Forwarded for the consideration of all railway museums with at least one professional staff member (EDIT: this can be paid or unpaid)...
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There's an affordable way for you to:

--strengthen your museum's operations
--build your capacity
--establish priorities

For 26 years, museums of all sizes and types have partnered with the Museum Assessment Program (MAP) to attain excellence in operations and planning. MAP is a low-cost confidential process of guided self-study that includes consultation with a museum professional.

Postmark Deadline: February 15, 2008

The application and guidelines are available for download at www.aam-us.org/map

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The Museum Assessment Program is supported through a cooperative agreement between the American Association of Museums (AAM) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Erik,

I went looking to the link you included for the Museum Assessment Program and found the following under eligibility:


I urge everyone to consider the program. Orange Empire has participated in several of the different assessment evaluations over the years. I see that in 2007 the Pacific Locomotive Association had an institutional assessment. Looking over the list you will see both small museums and large museums participating.

Thank you Brian, that's a key clarification and sorry for the misleading lead. I will edit my original post.

The MAP Program is an excellent tool. We were able to use our assessment as the basis for our strategic planning process.

Wesley