Utah Arts & Museums' Office of Museum Services recently conducted a survey to gain information on museums' growth, development and value in the State of Utah. The survey was directed toward attendance, budgets, professional development, collection/records, information technology and museum priorities.
The results will help Museum Services better represent museums’ needs and concerns to Utah Legislators. It is also intended to help the Division best serve Utah museums with technical assistance and their future development.
Survey Results
This Creative Vitality Index (CVI) is an annual measure of the economic health of the arts-related creative economy in Utah. In the CVI, creative economy is defined as including for-profit and nonprofit arts-related creative enterprises, and the key support and service activities that sustain them. The Index is the result of research that was designed to develop a more inclusive and robust diagnostic tool related to the economic dimensions of the arts elements of the creative economy. Downloads the CVI below:
We are committed to enabling our arts and cultural organizations to grow and stabilize by providing professional development. One of the modes of providing this assistance is through our publications. Our Utah Nonprofit Corporations Handbook is currently in its fifth revision and has assisted many of our organizations in Utah learns the basic steps to incorporating and obtaining their 501(c)(3) IRS status. Due to the success of this handbook, we decided to publish two companion handbooks, this one on volunteer development in 1999 and another on effective board leadership. We hope these publications will provide you with many of the necessary tools for accomplishing your goals.
Following two years of research, holding Listening Tours to gather information on the needs in the arts in various communities, and interviewing other state arts agencies on best practices, we prepared a strategic plan for 2007-2011, approved by its Board of Directors in early 2007.