Your Museum

Did you know that the Bengali word for museum is “jadughor”, meaning magic room. Isn’t that a wonderful thought? We all work in magic rooms.

However, those magic rooms can be beasts to manage.

2 wooden shelves with small brown boxes labelled as Coffin Screws and Nickel Plated Handles. Image taken at the Coffin Works in Birmingham.
Image taken at the Coffin Works, Birmingham

From day to day operations to policy writing, from safeguarding to volunteer recruitment, from collections care to marketing, from interpretation to visitor services, museum management is all encompassing. Fascinating but it can be overwhelming!

Don’t be overwhelmed. I can help guide you through the everyday, the occasional and the unusual aspects of this role, helping you make the most of it and your museum.

Services include:

  • Fundraising – grants, trusts, crowd funding, memberships…
  • Audience Development Plans
  • Museum MOT – a review of where you are and where you want to be
  • Policy Prescriptions
  • Policy templates and guidance
  • The trick to effective meetings
  • Visitor services and front of house
  • Community consultations
  • Visitor engagement
  • Accreditation