About Us
"Heritage teaches about the past and informs the future."
Our Objectives
HERITANCE meets a critical need by:
- Utilizing donated funds to deliver affordable museum consulting services to the museum in need;
- Coordinating an extended network of museum professionals to provide strategic approaches to point solutions;
- Making available Web-distributed resources and tools for continuing museum development;
- Awarding seed grants to museums.
Our Free Services
Heritance is a non-profit organization which provides the following services to museums free of charge:
- On-site workshops given by museum professionals on many areas of museum development, including: community outreach, strategic planning, business management, building layout & use, website and digital media design, school curriculum development, narrative studies, grant writing, and exhibit design & implementation including virtual and online exhibits
- Consulting services by skilled museum professionals, either on-site or long-distance
- Long-term collaborative relationships, including on-going communications, evaluations and follow-up visits
- Web-distributed resources and tools for continuing museum development
- Assistance with improving physical, intellectual, social, accessibility to museums
- Guidance on environmental issues & education
- Online community of partner museums & overlap organizations. We believe that partnerships with other museums, cultural organizations and local businesses, institutions and organizations can strengthen a museum. Part of our mission is to create opportunities for museums to develop partnerships.
- An online Museum Gallery (coming soon) that will offer our partner network an international showcase
- Seed grants awarded to selected museums.
If you would like more information, please contact us.

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