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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?

National and Regional Grants to Help Get Your Collection Online with eMuseum

Acquire the Funding You Need to Showcase Your Collections Online
Digital engagement has changed the way audiences interact with institutions, and it’s now expected for museums to display their collection online. Digitizing objects for the web can be time-consuming and expensive [...]

National and Regional Grants to Help Get Your Collection Online with eMuseum

I’m Here, but My Database Is There: Accessing TMS When You’re Away From Your Home Base

Setting Up Remote Access to Your Collections Management Software
Between off-site visits, courier trips, and after-hours projects, there are a lot of reasons users can benefit from remote access to TMS on a smartphone or tablet. Connecting to TMS on your mobile device is a simple process [...]

I’m Here, but My Database Is There: Accessing TMS When You’re Away From Your Home Base

The American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo

Washington, D.C. | May 26-29, 2016
The American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo is the largest gathering of museum professionals in the world, and will take place in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. This year’s theme will explore museums as places of social influence [...]

The American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo

Crafting Your Digital Strategy? The Warhol Puts Theirs Online

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When museums are able to embrace new technologies, they can bring sweeping changes to the institution that supports the museum, their staff, and their public on a higher level than ever before [...]

Crafting Your Digital Strategy? The Warhol Puts Theirs Online

Museum Grants Available in 2016

North American Grants to Fund Collections Care, Management, and Sharing
It’s January, a time for resolutions, new beginnings, and checking if any 2016 grants apply to the projects your museum has in the works. To help you get started, grants available in the coming year are listed below. Similar to last year, the impetus behind many of the 2016 grants [...]

Museum Grants Available in 2016
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