What is Spectrum?

Spectrum is for museums of any size and any collection type, and may also be useful to similar institutions with museum-like collections.

To keep things simple, we use ‘museum’ to cover all collections-based organizations, and ‘you’ to mean everyone involved in managing your collections: from the governing bodies who set policies and budgets to every level of staff and volunteer, both front-of-house and behind the scenes.

It gives tried-and-tested advice on the things most museums do when managing their collections. Some of these are daily activities, such as moving objects around and updating location records. Others are occasional, like updating insurance cover. Spectrum calls all these activities procedures and there are 21 of them.