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Heritance Resources & Reference Materials

"Museums are no longer their own excuse for being. As the resources they require have become greater and greater so, too, have the expectations of those called upon to provide those resources. What is demanded today is that organizations perform, deliver, and demonstrate their effectiveness."

Weil, S.I. (2003) "Beyond Big and Awesome: outcome-based evaluation",
Museum News Nov/Dec 2003:40-53.

Heritance Corporate Documents

Strategic Plan - 1 June 2008 version (first adopted 1 April 2007) (PDF)
Heritance Executive Summary (PDF)
Minutes - Annual Board Meeting, 26 March 2008 (PDF)
Minutes - Annual Board Meeting, 23 March 2007 (PDF)
Heritance Corporation Bylaws - adopted 23 March 2007 (PDF)
Articles of Incorporation + Amendment (PDF)
Seed Grant Proposal / Application Forms for Heritance partner museums are now available from the "Apply" page
Heritance Growth Model (PDF)
Heritance Projects and Partners
Heritance Evaluation Policy and Forms - information on our project evaluation process is available upon request; please contact us (Heritance members, log in here to view the document (PDF))
Heritance Compensation Policy (PDF) - for executive team and consultants
Heritance Communication Process for project partners

Le processus de communication d’Heritance

NOTE:

email Maureen

Heritance Marketing Materials

Heritance Highlights - April 2008 (PDF)
The Heritance blog: "In-Heritance"
Heritance Brochure - (English Letter 8.5 x 11", PDF, 780 K).
Heritance Brochure - (English A4, PDF, 1.8 MB).
Heritance Brochure - (Français Letter 8.5 x 11", PDF, 1.7 MB).
Heritance Brochure - (Français A4, PDF, 790 K).

Heritance Presentations & Publications

"Cultural Tourism and the Open Museum", by Maureen Ward Doyle & Jeff Doyle. Paper presented to the International Symposium on Georgian Arts & Culture, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2008.6.29

Project and Partner-related Information

please visit the Project & Gallery page

Museum Resources

In-Heritance blog: Museum news, project updates and musings from the directors of Heritance, Maureen Doyle and Jean Bermon. Maureen writes in English, et Jean écrit en français - www.heritance.org/blog
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): Minimum Standards / Code of Ethics for Museums
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

New Tools for Museums

A list of ideas for connecting with your visitors in new ways

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.

Museums Events & Meetings

The Best in Heritage : : 27-29 September 2007 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
The world's only survey of the best museum, heritage and conservation projects: www.thebestinheritage.com
Dartmouth College : : 10 January - 21 March, 2008 - Hanover, NH, USA
"Who Owns the Past?"
American Association of Museums : : 13-17 May 2007 - Chicago, USA
Annual Meeting & MuseumExpoT
Berkshire Conference : :
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute hosts the annual Berkshire conference, which provides a forum for exploring the social, cultural and economic ramifications of the dynamic and increasingly complex interaction between the worlds of business and culture

Museums in the News

NY Times : : History's Real Stuff by Kathryn Shattuck, published September 9, 2007
Institute of Museum and Library Services : : Manhattan and New Orleans Children's Museums Offer Mutual Support in Turbulent Times

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