We work with museums, libraries, archives, and historic houses to strengthen collections care, emergency preparedness, risk management, and the delivery of collections care projects.
We support practical and sustainable decision-making where priorities compete, resources are limited, and heritage collections face complex challenges.
Our work combines advisory support, training, facilitated exercises, and practical project involvement grounded in day-to-day collections care practice.
Our approach is collaborative, practical, and grounded in the realities of collections care work.
Collections Care Projects
We support projects involving movable heritage collections, including refurbishments, storage developments, collection relocations, rehousing programmes, and capital works.
Our involvement may include project planning, scope development, responsibilities, sequencing, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and practical decision-making throughout project delivery.
We also assist with projects that have become difficult to navigate due to changing scope, unclear responsibilities, coordination challenges, competing priorities, or increasing operational complexity.
Emergency Preparedness for Collections
We help organisations strengthen preparedness for emergencies affecting heritage collections.
This may include developing emergency plans, preparedness reviews, table-top exercises, recovery planning, and practical preparedness and salvage training.
We also support the review of existing plans, prioritisation of collections for response and recovery, identification of procedural or policy gaps, and integration of collections emergency procedures with wider business continuity planning.
Risk Management and Prioritisation in Collections Care
We help organisations identify, assess, and prioritise risks to heritage collections, supporting informed decision-making where resources are limited and competing needs must be weighed over time.
Our work may include risk management training, including the ABC methodology, risk reviews, prioritisation workshops, facilitated exercises, and practical approaches to comparing collection risks alongside organisational priorities and constraints.
We also support funding applications, strategic planning, and future collections care improvements by helping organisations identify and communicate priorities, resource requirements, policy gaps, and areas of risk.
Training and Capability Development
We design and deliver training programmes in collections care.
Topics include project management in collections care, emergency management and preparedness, risk management and prioritisation, the ABC risk management methodology, and practical approaches to managing collections under operational and resource constraints.
Training is tailored to organisational needs and draws on real projects, case studies, and facilitated exercises to build practical understanding, confidence, and capability that can be applied directly within the workplace.
Contact
If you would like to discuss a project, training programme, or advisory support, please contact Andor Vince at andor@heritagecollectioncare.com