About the course
This online learning course is delivered by Culture24.
It runs between November 2022 and April 2023 for up to 3 members of staff from 8 museums across the east and south east of England.
The course will help you kickstart a process of positive digital change within your museum.
This online course comprises of:
- 3 online modules, to be worked through between Nov 2022 and April 2023
- 3 virtual meet ups with the wider group, to discuss progress and experiences
- 1 virtual meet-up to begin the programme, alongside an in-person visit to each participating museum from one of the programme team
- 1 in-person/virtual meet-up to close the programme
- 3 scheduled support sessions with your mentors, one per module
- An online community space - a place to access content and connect with people in other museums also doing the course
What will you get out of the course?
By the end of the course, you will have developed a framework to help direct and shape your museum’s digital transformation within your particular context.
Your starting point might be a new digital policy, a social media strategy, a digital skills audit, or a digital maturity assessment - whatever it is, it will be relevant and specific to you and your organisation’s needs.
Digital transformation is an ongoing process and there are several resources that you will receive as part of the programme, which will help you to maintain momentum once you are finished. These include:
- Framings to understand your digital activities and digital skills
- Framings to understand your approach to digital and your digital maturity
- Templates for conducting digital skills audits
- Templates for conducting online content audits
- Templates for conducting digital experiments
- Activities to help embed digital change and transformation within your museum, assess your digital activities and your digital maturity
- A community of practice built through the joint experience
A £1000 grant will be offered to south east museums* that complete the course to take forward action/s that result from the learning journey. The grant will be issued in 2023/24.
*we can only issue grants to museums meeting our funding criteria (non-national; non-NPO; accredited or formally WTA).
Specific dates for the programme
We can only accept applicants who can commit to attending every session as they form an integral part of the programme:
- Intro workshop: Friday 25 November 2022, 10am-1pm (3hrs)
- Online meet-up #1: Tuesday 13 December, 2-4pm (2hrs)
- Online meet-up #2: Thursday 09 February 2023, 10am-12pm (2hrs)
- Online meet-up #3: Tuesday 28 March 2023, 2-4pm (2hrs)
- Wrap-up workshop: late April 2023 date and time TBC
What is the time commitment?
The course starts in November 2022 and ends in April 2023.
The kick-off and wrap-up meetings are each 3 hours long.
The three modules vary in length, and you’ll be given at least six weeks to work through each module independently, at your own pace. We estimate it will take you between 4 and 8 hours to complete each one. When you’re ready, you book in a one-hour Zoom support session with your mentor to discuss ideas and plans arising from each module, so three in all.
The three Zoom meet ups with the wider group are each 2 hours long and are an integral part of the course - they are where you get to learn from each other’s experiences and approaches.
You will be able to dip in and out of the online community space to connect with other people as much as you like - the more you engage, the more you will gain from the course.
About Culture24
Culture24 is an independent charity that helps arts and heritage people drive positive change inside their organisations, building resilience and capacity so they can respond to the challenges and opportunities today and to come. You can find out more about Culture24, who we are and what we do on our website: https://www.culture24.org.uk/
Who can apply?
- Non-national, non-NPO museums located in the south east that are enrolled in the Museum Accreditation Scheme.
- We are looking to source four museums with a fair distribution across the south east region.
How to apply
Please speak with your local Museum Development Officer in the first instance and then complete the Expression of Interest by Friday 11 November (5pm).
We will contact applicants regarding the outcome of their application by Friday 18 November.
Participating museums will asked to complete a ‘final report’ within 12 months of receiving the grant funding.
This project supports the Dynamism investment principle in the Arts Council’s Let’s Create strategy.