Effectively Engaging Maritime Collections and the Community
16th September 2008, 10.00-16.00
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Registration from 9.30
Free event; including lunch and refreshments
Hull Museums invite you to a FREE seminar, funded by Renaissance, to look at how regional and national museums are effectively engaging maritime collections with their communities.
The day will encourage delegates to share ideas about how they work with their collections to inspire diverse audiences. It will examine potential techniques to integrate our communities’ stories within museum interpretation.
The morning session will consist of a number of short talks from colleagues across the country. The afternoon session takes a thoroughly practical approach to inspire discussion amongst delegates on how we can move forward.
Bookings must by made by 8th September.
For further information, or to receive a booking form, please contact
hmm@hullcc.gov.uk or call 613902.
Museums, Sustainability and Growth Conference
Thursday 23 - Friday 24 October 2008
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
A conference exploring the unique contribution that museums and heritage organisations can make to the development of sustainable communities. 21st century communities in the UK are facing many challenges. In the East of England there is a concentration of designated Growth Areas and Growth Points earmarked for sustainable development. These major population and demographic changes will have a significant impact on existing communities and the environment. There is also an increasing awareness of the opportunities for museums to contribute actively to the growing environmental, economic and social sustainability agendas. This can be through practical on-site action and through museums serving as facilitators for interpretation and debate.
For more Information : http://www.renaissance-east.org.uk/Content/Museums,-Sustainability-and-Growth-Conference
or to get the Conference flyer : http://www.renaissance-east.org.uk/UserData/root/Files/Sustainability%20Conference%20Flyer.pdf
Southwold Museum Now Open
Congratulations to the volunteers at Southwold Museum which has recently reopened after a substantial refurbishment funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The museum has also gained accreditation
Award for Henry Blogg RNLI museum
Volunteers from the museum shop in Cromer were presented with the RNLI Supporter of 2008 Award in the Retail category. The volunteers were presented with the Award by the Duchess of Cornwall in London.
International loans from the Museum of Knots and Sailors' Ropework
The Museum, in Ipswich, has recently loaned rope objects to a water-powered museum of the rope industry in Rouen, France, for an exhibition about traditional sailors' ropework and popular maritime art. (http://www.ac-rouen.fr/pedagogie/equipes/eculturel/micv/accueil_micv.htm)
The Museum has also loaned images for a film produced in the USA by the Engineers Club of Dayton, Ohio and the Cordage Institute (http://www.storyofrope.org)
The final loan has been of items connected with sailmaking for an American conference 'Needlework and the Sea', in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
And at home, the Museum, which is run by Des and Liz Pawson, has transferred its seamanship and cordage books into a dedicated library in the grounds.
Shipwreck! For Those in Peril Exhibition
This temporary exhibition opened at Time and Tide Museum at the end of March and continues until 28th September. It is a Maritime Heritage East exhibition, showcasing loans, images and stories from Eastern Region maritime museum partners. (http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?Document=200.44.13)
Maritime Curators Group
Members of the Maritime Curators Group recently decided to widen the scope of the meeting to a UK Maritime Forum every two years. It is hoped that the Forum would enable those with maritime specialisms such as conservators and educators to attend, and coordinate with some meetings of the Historic Ships Committee. The Maritime Curators Group is interested in suggestions for training workshops in the field of maritime knowledge.
Maritime Project Officer
Johanna O'Donoghue has been appointed Maritime Project Officer (East of England hub post) based at Great Yarmouth Museums. She will be responsible for developing a strategic continuation plan for the Maritime Heritage East programme, and identify developmental and training needs for the region's maritime heritage sector
