Museology
Public Lecutres at CArdiff University
You are welcome to join undergraduate students from the Department of Archaeology and Conservation in the School of History Archaeology and Religion (SHARE) by attending a series of lectures. These are held in room 2.03 of the Humanities Building. Maps for the campus can be found on Cardiff University’s website.
All Lectures Friday 13.10 – 14.00 Room 2.03 Humanities Building
free to attend but if you Book in advance we can notify you of any changes to the programMe.
Coordinator Jane Henderson
17thFebAnna Barnes Conservator / Exhibitions and Outreach Officer, Rotherham MBC
What happens to the things in museums?
This talk will give an account of the way that objects are used and cared for in museums. The speaker will describe the collections care and conservation in operation in a medium sized local authority museums service. The presentation will also cover how collections are used in exhibitions and through outreach activities
24thFebSteve DavisOperational Risk Business Partner Specialist-Security The National Trust
Security in the National Trust
This presentation will describe the experience of crime from a specialist perspective and will look at the solutions used to try and limit losses and damage and the statistics of crime, by reference to reported incidents in the National Trust.
2ndMarchPiotr BienkowskiConsultant
Sharing decision making with communities: what works and what doesn't?
In recent years, Professor Bienkowski has led work in museums aimed at involving different communities in decision-making and interpretation. In the UK and internationally, there is evidence that, despite museums' best intentions, some approaches can backfire, and that communities remain feeling disempowered. Real sharing of decision-making is not easy, and requires systematic change at all levels in an organisation.
16thMarchDavid AndersonDirector AC-NMW
Museums, Participation and Cultural Rights: the implications of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the work of Museums with their publics
The application of Human Rights legislation to museums has not, until recently, received much attention. Yet the implications for the cultural sector is taken seriously, as profound. These include not just what services museums offer to the public, but how such services are developed.
23rdMarchEmma AylingCurator Priests House Museums
Life in a Modern Museum
A behind the scenes talk about life in an independent museum, The Priest's House Museum in East Dorset. The museum is governed by a board of Trustees in partnership with East Dorset District Council. The speaker is one of two professional curators who work with a team of over 100 volunteers who help with all aspects of the Museum. The Museum has won various awards for its creative display and education programmes, and it continues as a very active and lively community service managed on a highly professional basis. The talk will describe the challenges, pitfalls and joys of working with the community to deliver high quality museum services.
30thMarchProfessor Gaynor Kavanagh DPhil MPhil FMA Dean Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Thinking about things: ourselves and the material world.
This talk will be concerned with issues that arise for museums from interlocking notions of identity, memory and the senses. It will challenge the didactic nature of museums where it is based on an unreflective perception of collections as carriers of information
4th MayDiane GwiltKeeper of Collections Services AC nmW
Delivering the vision
This presentation will focus on the managerial aspects of delivering the museum’s vision in practice. The speaker will explain the underpinning role of planning and finance in ensuring that the museum can offer its services. The presentation will describe the core planning documents from a museum; show how risk management feeds into that process and explains how the allocation of funding flows down from decisions about vision, aims, objectives and priorities.
1.10pm 2.03 Humanities Building to confirm