Collaboration and Diversity

Collaboration with outside organizations, both within the museum field and without, is becoming increasingly useful, even necessary for small museums. Below are some resources that may prove helpful in identifying and working with other organizations to achieve your institution’s mission.

Learn more about the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Service, which develops exhibitions and lends them to small museums across the United States.

Institutional Models of Museum Collaboration discusses various ways in which museums are collaborating with one another to the mutual benefit of all.