Open Museum BlogResources & Reference Materials
- OMo FAQ - OPEN MUSEUM Frequently Asked Questions: This brief FAQ document, answers key questions about Heritance's core program Open Museum (OMo), a web-based service that will enable museum stakeholders to build interactive collaborative exhibits online.
- Museum Handbook: This three-part Museum Handbook, published by the National Park Service, is a reference guide on how to manage, preserve, document, access and use museum collections.
- FIAE (Foundation for International Arts and Education): FIAE is a foundation created to help protect and preserve the historical and cultural legacy of the countries of the former Soviet Union.
- UNESCAP article on "What is Good Governance?" This article tries to explain, as simply as possible, what "governance" and "good governance" means. Published by The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
- UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity - 2001: A legal instrument which recognizes, for the first time, cultural diversity as a "common heritage of humanity" and considers its safeguarding to be a concrete and ethical imperative, inseparable from respect for human dignity.
- Gelman Library: Museum Studies overview guide that includes bibliographies, guides, indexes, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works and resources useful for research in museum studies.
- ICOM (International Council of Museums): Museums and Cultural Diversity: Policy Statement
- AAM (American Association of Museums): Accreditation Standards
- Townships Heritage: An online resource from Canadian Heritage
- Museum Trustees Association: The network for advising, informing & inspiring museum trustees
- Irish Museums Association: Promotes the interests of museums and those who work in them throughout Ireland, both north and south
- Muséolab: Muséolab is an experimentation space for museography at the Erasme Center. Its objective is to test concepts that could be implemented in future museums.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services: The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. www.imls.gov
- Shaping Outcomes: An online, instructor-mediated course on Outcome Based Planning and Evaluation (OBPE) for library and museum personnel as well as students in the museum and library fields.
- Northeast Document Conservation Center: 24-hour hotline: www.nedcc.org
- Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America's Collections: http://www.heritagepreservation.org/HHI/full.html
- VMGA - Vermont Museum and Gallery Association: www.vmga.org (an Heritance cooperating organization)
- VHS - Vermont Historical Society: www.vermonthistory.org
- Outreach Events and Workshops - Mixed media artist Flora Viale offers customizable creative workshop services for museums to use in outreach programming. Viale works with groups to explore the creative possibilities of found materials and the limits of imagination. Originally from Italy, Flora has been an exhibiting artist and an art consultant in the United States for over 30 years, and holds a BFA and an MA in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton. www.floraviale.com
- Museum Blogs - Explore museums who blog at www.museumblogs.org. Blogs are an excellent way for museums and cultural orgnizations to keep their stakeholders and communities involved. They are a cost-effective means of communicating and sharing information in a format that people perceive as being more casual and personal, and to which they - as stakeholders - can contribute to through the blog's Comment feature. Heritance is exploring ways of using blogging to help our partner museums connect with their communities.