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Museum Studies: Issues & trends

Accessibility

Smithsonian guidelines for accessible exhibition design
Accessibility in museums & libraries (IMLS)
Museums accessibility research
Accessibility in museums: Creating a barrier-free cultural landscape (Museums + Heritage Advisor's case studies)
ADA resources for museums, arts, and cultural institutions
Accessible practices (ASTC)
Design for accessibility: A cultural administrator's handbook [NEA, 2005]
Meet Me: the MoMA Alzheimer's project
Making Ontario accessible (Ministry of Community & Social Services, ON)
Disability: A toolkit for museums working towards inclusivity (NEMO)

Endangered Cultural Heritage

ICOMOS guidance on post-trauma recovery and reconstruction for World Heritage Cultural Properties
From memory to action: A toolkit for memorialization in post-conflict societies (International Coalition for Sites of Conscience)
Endangered cultural heritage: Emergency evacuation of cultural heritage (UNESCO, ICCROM)
Saving our vanishing heritage: Safeguarding endangered cultural heritage sites in the developing world (Global Heritage Foundation)
World heritage in danger (UNESCO)
Abu Dhabi Declaration (2016)
Protocols for safe havens for works of cultural significance from countries in crisis (AAMD)
A blueshield for the protection of our endangered cultural heritage (IFLA-PAC)

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Intangible cultural heritage (UNESCO)
Intangible cultural heritage and sustainability (UNESCO)
Inventories: Identifying for safeguarding (UNESCO)
Intangible cultural heritage resources (Memorial University, Newfoundland)
Issues in intangible cultural heritage (CLIR report, 2004)

Source Communities

Working with source communities (Pitt Rivers Museum podcast)
Guidelines for management of culturally sensitive materials (Museum of Anthropology, UBC)
Cultural property advice (Collections Trust, UK)
Promoting people-centred approaches to conservation (ICCROM)

Social Justice

Advocacy

Advocacy resources (AAM)
Sample economic impact statements (AAM)
Advocacy (Museums Association, subscription required)
Small museum advocacy 101 (Small Museums Association)
Everyday museum advocacy (AASLH free webinar)

Ethics

Institute of Museum Ethics
Code of ethics for museums (ICOM)
Code of ethics for curators (AAM)
Developing an institutional code of ethics (AAM)
Museum ethics (CMA)
Ethics, standards, and best practices (AAM)
Guidance notes on ethical approaches in museum ethnography (MEG)
Ethical research in informal learning environments (VSA)
Ethics and intangible cultural heritage (UNESCO)
International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property (UNESCO)

Visitor Experience

Creative Trust toolkit on building audience engagement | Addendum 1 | Addendum 2 (Toronto Arts Council)
What is engagement, and when is it meaningful? (Museum Questions blog)
Successful visitor experience (AIM, UK)
User-focused experience (Collections Trust, UK)