for Museums Located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Spain, and the United Kingdom
This New Year brings not only the start of a nominal decade, the twenty-twenties, but also an extra day to move your museum’s projects forward. Along with these events [...]

2020 Museum Grants and Funding Opportunities

How to Select the Right Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for Your Museum

As museums continue to generate more and more digital assets, it becomes increasingly clear how important it is to find the right Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for your institution.
New digital assets are constantly added through existing Museum Collections Management Software: new additions to collections come with accompanying digital media [...]

How to Select the Right Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for Your Museum

How to Select the Best Museum CMS with an RFP

Selecting a collections management system (CMS) can be a daunting task.
One way to make the selection process easier is to create a detailed Request for Proposals (RFP) and send it to the CMS suppliers you have shortlisted. This will help you compare them, as well as their service and software offering [...]

How to Select the Best Museum CMS with an RFP

Museum Grants and Funding Opportunities for 2019

Grants Guides for the USA, UK, and Europe
As 2019 rolls around, the start of the new year brings new museum grants and funding opportunities. You have a list of great ideas and projects that you’ve been thinking about executing, and now is the best time to figure out how to accomplish those goals. Sifting through grants takes time [...]

Museum Grants and Funding Opportunities for 2019

Resources for Small Museums

Overcoming the Challenges Faced by Smaller Institutions
Small museums and collections have the power to make huge impacts on their community, both inside and outside of the galleries. Museum collections, large and small, pack a powerful punch, while relying on a set of collections management standards to maintain collections objects and protecting works to share with a larger community [...]

Resources for Small Museums

When Digital Isn’t Just a Department

Four Museums with Inspiring Digital Strategies Examples
All museums have three tenets that bind them together: 1) museums acquire and preserve objects ethically, 2) museums advance the knowledge of cultures through studying those objects, and 3) museums share that knowledge and their objects with their public. These three tenets bind the museum community at large and can be found within [...]

When Digital Isn’t Just a Department

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

How a New DAMS Software Upgrade is Streamlining Workflows at MFAH
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, (MFAH) was founded in 1900 and opened to the public in 1924 with a mandate to bring “art into the everyday life” of the Houston community. Today, the museum boasts the largest art collection in the southwest region [...]

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Annual Museum Grants Guide to Help You Reach Your 2018 Collections Goals

Museum Grants for USA, Europe, and the UK
The start of the new year means that many annual museum grants have released their 2018 due dates, and museums can begin applying for a boost in funding. Adding new and interesting projects to your to-do list for 2018 is exciting [...]

Annual Museum Grants Guide to Help You Reach Your 2018 Collections Goals

Content Strategy: Is it all About Digital?

A Guide to Creating a Digital Content Strategy for Your Museum or Institution
Digital Content Strategies have become a popular topic among institutions, with many museums developing and even posting these strategies, aiming to stay accountable to their audiences. Open publishing allows museums to share details with their public, serving them and the museum mission [...]

Content Strategy: Is it all About Digital?
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