Good collections documentation enables use of your collections and ensures that your museum is properly accountable for the collections it holds.
West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) is partnering with Museum Development East Midlands and Collections Trust to deliver a programme of seven workshops across 2023/24 to support you in ensuring that your collections documentation is well managed.
Using the framework of Spectrum 5.1 and its collection documentation procedures, the workshops will focus on the planning and work required for museums to get their collections documentation in order.
The workshops
- Introduction to Spectrum – Thursday 4 May, 2pm-4pm
- Ownership of Collections – Thursday 22 June, 10am-12noon
- Location and movement control – Thursday 14 September, 10am-12noon
- Inventory and documentation planning – Thursday 12 October, 10am-12noon
- Loans in and out – January 2024 tbc
- Documentation histories and manuals – February 2024 tbc
- Audit – March 2024 tbc
The programme has been designed so that you can attend as many of the sessions as you need; overall they complement each other to give an overview of the Spectrum requirements, but each session also works as a stand alone workshop.
Bookings are open for the first four workshops, simply click on the workshop for more information and to book. Further details and dates of the other workshops to follow.
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