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.
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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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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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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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.
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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.