These notes explain what advocacy is, and how you can plan your communications to help you achieve results. They have been written with museum workers in mind, but have wider applicability.

If you have to prepare reports or key pieces of information for senior managers or decision makers, these notes should be of help to you.

These notes give suggestions for activities based on taxidermy displays and specimens  in museums to support the teaching of the National Curriculum for Science at Key Stages 1-4. They should be useful for teachers, museum workers, parents and students.

These notes explore how to identify the most important challenges to museums, how to identify strengths and weaknesses, and make decisions that will help you most.

Abstract (part): Recent studies have provided baseline information pertaining to the monetary costs associated with collecting scientific specimens and curating and caring for those specimens after they have been accessioned into a natural history collection. Here, we provide a synopsis of the primary benefits that natural history collections provide to science and society. Furthermore, given that financial support is crucial for long-term growth and care, we present several ideas that should be considered by curators and users of systematic collections.

Explores how citizen science and other types of programme that can be associated with natural history museums can bridge the gap between science education (typically information focussed) and environmental eduction (typically resource, behaviour and values focussed)

This paper examines connections between childhood involvement with the natural environment and adult environmentalism from a life course perspective. Approximately 2,000 adults age 18-90 living in urban areas throughout the United States were interviewed with respect to their childhood nature experiences and their current, adult attitudes and behaviors relating to the environment.  

"Here we aim to provide guidance to support people considering using a citizen science approach, especially (but not necessarily restricted to) monitoring biodiversity and

the environment in the UK. It will help you decide whether citizen science is likely to be useful, and it will help you decide which broad approach to citizen science is most suitable for your question or activity."

"In this report we provide a decision framework that can be used to guide whether and when to use a citizen science approach for environmental monitoring. Before using the decision framework we recommend that five precursors to a citizen science approach are considered."

This report was issued by UNESCO in 2017.

"Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England, builds on Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS. It outlines the Governments’ commitment to protecting our population from serious health threats and adopts the life course framework for tackling the wider social determinants of health. The environment (natural and built) is explicitly recognised as a determinant of health."

Template based on Significance 2.0 framework. Template allows museum staff to complete as much as they can themselves, and then evaluate the Significance level in discussion with Manchester Museum staff, for consistency. 

This grid was developed as part of the Significance 2.0 collections review methodology, to identify current and potential uses of museum collections.

"The aim of this guide is to support museumsin considering and selecting appropriate methodologies to guide the rationalisation of their collections. It identifies the main issues for museums to consider and provides information about tools and resources available to support the rationalisation procedure."

This report was prepared in 1998 by the North West Federation. It gives details of the collections in North West museums. 

"MENE is a weekly survey of the English adult population that captures data on use and enjoyment of the outdoors. The survey is now in its fourth year since it started in March 2009." This accessible infographic give summarised findings.

This infographic presents an overview of the results of the MENE survey, the official monitor of people's engagement with the environment in the UK.