Resource Category: Interpretation and Engagement

Money Matters – a toolkit for teachers

A creative teaching and learning resource commissioned by the Harris Museum’s Money Matters project and Curious Minds.

Age Friendly Museums Checklist 2019

As a legacy of the MDNW Age Friendly Accessibility Programme 2018-2019, an Age Friendly Museums’ toolkit was developed aiming to help museums think about their offer to older people. This is a checklist only version with additional functionality so it can be completed electronically.

Age-Friendly Museums 2019

As a legacy of the MDNW Age Friendly Accessibility Programme 2018-2019, an Age Friendly Museums’ toolkit was produced that aims to help museums think about their offer to older people. It comprises the Age-Friendly Standards self-assessment checklist from the Family Arts Campaign, with some modifications to make it more bespoke to the museum sector.  A separate checklist only tool with additional functionality is also available.

Knowing Your Audiences

This publication provides practical information on how to collect audience data and how to interpret it. It aims to explore how organisations can gain insight into their audiences, actual and potential, physical and virtual, and how this understanding can be applied to engage new audiences and ensure they have the best possible experience.

A practical guide for text interpretation 2017

Leeds Museums and Galleries’ in house style and tone guide for text interpretation, which covers both writing text and the design factors that can make the text more accessible.

How To…build, extend and develop supporter engagement

This paper looks at different types of supporters and gives a guide as to how to develop a supporter network through building, extending, and developing engagement.

10 Top Tips for Interpretation 2011

A guide to museum interpretation for everyone working on displays, learning resources or other interpretive materials.

Share Academy

Share Academy is a partnership project between University of the Arts London (UAL), University College London (UCL) and the London Museums Group that focuses on the collaboration between Higher Education and museums. This is a file of useful documents from this project.