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| | A special one day Museums North seminar at |
| | Segedunum, Wallsend |
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| | Friday 27 April 2001 |
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An opportunity to learn about partnership working in practice. Speakers from
museums around the region will discuss a range of partnership projects
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regional, national and international ? and share their practical experiences of
making partnerships, obtaining funding, and developing and delivering projects.
PROGRAMME
10.30 am Arrival and coffee
11.00 am A partnership solution to large object storage
Work is about to start on the construction of one of the largest new
buildings ever erected for museum purposes in the north east ? the
joint Beamish/ Tyne & Wear Museums Large Object Collections Centre
(LOCC). The Centre will play a vital role in saving internationally
important industrial, maritime, railway, mining, transport and
agricultural collections from decay and in improving public access to
this material.
John Gall of Beamish and John Clayson of TWM will explain the need for
such a facility in the region, the origins of the partnership between
their organisations, how the scheme was developed in consultation with
NEMS, and how it came to be funded jointly by the MGC/Resource
Designation Challenge Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
11.30 am Artworld: creating collaborative teaching resources in university
museums
Karen Exell of the University of Durham's Oriental Museum will talk
about this exciting new project, which is just getting underway. A
collaboration between the Universities of Durham and East Anglia and
the V & A, this 3 year project is funded by the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC). It aims to develop teaching resources for
use on CD ROM or online from an image database. Karen will provide an
insight into the project, partners and funding, plus the Higher
Education context and the technology which makes the project possible.
12.00 noon A national railway collection in the north east
A £6.1 m HLF funded project is being developed to bring the National
Railway Museum's reserve vehicle collection to the north. This
partnership between Sedgefield Borough Council and the NRM will see
vehicles being relocated from stores all over the country to a new
facility at the Timothy Hackworth Museum at Shildon - with benefits of
improved access and interpretation. Alan Pearce of the Timothy
Hackworth Museum and a speaker from the NRM (to be confirmed) will
talk about the development of the partnership, the current status of
the project and the expectations for the future.
12.30 pm Lunch (lunch not provided, café on site or do your own thing)
1.30 pm Tomorrow's History
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and managed by NEMLAC, a
partnership of libraries, museums and archives in the North East
region are involved in the Tomorrow's History project to open up
twenty-first century access to their collections and to support
community history projects across the region. As part of the
northeast.com, the region's official website and on-line Regional
Information Service, Tomorrow's History will be delivered through
networks to schools, colleges and libraries throughout the region, and
nationally and globally over the World Wide Web.
Eileen Carnaffin, Tomorrow's History Project Officer, and Iain Watson
from Durham County Council's Arts, Libraries and Museums Department
will provide an overview of the project and discuss some of the issues
relating to working with a large number of partners.
2.00 pm European partnerships on museum projects
Tyne & Wear Museums has participated in a couple of European
partnerships and, as the City of Culture 2008 bid is prepared by
Newcastle and Gateshead, the pressure is on to get involved in more.
TWM have a rich vein of experience from the first 2 projects, a
virtual Euro-museum on CD and an exhibition organised between 5
countries, but does that mean that it is possible to see in advance
whether new projects are worthwhile?
John Millard of Tyne & Wear Museums will talk about these projects and
the value of international collaboration.
3.00 pm Discussion
3.30 pm Tea and close
The seminar will be in the Daniels Room at Segedunum.
This seminar is free to Museums North members.
Non-members can also come along for the modest fee of £7.00 ?
inclusive of one year's free Museums North membership.
Cheques should be made payable to the Northern Federation of Museums.
Name:
I will/will not be attending the meeting at Segedunum on 27 April 2001.
I am/am not a member of Museums North and enclose a fee of £7.00.
Please return to: Ian Whitehead, Secretary, Museums North,
Hartlepool Arts and Museums, Sir William Gray House,
Clarence Road, Hartlepool, TS24 8BT
or tel (01429) 523443 or fax (01429) 523477
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