The Northern Ireland Museums Council (NIMC) has launched a toolkit with advice and guidance for museums that want to collaborate with creative businesses.
The toolkit outlines the many benefits of working with the creative industries, offers some models for collaboration, and lists contacts and sources of further information. It also lists sources of funding, offers advice on copyright issues, and gives tips on marketing and promotion.
The NIMC's director, Chris Bailey, said: “Our toolkit will make it easier for museums and creative businesses to collaborate successfully. There are huge benefits to such partnerships, and both sectors see distinct economic value in working together.
“On the one hand museum objects are being used as an unparalleled source of inspiration for our artists, designers and those working with digital media.
“And on the other hand, we see museums drawing on local, cutting-edge creative businesses to develop novel ways in which people can engage with their collections.”
The toolkit was funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Creative Industries Innovation Fund, which has provided seed funding to creative businesses and sectoral development bodies to enable the development of new products and services. So far the fund has supported 301 projects with £5.1m of investment.
Links
Museums and creative industries toolkit
Lucy Worsley on museums and television
Museum Practice: Film locations
The toolkit outlines the many benefits of working with the creative industries, offers some models for collaboration, and lists contacts and sources of further information. It also lists sources of funding, offers advice on copyright issues, and gives tips on marketing and promotion.
The NIMC's director, Chris Bailey, said: “Our toolkit will make it easier for museums and creative businesses to collaborate successfully. There are huge benefits to such partnerships, and both sectors see distinct economic value in working together.
“On the one hand museum objects are being used as an unparalleled source of inspiration for our artists, designers and those working with digital media.
“And on the other hand, we see museums drawing on local, cutting-edge creative businesses to develop novel ways in which people can engage with their collections.”
The toolkit was funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Creative Industries Innovation Fund, which has provided seed funding to creative businesses and sectoral development bodies to enable the development of new products and services. So far the fund has supported 301 projects with £5.1m of investment.
Links
Museums and creative industries toolkit
Lucy Worsley on museums and television
Museum Practice: Film locations
