Kia Ora / Greetings
Before Christmas I posted a request for information on
standards/accreditation/registration/guideline schemes for museums and art
galleries.  I received only two responses - one from New Zealand and one
from Australia!

What has happened to you Northern Hemispere colleagues?

We are about to initiate a project to explore the issue of a national
standards scheme for New Zealand Museums and Art Galleries.  By this we mean
a scheme which will provide museums with a tool for measuring their
performance.

I really would like to hear from anybody who is prepared to pass on some
information  - be it a bibliography, web site address, a brochure, or
contact address.

I have some information on the Museums and Galleries Commission Registration
Scheme in the United Kingdom and am also in contact with colleagues in
Australia who are developing their National Guidelines. I have also located
a web site for the US Accreditation scheme.  Do you not have such schemes in
Holland, Denmark, Canada, South Africa or Israel?  (yes, I am guilty of
lurking for a while!)

Thanks in advance.

And for those movie buffs amongst you - the facade and entrance of the 'old'
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa building features in the Peter
Jackson movie "The Frighteners" just released in New Zealand

Janice Frater
Senior Adviser,National  Services
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
PO Box 467
Wellington
New Zealand
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