Federation of Museums and Galleries of Wales

Museum Strategy for Wales Regional Meetings

The meetings are open to all. If you would like to attend or if you have any questions then please contact Rachael Lovering on [log in to unmask]. 

For more information on the meetings, please see below.

21st November Carmarthenshire County Museum, Abergwili 10:30am - 1:30pm

23rd November Cynon Valley Museum & Gallery 10:30am - 1:30pm

1st December Powysland Museum, Welshpool 1pm - 4pm.

Dates for meeting in North Wales to follow; check the Federation website for more details of these; www.welshmuseumsfederation.org

The Federation is working with CyMAL to help implement the Museum Strategy for Wales. For this purpose it has appointed Sarah Daly and Rachael Lovering to deliver a programme of work concentrating on areas led by individual museums, the Federation, and liaising with CyMAL and Amgueddfa Cymru  - National Museum Wales on projects which they are leading on and on which the Federation are partners.  

Why is the Strategy important?

• The Museum Strategy for Wales outlines clear, shared ambitions and roles for the whole sector. This is a chance for us to be used as a model for other home nations’ strategies and to promote ourselves nationally and publicise the great work we are doing.  

• The Strategy was published by CyMAL; a division of the Welsh Government, so it underpins Government policy on museums. It therefore strengthens our position politically, it relates to Accreditation and is an important part of grant criteria for CyMAL.

• The Strategy identifies actions for all museums, either working individually or in partnership.  It builds on activity already in progress, allowing us to demonstrate the good work that happens, and also suggests ways of working more effectively using existing resources.

What is the brief?

• Communication across the sector about the Strategy, information and promotional work, identifying training needs and planning for the future. 

• There are a lot of great things happening in Welsh Museums already meeting the actions in the Strategy which we would like to know more about and use as Case Studies. If you have interesting projects, effective partnerships within and beyond the sector or policies and plans that you are proud of, please let us know – especially if you have photographs too!

• Finding out from you what you are already doing to meet the criteria in the strategy and what you need to help you do so, will help us to create model documents to help museums across Wales – and even beyond - with a range of issues.

• We’re hoping to use the Federation website to publish projects and good practice but we also want to find out from people what the best methods of communication to promote the work of the strategy are. We’d like you to tell us if you use blogs, social networking,email lists, your own website, People’s Collection Wales or other means to communicate and promote your museum. If you’d like training for this we’d also like to know.      

• We also want to find out what peoples’ general training needs are and liaise with CyMAL on providing training and development opportunities.

What can you do?

•  Attend one of the regional meetings we have organised to discuss the implementation of the Strategy.  Please see the Fed website for more details of these;  www.welshmuseumsfederation.org

• Access the Advocacy Strategy published by the Federation, available on their website along with a toolkit data and template to write your own strategy to promote yourselves to your stakeholders.  Visit www.welshmuseumsfederation.org under the section on advocacy.