Online Course: "How to Develop a Code of Ethics for Your Museum"
Museum Study is a US-based organisation that provides online professional development to those working in museums, collection-management organisations and other cultural institutions. In this context, January 2017 will see the launch of a new course entitled "How to Develop a Code of Ethics for Your Museum".
The course focuses on the code of ethics as a core standard of museum practice, as identified among others by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). AAM states that these documents "embody core museum values and practices." By examining codes of ethics and exploring the principles that they include, the course is a preparation for creating one such code in participants' museums.
"How to Develop a Code of Ethics for Your Museum" will begin by looking at codes of ethics, generally, and answer the following questions:
- What is a code of ethics?
- What is the difference between an ethical and a legal issue?
- Why should museums pay attention to both?
- Why should each museum have its own code of ethics?
- How is a code of ethics created – who should be involved and why?
- What is the difference between discipline specific guidelines and codes and a museum's code of ethics?
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