We work with museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses to improve collections care practices, emergency preparedness, risk management for collections, and the delivery of collections care projects.
We combine advisory work, training, facilitated exercises, and project involvement grounded in day-to-day collections care work.
We support practical and sustainable decision-making where priorities compete and resources are limited.
Our approach is collaborative, realistic, and grounded in the realities of heritage work.
Emergency Preparedness for Collections
We help museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses strengthen emergency preparedness for heritage collections.
This may include creating emergency plans, preparedness reviews, facilitating table-top exercises, recovery planning, practical preparedness and salvage training
We also support reviewing existing emergency plans, prioritising collections for emergency response and recovery, identifying procedural or policy gaps, and integrating emergency collection procedures with wider business continuity planning.
Risk Management and Prioritisation in Collections Care
Risk management in collections care often involves difficult decisions where resources, priorities, and long-term collection needs must be balanced realistically.
We work with museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses to identify, assess, and prioritise risks to collections.
This may include identifying and assessing risks, prioritising risks to collections, supporting decision-making where resources are limited, and helping make more realistic decisions about collections care priorities over time.
Our involvement may include risk management training, including the ABC methodology, risk reviews, prioritisation workshops, facilitated exercises, and practical approaches to comparing collection risks with wider organisational priorities and constraints.
This may also include preparing for funding applications, strategic planning, or future collections care improvements, where clear prioritisation, policy gaps, and decisions about resources, risks, and collections care priorities need to be identified and communicated.
Collections Care Projects
We work with museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses on projects involving movable heritage collections. This may include refurbishments, storage developments, collection relocations, rehousing programmes and capital works.
Our involvement may include clarifying project scope, responsibilities, sequencing, scheduling, budgeting, project risks, and practical decision-making as projects develop.
We also work with collections care projects that have become difficult to navigate due to changing scope, unclear responsibilities, coordination challenges, competing priorities, or increasing operational complexity.
Organisational Training and Capability Development
We design and deliver organisational training and capability development for museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses working with heritage collections.
Topics include emergency preparedness for collections, risk management and prioritisation in collections care, the ABC risk management methodology, project planning and decision-making and practical approaches to managing collections under operational and resource constraints.
Training is practical, tailored to organisational needs, and draws on real collections care projects, case studies, and exercises to help participants develop practical understanding, confidence, and useful approaches that can be applied within their own work.
Contact
For enquiries, please contact Andor Vince at andor@heritagecollectioncare.com