The partnership has agreed the following goals to deliver its vision:
- to develop and promote the role of partner museums and presence in relation to national and regional, cultural, educational and economic agendas
- to enhance the roles of partner museums through the establishment of support networks and training and skills development
- to enable partner museums to participate in the community planning process
- to identify and develop joint funding proposals
- to promote benchmarks for quality in museum services and management
- to improve the interface between local partner museums and national agencies
- to work across local authority boundaries to develop regional public, voluntary and private sector partnerships between museums and other agencies