ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some insights into the events that have led up to achieving a National Strategy, and for those wishing to embark on a similar path, some consideration of the issues involved. The recently launched 'Going Further The National Strategy for Scotland's Museums and Galleries' has creating public value at its heart and has unified the whole of the museum sector under a single vision: Scotland's museums and galleries will be ambitious, dynamic and sustainable enterprises: connecting people, places and collections; inspiring, delighting and creating public value. Throughout the process, the Secretary championed both the role of museums in creating public value and having this at the heart of the National Strategy. This is perhaps a rare example of what Moore envisaged in his public value model, as the National Strategy was developed in the context of a partnership between the 'authorizing environment' of Scottish government and the 'operational environment' of the museum sector represented by Museums Galleries Scotland.
