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115 7.1.1. Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding never been possible or without the recent and current support by a local community which accepted tourism, even mass tourism, but which, over decades, has been proud of its own identity, a key element they continue to foster. Participation: The local community plays a key role when it comes to planning activities for the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding. The community not only takes care of the way the Mu - seum looks like, but it also creates extended areas of the Museum itself, like by regulating Betina’s ancient harbour, which will be devoted exclusively to wooden ships to moor there, and therefore not any other kinds of boats will be able to use it. Or by reporting to the Museum staff sailors do not respect the set rules or reporting by local people on any - thing else not fitting the idea of the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding: the Museum has a kind of authority of a museum police, imagine! Assistance As explained above, the Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding is the result of a synergy between local community (transferred foremost by the Betina Gajeta 1740 Association, a local OCS), Betina City Council and invited museum/heritage experts (curators from the Šibenik City Museum) and Kocka, a private consultancy firm on museum/heritage pro - jects, where the local community played a key role, including the final monitoring of the Museum permanent exhibition, which has been proposed by experts. Furthermore, local community actively participates in preparing the Museum activities, for example, by policing/reporting when there are wooden on plastic boats moored in the old harbour (reserved for wooden boats only) or by any other related activity. Diversity of Audiences · Locals, schoolchildren, families, elderly, tourists, specialized visitors. Positive impact on the community (examples) The Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding represents a case-study of how heritage could be used as a main generator, a trigger for social change, territorial development, and sustainable action. The Betina Museum of Wooden Shipbuilding is a public project which supports the core identity of the village and the villagers, who are mainly local shipbuilders whose work has supported local economy for hundreds of years and did not fail doing it (regardless of sirens’ voices) despite mass tourism over the last few decades. By initiating it, creating, and cooperating, the community makes a profit of a heritage- based site, as well as of Croatian museums and the heritage professional sector.