Professional Development

Training

We offer unique guided tours, talks by specialists, ‘on demand’ training and other opportunities to do with museums and museum practice.

Our program is for museum professionals, volunteers and others with an interest in museums.

Contact Lyndel Wischer about training.

‘On Demand’ Training

We meet the needs of small organisations by providing workshops ‘on demand’. These provide an introduction to museum practices and issues. They’re also a way to refresh or update knowledge acquired from prior training and experience.

Choose from a range of topics:

business planning
care of photographs and negatives
caring for textiles
caring for your collections
cataloguing
conservation planning
disaster planning
exhibition design – art
exhibition design – social history exhibitions
exhibitions: from concept development to delivery
grant writing
marketing
significance assessment
storage, handling and movement of objects
writing labels

‘On demand’ training is available to members (at discounted rates) and non-members. This service can be provided in Victoria’s regional centres and metropolitan Melbourne.

Contact Lyndel Wischer to discuss your museum or network’s training needs.

Community Collections Training

We present practical workshops at venues across Victoria about:

cataloguing
collection management
exhibition design
interpretation
museum standards
on-line exhibitions
significance

These workshops support museums in achieving museum standards with information on current issues and practices.

They are free for people who work with community collections, thanks to Heritage Victoria and the state government’s strategy Victoria’s Heritage: Strengthening our communities.

Contact Euan McGillivray about Community Collections Training.

Exhibition Services (previously known as RETI)

Exhibition Services supports Victorian museums to develop and improve their exhibitions and displays through training and small grants.

Exhibition Services assists museums with basic exhibition, programming and display challenges and encourages museums with limited resources to tour their collections or redevelop an existing exhibition for touring / enhance a touring exhibition.

Exhibition Services provides workshops and seminars on exhibition preparation and display, and touring.

These are free for Exhibition Services (and 2009 RETI) Grant Recipients and open to others.

Museums Australia (Victoria) manages Exhibition Services with funds received from the Community Support Fund through Arts Victoria.

Contact Georgia Rouette about Exhibition Services.