There are a wide variety of resources online for those looking to start a museum.
For this roundup, I selected only resources that I found most helpful for beginners and people with very little museum experience.
1. How to Start a Museum: A Beginner’s Field Guild
For the absolute beginner and for someone who is just beginning to explore the idea of starting a small museum, this page will introduce you to the basic steps of museum startup.
2. How do you start a museum? Advice from four museum leaders who’ve done it.
After you have skimmed through the first website, dive a bit deeper with this article put out by Museum Next.
3. 10 Steps to Starting a Museum
After you are past the dreaming stage, it is time to take action.
10 Steps to Starting a Museum gives you the actionable steps to starting your museum.
4. The Business Model of the Nonprofit Museum
Sotheby’s Institute of Art has an excellent article about setting up a nonprofit museum. It addresses one of the most common questions about starting a museum: Where does the money come from?
5. The Ups and Downs of Running a Small-Town Museum
Finally, get an inside look at what it is like to run a small museum.
