Level 1: Getting started
From Our Toolkit
What this might look like for you:
- you have little or no data about your audiences but you want to find out more about who is using your services
- you want to develop a project and/ or make a grant application and you need information about your audiences and potential audiences to support your application
- you want to put together a new exhibition / event and need to know more about the audiences
Suggested activity:
- Start to collect basic data collection about your in-person and virtual visitors.
- Ensure the data you collect is GDPR compliant
- Look at what other sources of information are available to help you understand your potential and current visitors
- Analyse data and use it to support the development of projects and to support funding applications
You can either work through the sections or dip in and out as you need to.
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- Our toolkit
- Welcome to the toolkit
- How to use this toolkit
- Governance
- Financial planning
- Income generation
- Fundraising
- Collections
- What do we mean by collections?
- The difference between the museum and archive approach
- Things to consider before you start
- Accreditation schemes
- Collections at risk
- Digitising your collection
- Collection management
- Collection care
- Hear it from an expert – Brian Worrell
- Hear it from an expert – Dave Smith
- Audiences
- Learning
- Evaluation
- Access
- Staffing and volunteers
- Community engagement
- Coming soon!
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Toolkit contents
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