Guidance for reopening your museum
We’re hope these resources and links will help museums feel better prepared to reopen.
The Scottish Government guidance for reopening the museums, galleries and heritage is here.
We've developed some resources we hope will help museums feel better prepared to reopen:
- A template reopening action plan
- A template risk assessment for reopening
- A checklist for reopening - this includes pointers for some key issues that are being discussed within the sector, including:
- communicating with visitors about what to expect on site ie a video tour of the altered visitor experience. An excellent reopening video by Gairloch Museum is here.
- communicating expectations to your visitors ie around face coverings and hygiene
The We're Good To Go mark is a great way to let visitors know you've put plans in place to reopen safely - apply here.
Museums and galleries will be expected to gather visitor information as part of the Test & Protect scheme - find out more.
And further resources from elsewhere in the sector:
- There's a great blog on reopening here from Gairloch Museum.
- Find out more about Museums Galleries Scotland's marketing toolkit and campaign for reopening the sector.
- The Association of Independent Museum has created a great resource to go alongside the English guidance for museums reopening - find out more. This is already pretty applicable to Scotland, though it may get properly adapted in due course. This is the best and most digestable reopening guidance I've seen yet.
- Bletchley Park has produced a great risk assessment here
There’s a blog here about volunteers in museums – more resources to follow.
We’ve been involved in various discussions about responsibilities to paid staff. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to take some human resource advice. Here are some links:*
- It would be worth becoming a member of AIM to take advantage of their serivce
- RBS Mentor
- Federation of Small Businesses
There’s been an amount of chat about hand sanitiser units. At either end of the scale there’s this and this.*
We will update these resources and will add more as we get feedback and as the sector continues to plan to reopen. Please get in touch if you have something to add!
*Note: External links published here does not indicate our endorsement.