Empowering Collections calls for museums, funders and policy-makers to work together to ensure that museum collections are empowering, relevant and dynamic.
It is the result of sector wide research during 2018-19 and was published in April 2019. You can read it here.
There are 11 recommendations for the sector and within this call for collaboration and action the Stewardship of Collections principle is key:
- maintain and develop collections for current and future generations
- acquire, care for, exhibit and loan collections with transparency and competency in order to generate knowledge and engage the public with collections
- treat museum collections as cultural, scientific or historic assets, not financial assets.
If this is an area of specific interest for you you may want to enrol on our Working with Collections course as part of Museum Essentials.