Innovation

Be adaptive, resourceful and prepared to take risks

Developing a new museum is an opportunity for creative thinking and trying out new ideas. Whatever your plan for the museum, it needs to be focused on what your potential audiences need and adaptive, so you can change your plans when required.

Museums should be prepared to take some risks and look for different and resourceful ways of achieving their aims.

The Arts Marketing Association, University of Leeds and The Heritage Alliance have researched and consulted with the sector to find organisations’ 100 most pressing digital questions in the Digital Heritage Hub and it includes a very helpful section on using digital technologies to transform how your organisation works. Click here for the Digital Heritage Hub>>

Spend time talking to your team and discussing new ideas. Visiting museums, especially those with recent developments and considering new and different approaches, is a good way to gather ideas and decide what will work well for your new museum.

Self assessment questions to help you focus on Innovation:

• How good are we at encouraging our team to try new things?
• To what extent do we actively look for new ways of achieving our purpose?
• How effectively do we avoid being held back by the objection ‘we’ve always done it that way’?

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