An M&G NSW guide to selecting and using media players and projection systems in museum and gallery settings. Covers key considerations such as compatibility, file formats, and reliable playback to ensure seamless digital exhibition delivery.
Thinking about touring an exhibition? This M&G NSW resource addresses the basics to consider before your show goes on the road.
Australian artists and not-for-profit arts organizations can access discounted group and membership-based insurance packages through peak bodies like NAVA and Duck for Cover.
Needing to build a survey to get data from your touring exhibition venues for your funding acquittals or annual reports? This guide provides surveys in a range of accessible formats so participants can choose what works best for them.
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Touring exhibitions require the creation of contracts and agreements between the many parties involved. This non-exhaustive list put together by NETS Australia is designed to provide a general outline for specific circumstances for different agreements and contracts that might be required.
Australian artists and not-for-profit arts organizations can access discounted group and membership-based insurance packages through peak bodies like NAVA and Duck for Cover.
Needing to build a survey to get data from your touring exhibition venues for your funding acquittals or annual reports? This guide provides surveys in a range of accessible formats so participants can choose what works best for them.
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Touring exhibitions require the creation of contracts and agreements between the many parties involved. This non-exhaustive list put together by NETS Australia is designed to provide a general outline for specific circumstances for different agreements and contracts that might be required.
A consultation guide from NETS Australia to encourage First Nations-led cultural safety, collaboration, co-creation and employment connected to touring exhibitions.
This resource, developed by NETS Australia provides a list of prompts in preparation for working with project and community-focused spaces, such as volunteer-run organisations, cultural centres, libraries or Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) in an Australian context.
This resource developed by NETS Australia includes cultural safety and inclusion prompts for touring exhibitions. These prompts aim to create opportunities for the experiences, needs, ideas and requirements of people to be purposefully included in all the stages, materials and experiences tied to a touring project.
The legislation across States and Territories in Australia varies in regards to WWVP Registrations. There is no single “national check” for wwvp registrations. Check out this resource from NETS Australia to see what your state or territory legislation is.
An editable digital spreadsheet designed by Artback NT with a tour conversation tracker and yearly calendar. This is a useful tool to help track conversations across multiple venues at a high level before diving into the operational detail level.
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This resource by National Exhibitions Touring Support (NETS) Australia features sets of prompts to challenge curators and creatives to break down their thematic concepts and creative strategies, as well as adapt the accessibility, inclusion and First Nations considerations of their exhibitions for a touring context.
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This information sheet by Arts Law and M&G NSW is designed to give best practice guidance to museums and galleries when they exhibit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art as part of a touring exhibition.
Circulate is a free digital tool that allows you to work out measurements of greenhouse gas emissions for productions, events and creative business operations. Developed by ARUP a global consultancy with extensive technical and advisory expertise, guiding planning and designing the future of the built environment.
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If you are staging or participating in an event where you need to bring equipment to Australia on a temporary basis, then you need to organise clearance with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Department of Home Affairs.
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Wanting to build a budget for your touring exhibition but not sure where to start? NETS Australia have developed a handy budget template to get you started as well as a pre-filled example sheet as guides to building in the different financial elements for a touring exhibition.
Accessible Arts have developed a collection of practical checklists for arts, culture and screen organisations to assist in improving access and developing audiences. This attached resource checklist is for venues to improve accessible signage and communications.
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Laws and regulations vary from state to state, while different by-laws may apply in different local government jurisdictions. For the gallery and museum context, M&G NSW have listed some of the areas of activity that might have legal implications in this handy resource page.
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This practical guide, developed by Sabrina Roesner with support from Regional and Public Galleries NSW, aims to assist organisations in reducing their carbon footprint and to inspire, educate and collaborate with their audiences and communities on solutions for a more environmentally sustainable future.
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Condition reporting is an essential tool for managing works on tour. This template developed by NETS Australia allows a consistent framework to create a thorough and accurate report for each artwork.
A handy template designed by NETS Australia to assist venues in reporting and documenting any damage or change has occurred to an artwork or object while it has been on tour.
Touring an exhibition can provide important opportunities, exposure, experiences and rewards. This worksheet has been designed to help individuals and organisations consider the benefits of touring their exhibition and to then generate an impact statement ready to present to councils or organisational leaders.
An M&G NSW guide to making museums and galleries physically, culturally, socially, intellectually, attitudinally and financially accessible.
This guide created by M&G NSW outlines the equipment and vocabulary commonly used when creating condition reports.
There are several different kinds of condition reports and many sorts of condition reporting forms. This guide outlines the essentials of creating a thorough and accurate report.
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Learn how to identify damage and deterioration by downloading the images and descriptions in the AICCM Visual glossary when condition reporting works.
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Publicity and PR is all about building a positive profile, raising awareness and – with regards to the museums and galleries sector – attracting visitors. Developed as part of M&G NSW’s Engaging Art initiative.
A Welcome to Country is normally performed by an Elder of the local Aboriginal language group. An Acknowledgment of Country can be performed in the absence of an Aboriginal representative and here are some easy-to-understand guidelines and links to assist you.
The Australian Curriculum sets out the essential knowledge, understanding and skills students need to learn, and the quality of learning that is expected of the students as they progress through the first 11 years of schooling.
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This NAVA Toolkit offers ‘How to’ Educator and Classroom Guides for teaching and applying the Code of Practice in the classroom, with content and learning outcomes linked to curriculums and syllabuses for all Australian states and territories.
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Wondering what you need to include in an installation manual for a touring exhibition? In this handy document developed by NETS Australia are guidelines to get you started around the unpacking, installation, and repacking instructions for a touring exhibition.
This information guide and checklist by NETS Australia provides considerations and possible inclusions to help when communicating with cratemakers to provide quotes for your touring exhibitions or travelling artworks.
Looking for contract templates for different aspects of your touring project? Arts Law’s contract templates help artists and businesses build good legal contracts so everyone is on the same page. Each contract template includes a How to Guide and has example clauses you can edit to suit your situation.
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This resource from The Exhibitions Group (UK) looks at what areas to consider when weighing up the most sustainable and economically advantageous approach before, during and after touring an exhibition.
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This suppliers list by the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) is to assist public galleries across Victoria source suitable equipment, materials and services for their gallery operations.
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This M&G NSW list aims to assist museums and galleries in New South Wales in sourcing services, materials and equipment.
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Do you need to find a consultant or supplier in Queensland? Search the M&G QLD register by skills/services or keyword or add your service to their list.
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There are restrictions on what you can take as you cross state and quarantine borders within Australia. This link will help you to understand rules about moving these items and help to minimise the risk to Australia’s unique environments and valuable agricultural markets.
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A checklist with considerations and possible inclusions to help with contacting artwork freight carriers to provide quotes. A template for a multi-venue tour quote is included at the end of this NETS Australia resource.
Ever wondered what things you need to keep track of when working on a tour across multiple venues? This handy Itinerary Tracker worksheet by NETS Australia gives you a number of starting points for consideration for your venues on a tour.
The Exhibitions Environments Checklist, developed by Accessible Arts is part of a collection of practical checklists for arts, culture and screen organisations to assist in improving access and developing audiences.
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Showing and touring work connects artists with communities and audiences, enhances gallery programming and amplifies and celebrates investments in artists’ work. Part of NAVA's Code of Practice resource.
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Use The Exhibitions Group (UK) interactive Decision tree to build your own touring strategy. Define your aims and objectives, consider the resources you have or need, take into account sector influencing factors, decide on your economic and production models for touring to create a strategy for your touring exhibition or program.
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The True Tracks® method, developed by Dr Terri Janke and company, is a unique professional development workshop to enhance Indigenous engagement and increase understanding of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), or Indigenous cultural heritage.
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An M&G NSW guide to selecting and using media players and projection systems in museum and gallery settings. Covers key considerations such as compatibility, file formats, and reliable playback to ensure seamless digital exhibition delivery.
Research project Precarious Movements is a free resource focusing on choreographic work in the context of museums, addressing how we can better serve artists in this context. The prompts and suggestions in this resource can also be applied to the broader arts community and practices.
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Not sure where to start with exhibition labels? Here’s a guide on what to include, how to order the information and how to strategically place labels in exhibitions.
Thinking about touring an exhibition? This M&G NSW resource addresses the basics to consider before your show goes on the road.
Not sure how to start adopting more sustainable practices when working on exhibitions? For many of us, especially when working in collaboration with stakeholders on a complex touring exhibition it can feel daunting, so Art Fund (UK) have created a new toolkit to help you providing guidance on reducing environmental impact and embedding sustainability across touring exhibitions.
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Create NSW has developed the Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Protocols resources to give guidance and direction to the broader sector in the right way to work and do business with Aboriginal people and communities.
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Developed by The Exhibitions Group (UK) their Exhibition Makers’ Toolkit is the sector’s online guide to exhibition making. Whether you’re creating, organising or managing temporary or touring exhibitions, or organising and managing object loans, each chapter provides practical and professional advice, with links to relevant case studies.
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What can you do to ensure accessibility for your audiences? Digital accessibility is the process of making digital products accessible to all audiences, including people who are blind or have low vision. Guide Dogs ACT/ NSW have put together this info page to get you started.
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The Model Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act is designed to provide a balanced, nationally consistent framework to protect workers and workplaces from harm. Developed by Safe Work Australia, its primary goal is to harmonize health and safety laws across all Australian jurisdictions.
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The Collections Law & Ethics publication addresses the key legal and ethical issues that arise in public museums, galleries, libraries and archives in Australia and New Zealand, distilling the authors' expertise into a comprehensive, practical text.
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Looking for guidance on how to embed environmental sustainability in your public programmes? From finding language that resonates with local audiences, to thinking about the life cycle of materials and connecting with local partners - this Art Fund toolkit will equip your museum or gallery with useful skills, knowledge and resources so that you are able to initiate and facilitate climate conversations, making this global issue locally tangible.
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Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021–2031 is the Australian Government’s plan to make life better for people with disability.
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Wondering where to start with planning for cashflow and expenditure? This handy worksheet and financial planning guide from The Exhibitions Group (UK) will assist with budgeting and financial planning two things that are key to the success of a touring exhibition, particularly because expenditure and income are likely to straddle a number of financial years.
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Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) enable organisations to sustainably and strategically take meaningful action to advance reconciliation. Based around the core pillars of relationships, respect and opportunities, RAPs provide tangible and substantive benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, increasing economic equity and supporting First Nations self-determination.
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The Australian Government is committed to equity and equitable access to the arts for artists, screen practitioners, arts workers and audiences with disability. The Plan is a call for representation and disability equity to be championed across Government and the wider arts, screen and cultural sectors, and will help deliver outcomes under Australia’s Disability Strategy.
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A practical resource from The Exhibitions Group (UK), created in collaboration with the Design Museum and Art Fund, to help guide you through how to reduce the environmental impact of exhibitions, loans and tours. While initially tailored to UK organisations involved in touring exhibitions, the guidance can be adapted for a range of project types.
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Developed by AIATSIS, Core is an innovative online course developed to strengthen your organisation’s cultural capability. It's designed to be informative, interactive and to create a greater awareness of the vast history and cultural heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Access free curriculum and teaching resources developed by AIATSIS that are aligned to Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum and are centered around cultural safety.
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The 2022 Countess Report is the third comprehensive report on gender representation in the Australian art sector. The report analyses gallery and museum exhibition data as well as data on artist education, prizes, funding, organisational governance, collection acquisitions, and commercial gallery representation from across Australia in the calendar year of 2022.
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Two cultural mediation resource worksheets for in-gallery use by staff and volunteers to help public facing teams develop their own understanding of exhibitions and build confidence talking to visitors about art.
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NETS Victoria’s publication of A Guide for Venues: Engaging with First Nations Curators, Artists and Audiences is designed for venues working with NETS Victoria to host exhibitions, in particular, exhibitions that include the work of First Nations artists. However the Guide is a ready resource to assist galleries generally in culturally sound engagement and to strive for best sector practice in the spirit of reconciliation.
The Relationship is the Project is a book of provocations, tools and practical tips for those who are currently working or are interested in working with communities. It is intended to be a solid starting point for organisations, project managers, artists, cultural workers and other community-engaged practitioners who want to bring new perspectives and ideas to their work.
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Creativity is Mistakes is a collaborative project between disabled artists and visual arts organisations in Wales. The project centres the voices, talents and lived experiences of disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent visual artists in developing innovative models for collective access in the visual arts.
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Accidents can happen when you operate a business or conduct your creative activity. It is important you understand your ‘liability’ or legal responsibility to compensate for damage or injury to people and property. This information sheet by Arts Law explains liability, risk management and insurance.
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The AICCM Environmental Guidelines for cultural heritage collections provide temperature and relative humidity ranges for humid and temperate climate types and encourage the setting of temperature and relative humidity parameters that respond to a range of factors including local climate conditions.
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The Federal Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) provides protection for everyone in Australia against discrimination based on disability. It also aims to promote equal opportunity and access for people with disability.
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This Renconcilliation Australia RAP Action Plan is a resource that promotes practices around using respectful and inclusive language and terminology as an essential component of reconciliation.
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This resource, prepared by M&G NSW and NETS Victoria, has been produced to assist you in developing a risk management strategy for exhibitions that may contain content that could be perceived to be controversial, provocative or have the potential to offend certain members of your community, audience or stakeholder groups.
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Arts Law has put together answers to some of the most common questions they’ve received from artists and arts organisations about showing works online and digitising collections.
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NETS Victoria collaborated with the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) to present the 2020 Curatorial Intensive, a free series of one-hour webinars. The program provided a platform for curators, artists and writers to share their experiences and knowledge with one another through a live Q+A forum.
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The Green Touring Initiative was started in 2020 by Arts on Tour with the aim of providing tools and strategies for Australian artists and arts organisations to help reduce emissions in the making and touring of work, so that the positive impacts of touring activity at a community level don’t cost the planet.
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A set of guidelines and tools produced by Regional Arts Australia to assist those working in regional communities achieve a more rewarding level of involvement in cultural activities.
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An offset unit, also referred to as a carbon credit, is a financial product which is traded and sold on the carbon market. Offset units are issued to individuals or businesses who run eligible carbon abatement projects under an offset scheme. Read more about this on the Climate Active website, an Australian Government program designed to empower Australians to take climate action, now and for the future
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A non-exhaustive overview of suggested best practice for art spaces, ranging from artist run initiatives to larger institutes, when working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
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Creative Australia’s Protocols for using First Nations Intellectual and Cultural Property in the Arts provide a pathway for collaborations and creation of new Indigenous work, educating readers and users on Indigenous Australian cultural heritage and encouraging meaningful collaborations with First Nations artists and creators.
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AMaGA commissioned Terri Janke and Company, Lawyers and Consultants, to undertake a research and consultation project to examine how museums and galleries can further improve Indigenous representation and participation across all areas.
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The AMaGA Indigenous Roadmap Project is a Catalyst-funded initiative to facilitate discussion on how best to advance the participation and representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in museums and galleries.
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As part of the Working Internationally Regional Project (WIRP) and the Supporting International Engagement Project, ICOM UK and the British Council commissioned and developed a template international touring exhibitions agreement after research showed that one of the key issues for museums undertaking international touring exhibitions is the contractual aspect. This template agreement with guidance notes was produced in response to this demand.
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Public programs are a core way that galleries and museums engage with audiences and attract new visitors. This guide covers all aspects of designing public programs that are meaningful cultural experiences.
Art? Art! Art… An Audience Development Handbook for Public Art Galleries and Museums is a practical guide designed for visual arts professionals in regional Australia providing actionable strategies to expand viewers' experiences and confidence in engaging with contemporary art.
Risk Management planning helps you detail and mitigate any potential risks that might arise through the development and implementation of a project/event or the running of an organisation. Use this handy fact sheet designed by NAVA to assist with and guide your planning processes.
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All exhibitions are now likely to involve copyright and reproduction in some way, but what are the guidelines, rules and agreements to be aware of? It does not necessarily confer that the owner of an object or artwork, be that a museum or gallery or private individual, is the copyright holder. This handy guide by The Exhibitions Group (UK) centres around assisting with understanding copyright, reproduction, loan agreements and other kinds of intellectual property (‘IP’) that might be required.
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Producing touring exhibitions can be time consuming and expensive. This resource from The Exhibitions Group (UK) provides lots of practical points and professional advice to get you started developing your touring exhibition.
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The Exhibitions Group (UK) resource that sets out a series of checklists to assist with developing the viability of your tour from the initial stages of exhibition planning.
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Thinking about loaning works for a touring exhibition but don’t know where to start? This handy guide from The Exhibitions Group (UK) examines how borrowing from museums, galleries and arts organisations can be very different from borrowing from private lenders, artists and dealers.
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NAVA's Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design covers good practice approaches to working relationships, ethical standards for access and inclusion, and payment rates for artists and arts workers.
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An exhibition toolkit developed by 2010 Legacies Now taking you through the entire curatorial process from research to installation.
Developed by the United Nations, the Declaration is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples, establishing a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the Indigenous peoples of the world.
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Provides practical advice and guidance designed to help museums, galleries and custodians of historical collections care for their heritage. reCollections explains how to apply preventative conservation techniques to cultural objects and collections.