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.
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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This guide created by M&G NSW outlines the equipment and vocabulary commonly used when creating condition reports.
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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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