The Heritage Management Organization (HERITΛGE) is happy to announce a series of online training workshops for heritage managers for 2024-2025.
A variety of scholarships and funding opportunities are available. As places are limited, candidates are advised to apply as soon as possible.
Online Workshop Calendar 2024-2025
Introduction to Heritage Interpretation for Site Managers | 01 – 03 October 2024
Master the principles of high-quality heritage interpretation and gain hands-on experience in implementing them at your site/organization in order to create meaningful and unforgettable experiences for visitors.
Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage | 11– 13 October 2024
Understand the community engagement process, a key heritage management strategy. Master the challenges of working with local communities discern between communities and audiences and understand audience segmentation, get introduced to ethnographic approaches to creating collaborative research-based programs, and learn the methods and techniques of oral history to elicit and document tangible and intangible heritage.
Conservation III: Preventive Conservation (pilot) | 15-17 November
A pilot workshop only open to heritage managers that have previously completed Conservation II: First Aid for Finds.
Interpretive Writing for Natural and Cultural Heritage | 25-27 November 2024
Learn how to write text that grabs and holds the reader’s attention. Discover and practice a wide range of techniques to engage visitors and master the techniques of interpretive writing. Participants will work to become a HERITΛGE-accredited Interpretive Writer, after successfully completing, and being assessed on, the exercises and activities.
Project Management for Heritage Managers | 13-15 December 2024
Gain the skills and knowledge to run a successful project from inception, through the planning and implementation phases to closure. Create a work breakdown structure, a critical path diagram and a Gantt chart. Research potential funders and write a grant application. Improve personal time management skills. Learn to think critically, identify risks and create solutions.
Organising Temporary Exhibitions from your Collections and Touring Strategies | 14–16 February 2025
The focus of this workshop is to give you the skills to ensure temporary, touring and partnership exhibitions can enhance and promote your institution’s mission, create new audiences and mutually beneficial partnerships. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own exhibition ideas to the workshop for discussion and development.
Strategic Planning for Heritage Managers | 9-11 May 2025
Successful strategy can lead to success and this course will provide participants with the tools and methodologies to successfully formulate and implement strategy in organizations managing cultural heritage. Learn the methods and tools of strategic analysis that will enable you devise and evaluate alternative strategic choices and comprehend the demands of a strategy implementation project.
To apply visit: https://heritagemanagement.org/executiveleadership/