Resources for Curatorship
and Community Interactions

As museums increasingly involve communities in their operations, curators need new skills that enable them to undertake the work of collections development, research, access, and exhibition in more inclusive and sustained ways. This website provides selected links to a range of resources that may be helpful to curators who seek more meaningful ways to connect with communities. It draws on Web resources assembled for the University of Victoria's distance course 'Curatorship and Community' and organizes them in the following sections:

'Curatorship and Community,' developed and instructed by Elizabeth Kidd and Carol Mayer, is one of a series of distance education courses for museum and heritage professionals offered by the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

We acknowledge with thanks the support provided by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training of the US National Parks Service http://www.ncptt.nps.gov. Created by Congress, NCPTT is an interdisciplinary effort by the National Park Service to advance the art, craft, and science of historic preservation in the fields of archeology, historic architecture, historic landscapes, objects and materials conservation, and interpretation. NCPTT serves public and private practitioners through research, education and information management.