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The following information comes from a source outside of CyMAL and  is not available through the medium of Welsh. Please accept our apologies for the lack of bilingual provision.

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ARCHIVES IN MUSEUMS TRAINING DAY
23 November 2007
Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh, Brecon

Description: Museums around the country contain archives as part of their holdings. While larger museums can employ specialist staff to deal with these collections, smaller and voluntary museums are often unable or unclear how to manage, preserve and access the archives they hold.

       
Content: This one-day course considers the important differences between museum objects and archive records and the difficulties that museums can have in storing, accessing and exploiting archives within their collections. Using a mixture of presentations, case studies and group working it aims to provide practical training to equip museum practitioners to manage and understand archives.

10.00 a.m - Registration and coffee
       
10.15 a.m - Welcome and Domestics
       
10.20 a.m - Introduction and Context: What are Archives? How do museums manage them?
       
11.10 a.m - Break
       
11.30 a.m - Regiment Museum of the Royal Welsh case study:using archive collections for family history research and digitising photograph collections

       
12.30 p.m - Lunch
       
13.20 p.m - Tour of the museum
       
13.50 p.m - Physical care of archive collections: Storage, preservation, conservation & handling
       
14.50 p.m - Tea
       
15.10 p.m - Using archive collections: Access for users, exhibitions, cataloguing, reproduction
       
16.15 p.m - Questions and Close

Outcomes: By the end of the day, participants will have considered:

§ Why museums hold archives, what distinguishes them from their other collections and why this is important 

§ Practical strategies for the appropriate physical care of collections 
 
§ Successful ways of exploiting archive collections to attract visitors, complement exhibitions, develop new users and to promote the museum

Each participant will provided with  copies of presentation slides and key documents

Format: Seminar with some group work sessions
       
Requirements: The course content is aimed at people with an active involvement in the museum world and is particularly suited to both qualified, non-qualified and volunteer museum staff working in smaller institutions without the benefit of professional support for their archive collections

       
Max. Group Size: 20 
       
Trainers: The training will be delivered by Jon Newman, a local authority archivist and archive and museum consultant, and Martin Everett, curator of the Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh

       
Lunch: A sandwich lunch and refreshments are include on the course
       
Booking: To book a place on this free course please contact

Celia Green
Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh 
The Barracks
Brecon
Powys
LD3 7EB

Tel: 01874 613310
Fax: 01874 613275

Email:  [log in to unmask]

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Elizabeth Bennett

Swyddog Cyngor a Chefnogaeth - Advice and Support Officer

CyMAL: Amgueddfeydd, Archifau a Llyfrgelloedd Cymru - CyMAL: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales
Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru - Welsh Assembly Government

Uned 10, Parc Gwyddoniaeth, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3AH.
Unit 10, Science Park, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3AH.
Ffon/Tel: 01970 610235
Ffacs/Fax: 01970 610223
Rhif GTN/GTN No: 7 2846 0235
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