Members may like to know, or be reminded, about the National Inventory Research Project. For the past three years NIRP has employed some 25 art historians to work with curators in 180 collections, large and small, across the U.K. researching and compiling the first phase of the project's database of pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings in UK public collections. Funded by the AHRC, the Getty Foundation and the Kress Foundation, 8,000 records will go online on AHDS Visual Arts in November 2007.
This has been a remarkable collaboration between academic art historians and curators, and I am immensely grateful for the enthusiasm and support given to the project by hundreds of hard-pressed curators and other staff across the UK. We have held four seminars in Glasgow and London at which examples of the immediate benefits of such partnerships have been movingly presented. New exhibitions, displays, and conservation projects have resulted from the work. We believe the database will encourage further research into Museum collections and their use in exhibitions and enhance the value of collections within the museums sector.
I will be talking about the project at the Museums Association Conference in Glasgw in October in the 'Collections-Related Knowledge' strand.
Andrew Greg
Andrew Greg
Project Director
National Inventory Research Project
Dept of History of Art
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Mon, Tues, Thurs 0141 330 8519
Other days 0141 423 7081
Fax 0141 330 3513
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Not true!
I've provided Sarah (off list) with several examples of our work with
university researchers; including a JISC funded project to create an online
resource specifically for an academic research audience.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_digitisation/raphaelite.aspx
Regards,
Rachel
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Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
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The answer is, sadly, they don't want to encourage greater use!
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Suzanne
On 5 Sep 2007, at 16:37, Sarah McNicol wrote:
> Hello
>
> I work for Evidence Base at the University of Central England.
> We've just started a study on behalf of the Research Information
> Network (www.rin.ac.uk) investigating finding aids/discovery
> services to help researchers working in universities to find
> artefacts from museums to use in their research.
>
> In my background research for this I've obviously come across a lot
> of examples of museums working with the public, schools etc to
> promote greater engagement with and use of their collections, but
> I'm struggling to find many examples of museums working
> specifically to encourage greater use of their collections by
> university researchers.
>
> I would be very grateful for any suggestions of museums or projects
> which might be worth looking it. Please email me
> ([log in to unmask]) if you have any ideas.
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> Many thanks
>
> Sarah
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> Sarah McNicol
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> University of Central England
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