Large-scale projects

These pages contain resources designed to help plan out and successfully manage large, extensive projects. This guidance includes considerations such as environmental sustainability, engaging with stakeholders, advocating for capital development, and more.

You may like to consider joining the Major Archive Projects Learning Exchange (MAPLE). Set up in 2007, the exchange provides to support organisations planning or managing large archive projects, primarily capital developments. Over 120 organisations are members of the group, including local authority, university, national and specialist archives. 

Large-scale projects
Managing split-site archive services

Managing split-site archive services

Increasingly archive services have to consider and/or manage considerable proportions of archival storage away from the main archive service site, in some cases up to 80-90% of their collection away from their main office and access point.

Planning a new repository

Planning a new repository

Building a new repository or redeveloping an existing building to safely preserve and make accessible archive collections are significant projects with many elements to consider.

Capital developments

Capital developments

Planning and delivering a new archive building or store or refurbishing an existing building can be a significant challenge.

Large cultural infrastructure projects

Large cultural infrastructure projects

Large cultural infrastructure projects such as City of Culture and Borough of Culture provide exciting opportunities to celebrate communities and the transformative power of culture, creating a positive legacy in local areas.