Resources
There are a number of places for anyone looking for guidance and resources in managing museum collections.
Museums Australia NSW's Museum methods is an excellent general guide.
The Heritage Collections Council's reCollections - caring for collections across Australia is available online, together with their guide to signficance assessment, recently published in a new edition as Significance 2.0, and a wealth of further material is available through the different branches of Museums Australia.
Detailed conservation advice is available through the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), whose website also lists consultant conservators.
One of the most comprehensive lists of current references on museum studies is available in the form of the Museum Studies Catalogue of the Leicester University Bookshop in the UK.
Crozier
Schutt Associates have developed a number of resources which are the
basis of our work on relevant projects, and to which we will add from time to
time. Feel free to download and use them if they seem useful to you, with
appropriate acknowledgement. They include
Example of a project brief –
Australian Working Women, Australian Workers Heritage Centre,
2001
Here is some additional material from recent workshops on exhibition development:
Phases of exhibition development
Display outline (from a recent project)
Designing a panel using MS Publisher