Museums and Creative Industries Toolkit

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Intended Audience

Museums, cultural sector and creative industries.

Northern Ireland Museums Council

2014

“Museums and creative businesses are increasingly working together in Northern Ireland today, as the creative industries grow and museums get more ambitious.

Museums are commissioning artists and makers to help reinterpret their collection and using digital media developers to produce audio guides and apps.

Meanwhile, creative businesses are buying services from museums: film companies are using museums as locations and designers are drawing on museum collections for inspiration.

And creative businesses and museums are collaborating, for example using museums as venues for performances or jointly developing new products.

But there is more that could be done. We know that museums want to commission more projects from the creative industries to bring their collections to life, and we know that more creative businesses would like to be able to draw on the unique resources that museums have to offer. NIMC wants to help these relationships to grow and prosper.

We have developed a series of ‘how-to’ guidance sheets to help museums and creative businesses work together successfully. From developing ideas, through to finding partners and building relationships, to overcoming practical and contractual hurdles, these guidance sheets will make it easier for museums and creative businesses to work together.”

The benefits of museums working with the creative industries are identified as:

Increasing use of museum collections
Increasing use of the building
Increasing use of museum expertise
Reaching new audiences
Raising the profile of the museum
Generating income

(from Guidance note 2)

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The focus of the resource is around SDG 4.4 (training), and targets in SDG 8 around financial growth/generating income (SDG 8.1); productivity through diversification and innovation (SDG 8.2) and policies for job creation and enterprise (SDG 8.3). Supporting and developing industries that contribute to sustainability is essential for achieving the SDGs (SDG 9.2), and is part of sustainable tourism (SDG 8.9). Partnerships with the creative industries can help increase use of museum collections and make greater use of museum expertise (SDG 8.2), reach new audiences (SDGs 1.4 and 10.2), raise the profile of the museum (SDG 16.10), and support public-private partnerships (SDG 17.17).

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SDG 1.4: Equal Rights to Ownership, Basic Services, Technology and Economic Resources
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers and proportions of people from particular groups using collections in comparison with demographics in broader society.
Numbers of people accessing collections.
Number of targeted programmes that aim to enhance access to collections by disadvantaged groups.
Sustainable tourism that enhances local communities’ access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property (including cultural and natural heritage), as well as to technology and markets.
Involvement of people from disadvantaged groups in decision-making activities and processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
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SDG 4.4: Increase the Number of People with Relevant Skills for Financial Success
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of young people and adults in skills-development activities and programmes drawing on collections, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Increase in number of young people and adults in such programmes.
Number and proportion of staff who have received training in the last year, to better support their contribution to the SDGs.
Programs and processes in place to ensure the availability of a skilled workforce.
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SDG 8.1: Sustainable Economic Growth
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Economic value added to the local economy.
Number of jobs created, notably for marginalized and under-represented groups.
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SDG 8.2: Diversify, Innovate and Upgrade for Economic Productivity
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of innovation-driven projects that aim to enhance or add to the range of activities drawing on collections.
Staff training initiatives aimed at innovation, skills for enterprise.
Number of public-facing activities that make use of new or emerging technologies, involving collections.
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SDG 8.3: Promote Policies to Support Job Creation and Growing Enterprises
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Development-oriented policies in place for the range of activities, or development-oriented considerations are included in other policies.
Number of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises supported.
Number and proportion of formalised arrangements with micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Total value of financial services or financial support provided to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises.
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SDG 8.9: Promote Beneficial and Sustainable Tourism
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of jobs created or supported that relate to sustainable tourism drawing on local products (e.g. craft producers).
Develop and implement plans to reduce and remove negative impacts of tourism.
Numbers of activities and/or products drawing on local culture.
Value to artisans and source communities of activities and products drawing on local culture.
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SDG 9.2: Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of products and services developed, either alone or in partnership, that contribute to the green economy in some way.
Number of jobs created, and working hours spent, that contribute to the green economy.
Number of partnerships that produce products and services that add value to the economy, and that have positive social and environmental impacts.
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SDG 10.2: Promote Universal Social Economic and Political Inclusion
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Collections development to ensure that collections effectively meet the needs of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Number and proportion of educational and participatory programmes that promote participation irrespective of social or other status.
Numbers and proportions of people making use of collections in relation to the demographic of the local population.
Numbers and proportions of people involved in focused programmes aimed at promoting social, economic and political inclusion.
Numbers and proportions of people from different demographic groups involved in decision-making processes relating to collections and collections-based institutions.
Number and types of partnerships that build relationships with marginalized groups, individuals and communities.
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SDG 16.10: Ensure Public Access to Information and Protect Fundamental Freedoms
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Adopt and implement constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to enhance public access to information relating to collections.
Plans in place, and plans implemented to support fundamental freedoms, in line with human rights, national and international agreements and legislation.
Plans and procedures in place for public access to information relating to the operation and management of collections-based institutions.
Complaint mechanism in place for public to use where public access to information and fundamental freedoms not supported or fulfilled.
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SDG 17.17: Encourage Effective Partnerships
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Amount of United States dollars committed to public-private and civil society partnerships.
Number and/or increase in number, and diversity of local, national and regional multi-stakeholder (public, public-private and civil society) partnerships that address the SDGs drawing on collections, or that otherwise involve collections-based organisations and institutions.
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