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Advice and Training

Advice  Assistance  Training

The Community History Unit offers the following services:

For museums and historical societies:

• Advice on attaining registration and accreditation status under the Museums Accreditation and Grants Program
• Referral to designers, museum consultants, professional historians and editors
• Training workshops, including:
• Museum strategic planning, development and review
• Organising your museum: basic museum practices
• Collections management, including

• Developing and implementing policies and procedures on donations, disposal, reproduction and loans

• Cataloguing
• Computer databases in museums (non-technical)
• Storage and handling of collections
• Assessing the Significance of your collection
• Disaster Preparedness and Identifying Risks
• Preventive conservation in museums

• Exhibitions and public programs, including

• How to do history research
• Writing and editing for displays
• Using photographs and objects in displays
• Using costume and textiles in displays
• Designing and installing exhibitions
• Education Programs
• Community access, ownership and involvement
• Volunteers, training them and keeping them
• Marketing, sponsorship and promoting your museum

For individual authors, historians, researchers, museums, historical societies and the general public:

• Advice and assistance on historical research, including guides to sources
• Advice and assistance on writing history and oral history projects
• Advice and assistance on photo searches
• Access to History Resource Centre and Glass Negatives Collection
• Advice on the preservation of historical items
• Advice on finding the right ‘home’ for historical treasures