Collections Care and Management Programme 2023

This series of workshops, developed collaboratively by MDY, MDNW and MDNE, have been designed to support you and other staff in your museum to achieve, maintain and improve Collections Care and Management practices and to meet Museum Accreditation requirements detailed in Section 2 of the ACE managed Museum Accreditation Standard.

The programme will begin with an online session followed by a series of in-person workshops.  These will be held at venues in the North-West, North-East and Yorkshire and you will be able to choose where to attend.  There are three in-person sessions in the North-West and Yorkshire, with Collections Care Part 1 and Part 2 combined into one session in the North-East.  The programme ends with another online session exploring the future of collections management.

We hope that you will choose to attend all 5 of the sessions in this programme, but this is not compulsory.

Workshop 1:  Policies, Plans and Procedures

This session will be delivered online via Zoom on 31 August 2023, 10.30am to 12.30pm: an overview of policies, plans and procedures.

For more information and to book visit Policies, Plans and Procedures

Workshop 2: Collection Care Part 1

Choose an in-person session on either 13 September, 20 September or 24 October: an introduction to the museum environment; pest monitoring and control measures with a practical housekeeping session.

For more information and to book visit Collections Care Part 1

Workshop 3: Collections Care Part 2

Choose an in-person workshop on either 3, 10 or 24 October: environmental monitoring; environmental control methods; creating microclimates with a practical session.

For more information and to book visit Collections Care Part 2

Workshop 4: Labelling and Marking

Choose an in-person workshop on either 15, 21 or 22 November: an overview of Spectrum 5.0 primary procedure of labelling and marking; a chance to review your own procedures; a practical session of labelling and marking objects.

For more information and to book visit Labelling and Marking

Workshop 5: Reducing energy consumption in the care of collections

This session will be delivered online via Zoom on 12 December 2023, 10am to 12.30pm: an overview of how energy reduction can be achieved in environmental control, exhibitions and collections care.

For more information and to book visit Reducing Energy Consumption