Board of directors or board of trustees: Two or more individuals serving as the governing body of an organisation.

Brand: A name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of them, intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of competition (American Association of Marketing). In practical terms, a brand is the name, logo or symbol of a product or a service, including a museum.

Brand equity: Brand equity is the added value the brand gives to a product. It can be of enormous value for the manufacturer or the provider of a service. The consumers or audiences can give the brand positive or negative value.

Budgeting: A process of determining the allocation and expenditure of existing or potential financial resources of a specific period of time. The budget is developed at the conclusion of the planning process where it represents the prioritized allocation of limited financial resources to accomplish stated museum objectives.

Budget surplus or deficit: The difference between budget receipts and expenditure.

Accession (also Accessioning): The formal acceptance of an item into a collection and it's recording into the holdings of the museum and generally includes a transfer of tide.

Cataloguing: Assigning an object to an established classification system and having a record containing such things as identification, provenance, accession and catalogue numbers and location of that object in the collection storage area.

Charitable organisation: Term in some countries used to describe not- for-profit organisations.

Clandestine excavation: unlicensed or otherwise illegal digging or removal of buried antiquities or other cultural heritage.

Collection: An identifiable selection of objects having some significant commonality.

Collections care: A holistic approach to the preservation and conservation of collections that involves all aspects of the museum, from the facilities in which collections are stored and used to basic policies and practices and the education and training of staff-, collections care is the responsibility of all employees.

Collections management: Administration and care of collections with concern for their long-term physical well-being and safety. Includes issues of conservation, access and use, inventory and record keeping as well as administration of the overall composition of the collections in relation to the museum's mission and goals.

Collection management policy: A comprehensive written statement that describes what, why and how a museum collects. It is a public document that articulates an individual museum's professional standards about collecting and care of collections.

Community relations: Initiation and maintenance of communications and interaction with the community at large and with specific constituencies.

Computerisation: The process of transferring manual records of any kind (particularly catalogues of collections, and financial, personnel and marketing records) to computer storage and management.

Condition report: An accurate, written, and photographic description of an object or document state of preservation at a moment in time and updated each time the object is involved in any activity, such as going on loan or put on exhibit. Assists in planning for conservation treatment.

Conflict of interest: The existence of a personal or private interest which gives rise to a clash of principle in a work situation, thus restricting, or having the appearance of restricting, the objectivity of decision making.

Conservator-restorer: Museum or independent personnel competent to undertake the technical examination, preservation, conservation and restoration of cultural property.

Consultant: Someone providing services to an organization (usually for a fee) in a capacity other than that of "employee."

Contract: An agreement enforceable in law.

Context: the micro - and macro-environment of an archaeological find and specifically the spatial relationship of objects to one another and their physical surroundings which may enable the scientific establishment of the temporal relationships, especially from soil strata.

Contribution (donation): Transfer of money or property without the expectation of material return.