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Reports and guidelines
Over the years, the CMA has been involved in a number of projects that result in publications, studies, guidelines, and other reports. The CMA has a number of other publications available for sale in the Bookstore.
The following are available free for download.
LGBTQ2+ inclusion for Canadian museums (This is not a final document. It has been reviewed by the CMA LGBTQ2+ Working Group and is currently under community review.)
[alphabetical by publication title]
A Blue Shield for the Protection of Our Endangered Cultural Heritage, IFLA-PAC 2003
Canadians and Their Museums: A Survey of Canadians and their Views About the Country's Museums, CMA 2003
CMA/CAMDO and CARFAC/RAAV RECOMMENDED Exhibition Fee Schedule 2007
CMA Public Opinion Survey on Canadian Attitudes to Museums and Federal Policy
CMA Deaccessioning Guidelines
Discussion Paper on Digital Copyright Issues, Copyright Forum 2000
Economic Impact of Culture and Sport in Canada from Stats CanHUMAN RESOURCES GUIDELINES: HR Toolkit
Let There Be Light, by Ernest Wotton
A Matter of Justice: Recommendations of the Canadian Symposium on Holocaust-era Cultural Property, CMA 2001
More Than Willing Hands : A Report on Voluntarism at Museums, CMA 2001
The Museum's Ethical Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Enterprises in Ethnoecology, Duncan Ferguson Cameron, March 2000
Roles and Responsibilities of Museum Boards of Trustees, CMA and CAMDO 2004
Study on the Economics of Museums Collections 2013Survey of Property Tax Treatment to Museums 2014
Task Force Report on Museums and First Peoples. A Report jointly sponsored by the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Museums Association, 1992 (Reprinted in 1994).
Visual Arts Summit 2007 Sommet sur les arts visuels
Unesco/ICOM Museum Studies Training Package:
Cultural Diversity Publications
Working With Our Communities - David Goa
Communities and Museums: Building Lasting Relationships - David Goa
The Search for Knowledge: Research as Invitation and Response - Henriette Kelker
The Chinese Community in Markham - Dan Liu and Birgitta MacLeod
Community Mapping and Museums - Sandra Massey
The Ethnographic Gaze - Faith Moosang
Study Circles (Red Deer and District Museum and Archives) - David Ridley
Photography, Sympatheia, and Canada's Visual Heritage - Ronald Silvers
A Museum Vision - Nicole Rouel Weppler and Ronald Silvers