CyMAL: Amgueddfeydd Archifau a Llyfrgelloedd Cymru
Gwasanaeth Gwybodaeth Amgueddfeydd - Bwletin 118
Mae gwybodaeth am y gwasanaeth gwybodaeth Amgueddfeydd ar gael ar dudalennau CyMAL ar wefan Llywodraeth Cymru.
http://www.cymru.gov.uk/cymal
Os mae eitem yn ymddangos yn Saesneg yn unig yn y bwletin hwn, doedd dim fersiwn Cymraeg o’r eitem ar gael pan cafodd y bwletin ei baratoi.
LLYWODRAETH CYMRU - CYMAL
Gweinidog yn lansio cyllid ar gyfer amgueddfeydd, archifau a llyfrgelloedd
Cyhoeddodd Huw Lewis, y Gweinidog Tai, Adfywio a Threftadaeth, y cylch diweddaraf o gynlluniau grant ar gyfer amgueddfeydd, archifau a llyfrgelloedd Cymru. Mae’r Gweinidog yn gwahodd ceisiadau ar gyfer cylch 2012-13 ar gyfer Arloesi a Datblygu, y cynllun ar gyfer amgueddfeydd, archifau a llyfrgelloedd. Nod y cynllun yw datblygu’r cyfoeth o gasgliadau amrywiol sydd i’w cael mewn amgueddfeydd, archifau a llyfrgelloedd, yn ogystal â hyrwyddo mynediad iddynt, ac annog pobl i’w defnyddio.
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/cultureandsport/museumsarchiveslibraries/cymal/grants/
Ail-lansio’r cynllun Cyfoeth Cymru Gyfan
Bwriedir ehangu cynllun blaenllaw Llywodraeth Cymru sy’n galluogi amgueddfeydd ac orielau rhanbarthol i fenthyca eitemau o gasgliadau Amgueddfeydd ac Orielau Cenedlaethol Cymru. Dyna a gyhoeddodd y Gweinidog Treftadaeth, Huw Lewis. Yn ail-lansiad y cynllun Cyfoeth Cymru Gyfan yng Nghastell Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tudful, cyhoeddodd y Gweinidog ei fod wedi sicrhau cefnogaeth ariannol Cronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri i ehangu’r cynllun yn 2012/13. Caiff y cynllun ei estyn i gynnwys llyfrgelloedd ac archifdai hefyd, fel eu bod hwythau yn cael yr hawl i fenthyca eitemau o gasgliadau Amgueddfeydd ac Orielau Cenedlaethol Cymru a sefydliadau cenedlaethol eraill y DU.
Adolygiad Cyfoeth Cymru Gyfan
Sefydlwyd Cyfoeth Cymru Gyfan yn 2002 i gefnogi benthyg casgliadau o amgueddfeydd cenedlaethol i amgueddfeydd lleol ar draws Cymru. Mae CyMAL wedi rheoli’r cynllun ers 2004. Ers hynny, mae 13 amgueddfeydd wedi cymryd rhan yn y cynllun. Mae pob un o'r amgueddfeydd wedi derbyn arian sydd wedi eu galluogi i fenthyca eitemau sy'n berthnasol i'w ardal o amgueddfeydd cenedlaethol. Fel rhan o'r strategaeth amgueddfeydd cenedlaethol, a gyhoeddwyd yn 2010, mae CyMAL wedi gwneud adolygiad o'r cynllun yn 2010/11. Mae'r adolygiad wedi edrych ar ganlyniadau'r cynllun hyd yn hyn, a sut y gellid ei ymestyn.
LLYWODRAETH CYMRU
Prosiectau treftadaeth Cymru yn elwa ar gyllid gwerth miliynau
Cyhoeddodd Huw Lewis, y Gweinidog Tai, Adfywio a Threftadaeth, y bydd naw prosiect treftadaeth ar draws Cymru yn elwa ar gyllid o £2.4 miliwn. Mae'r cyllid yn dod o Brosiect Twristiaeth Treftadaeth £19 miliwn Llywodraeth Cymru sy'n cael ei gefnogi gan £8.5 miliwn o gyllid Ewropeaidd. Nod y prosiect yw sicrhau'r gwerth gorau posibl i dreftadaeth drwy gynyddu nifer, hyd a gwerth yr ymweliadau â Chymru, gan gysylltu themâu treftadaeth Cymru yn genedlaethol, yn rhanbarthol ac yn lleol. Bydd y prosiect hefyd yn sicrhau ei bod hi'n haws manteisio ar dreftadaeth ysblennydd Cymru ac yn gwella'r profiad o ymweld â hi - er budd trigolion Cymru ac ymwelwyr â'r wlad.
LLYWODRAETH Y DU
Acceptance in Lieu increased to £30m
Chancellor George Osborne’s autumn statement will see an increase from £20m to £30m in the limit on tax offset by donations under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Paragraph 2.35 of the statement states: “At Budget 2011, the government announced that it would consult on proposals to encourage donations of pre-eminent works of art or historical objects to the nation in return for a tax reduction.”
Following consultation, the government will legislate to enable individuals to receive a reduction in their income tax or capital gains tax liabilities, and companies to receive a reduction in their corporation tax liabilities, in return for donating pre-eminent objects under this new scheme. Total tax reductions under this scheme, and taxes offset under the existing inheritance tax Acceptance in Lieu scheme, will be subject to an increased annual limit of £30m a year overall.
FFEDERASIWN AMGUEDDFEYDD AC ORIELAU CELF CYMRU
The Federation meets Huw Lewis
On Thursday 6th October members of the Federation committee met with Huw Lewis, Minister for Housing, Regeneration & Heritage. The meeting included discussions on the Museums Strategy for Wales, the advocacy work of the Fed and the relationship between Wales/CyMAL and the DCMS and ACE. The full summary of the meeting provides further information.
Delivering the Museums Strategy for Wales together
Your museum (or service) is vital to delivery of the Museum Strategy for Wales. We want to find out what you are already doing to further the three guiding principles and actions (outlined below) and what further help you need. If you complete the survey (which takes about 10 minutes) you have the chance to enter a prize draw to win £50 for your museum.
The deadline for completion is 23rd December 2011.
Please also forward the link to this survey to anyone else in your organisation with a part to play in delivering the strategy (from volunteers and front of house staff right through to governing bodies.) Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like any more information or if you would like to receive an email/paper copy of this survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BSQS387
Sarah Daly, Museum consultant & freelance writer, 01291 637478
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Y CYMDEITHAS AMGUEDDFEYDD
MA Representative for Wales - Barbara Bartl, Museums officer, Newport Museum and Art Gallery
My role as member representative is to be the main point of contact between the MA and its members in Wales. I will link up with local networks, attend meetings, provide information and offer feedback to the MA. If there are issues that you wish to raise, or any feedback you would like to pass on to the Museums Association, please get in touch.
http://www.museumsassociation.org/representatives/wales
Voices of museums must be heard at EU Commission
At the annual meeting of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) in Athens last month, attendees heard how efforts are being made to raise the profile of museums ahead of the launch of the next EU culture programme in 2013. Attendees at the meeting discussed the upcoming Culture 2013 programme with Illona Kish, a spokeswoman from culture lobbying group Culture Action Europe. Kish said that the EU Commission’s department for culture will shortly be issuing proposals for the seven-year, multi-million euro programme, which awards grants across Europe for partnerships and projects in the arts, media and cultural sectors.
http://www.museumsassociation.org/news/23112011-nemo-meeting-athens
Y CYMDEITHAS AMGUEDDFEYDD ANNIBYNNOL
Outstanding visitor experiences: find out more at the next AIM Conference - 14-16 June, 2012
The annual AIM Conference on 14-16 June Would You Come Again? Growing the Visitor Experience at the Museum will focus on what makes a visitor experience outstanding. AIM members rely on visitors’ enjoyment - without meeting or exceeding visitor expectations independent museums are unlikely to survive or flourish, so this conference will look at some success stories and approaches that could transform your museum offer. Watch out for the full programme and booking form mailed out with the February AIM Bulletin, and on the website.
HYBU AMGUEDDFEYDD
Connect10, a new project for Museums at Night 2012: information for venues
So, this new Connect10 project. It’s part of Museums at Night - but what does it mean for you and your venue? Connect10 is a new national competition for cultural venues to win an artist to appear at a meet-the-artist event during Museums at Night 2012. One of ten well-known contemporary artists could be on the way to your venue on the weekend of 18th - 20th May 2012.
http://museumsatnight.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/connect10-information-for-venues/
CASGLIADIAU
Fill in our orphan works survey for the chance to win a Kindle
This is your opportunity to make your voice heard at Westminster and Brussels. In 2009 the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the Collections Trust (CT) published one of the few empirical pieces of evidence - In From the Cold - on the scale and impact of orphan works (works for which the rights holders are unknown or cannot be traced) on galleries, libraries, archives and libraries specifically and other organisations more broadly. Orphan works represent a significant barrier to education, research and innovation. We need your help in building the evidence base to support you to deliver digital content more efficiently and effectively, so we are asking you to complete this short survey: http://1686881.polldaddy.com/s/orphan-works-survey.
http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
CADWRAETH
Icon Conservation Cards
Working with CSCS, Icon has agreed a mechanism to offer conservators and conservation technicians/craftspeople the opportunity to gain specific CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) cards for access to building sites where their conservation skills are used. Applicants can get either an Icon Conservator Card, equivalent to the CSCS ‘Professionally Qualified Person’ black management car, or alternatively a Conservation Technician or Conservation Craftsperson card, the title of which role will be chosen by the applicant. For either alternative, there is also a ‘graduate’ option for new practitioners.
http://www.cscs.uk.com/occupations/default.asp?i=726&title=Conservator
DOGFENNAETH, DIGIDEIDDIO A TGCH
Cyfeiriadur Prosiectau Cymru Ddigidol
Mae'r Cyfeiriadur yn rhestru'r prosiectau, y rhaglenni a'r gweithgareddau y cyfeirir atynt yng Nghynllun Cyflawni Cymru Ddigidol. Mae’r sector cyhoeddus yn cynnal nifer o brosiectau, rhaglenni a gweithgareddau neu’n gysylltiedig â’r gwaith o’u cynnal. Mae'r cyfeiriadur hwn yn rhoi manylion y gweithgareddau hynny.
AHRC project looks at how social media is changing the way users engage with cultural collections
How are new online media environments changing the way users engage with, and learn from, the collections of cultural institutions? This question underpins a new research project being undertaken as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Beyond Text research programme. 'Taking forward a participative 21st Century Inventory' is a project which builds on the research being undertaken by Beyond Text Collaborative Doctoral Award student Michela Clari. Entitled 'In the hands of the user’, Michela’s work looks at changing patterns of participation and learning through the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) digital collections.
Digitisation and the Environment
Digitisation is defined as the conversion of analogue information into digital information. Or, more specifically, the representation of an arts, cultural heritage or educational object, image, event or document in digital form, with the express purpose of providing a resource that can be re-used in learning, teaching and research. The digitisation of the world's cultural heritage and other educational resources has grown considerably in the recent past. Significant sums of public money have been invested in digitisation, and museums, galleries, archives and libraries have placed high priority in providing access to their collections and holdings in the formats expected by today’s increasingly digitally-connected learners, teachers and researchers.
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/article/digitisation-and-the-environment
QRator
QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and academic researchers, to enhance museum interpretation, community engagement and establish new connections to museum exhibit content.
QRator enables members of the public to type in their thoughts and interpretation of museum objects and click ‘send’. Their interpretation become part of the objects history and ultimately the display itself via the interactive label system to allow the display of comments and information directly next to the artefacts.
HYFFORDDIANT A CHYNHADLEDDAU
Museum educator CPD event - New Tredegar, January 11 2012
Campaign! Make an Impact is an innovative programme that inspires young people to learn about historical campaigns through museum and library collections, and then supports them to develop their own campaigns about issues they feel passionate about.
The Winding House museum, New Tredegar will host an event for museum educators on Wednesday 11 January 2011, 09.30-15.00. This event will provide an opportunity for museum staff involved in education to discover more about Campaign! Make an Impact and to learn how to deliver a successful Campaign! project in partnership with schools and teachers. The event is open to all museum staff involved in education.
By the end of the event participants will:
1. understand the Campaign! Model and how to become involved in the project
2. gain knowledge about available networks and resources
3. learn from the experiences of teachers and young people who have already taken part in the project
Refreshments and lunch are provided. A maximum of 40 places are available To book a place please contact: Dean Veall, Lifelong learning officer, Winding House, New Tredegar, NP24 6EG. Tel 01443 822666, [log in to unmask]
The Welsh Baccalaureate - opportunities for museums, libraries, archives and heritage sites
Monday 9th January 2012 - National Museum Cardiff
Tuesday 10th January 2012 - National Slate Museum, Llanberis
These free seminars will look at how museums, libraries, archives and heritage sites can work with schools and colleges delivering the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification. This seminars will provide information on the WBQ itself, hearing from teachers and development officers and look at examples of good practice currently going on in museums, libraries and archives. In many cases, the seminars will show that MLAs can respond to the WBQ by adapting existing services. The seminars will also see the launch of Good Practice Guidelines for working with MLAs.
The seminars are for staff and volunteers working in museums, libraries, archives and heritage sites who are interested in finding out more about the 14-19 audience in general and the Welsh Baccalaureate in particular. Obviously there will be a Welsh focus but educational staff from other areas may be interested in comparing this scheme with what's available in other parts of the UK.
For further enquiries or to book a place email Robin Clutterbuck [log in to unmask]
MYNEDIAD, ADDYSG A CHYNHWYSIANT CYMDEITHASOL
Somewhereto - turning spaces into stories
Somewhereto is a nationwide project to help young people find the space they need to do the things they love within sport, culture and the arts. Run by Livity, in partnership with Channel 4, the project is funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to help build a lasting cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK. Our aim is to help improve the lives of thousands of young people and create thousands of success stories, today and in the future.
Schools need to learn to take full advantage of museums
The collections and expertise of our world-class museum sector should be at the heart of educational experience, not side-lined. Museum worksheets have a lot to answer for. "Can you spot the cat on the far wall? How many places are set at the table?" When I was a child worksheets in museums were relatively new, a valiant effort to reach out to younger visitors. Trouble is, they turned visits into school-like, formal experiences - art and historic collections viewed through filters of form-filling. Those worksheets became synonymous with museum education for many now holding purse-strings and making policy.
ELUSENNAU A GWIRFODDOLWYR
Commission publishes Strategic Plan for 2012-15
The Charity Commission, the regulator for charities in England and Wales has today published its Strategic Plan for the next three years, up to 2015. Its sets out the Commission’s two key strategic priorities going forward, which are:
- Developing the compliance and accountability of the charity sector
- Developing the self-reliance of the charity sector
The Plan sets out the regulator’s new Vision, Mission and Values, with the Vision being ‘Charities you can support with confidence’. The publication of the Strategic Plan follows the Commission’s extensive Strategic Review consultation which began in October 2010 and involved numerous charities, professional advisors, umbrella bodies and members of the public.
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/RSS/News/pr_strategic_plan_2015.aspx
CYHOEDDIADAU AC YMCHWIL
No well-being from culture?
The Office of National Statistics is consulting on the first set of measures for national well-being. Current proposals do not propose specific measures relating to Arts and Heritage. Hilary Jennings, Associate of the Happy Museum Project, is shocked at the omission of Arts, Culture and Heritage from these measures
ADNODDAU
First World War Centenary Partnership log
Imperial War Museums has launched the First World War (FWW) Centenary mark - a new logo which members of the FWW Centenary Partnership can use as a marker that their events and non-commercial products. FWW Centenary Partnership is an IWM-led initiative for all organisations that are marking the hundred year anniversary of the First World War (2014 - 2018). The partnership already has over 200 national and international organisation members, creating a network which includes museums, archives, libraries, universities, colleges and special interest groups through to broadcasters.
BLOGIAU
UCL Museums and Collections Blog
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/
Museums 2.0
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/
NEWYDDION - CYMRU
Abergavenny exhibition portrays real British Resistance
The Welsh premiere of Resistance, set in an alternative 1944 where the D-Day landings failed, will be staged later in the town where it was filmed. At the same time, the Monmouthshire market town's museum is hosting a British Resistance in Wales exhibition. It has shone the spotlight on the real life GHQ Auxiliary Units and the men who were trained to be Britain's last line of defence. Their story is now being told as part of an exhibition at Abergavenny Museum, with memorabilia from the film also forming part of the displays.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-15804328
Roman ring found on Cefn Brithdir given to Winding House museum
A Roman ring found near Caerphilly has been returned by the British Museum for display in a local museum. The silver treasure, about 2,000 years old, was found on Cefn Brithdir, in the Darran Valley, earlier this year by a man with a metal detector. The British Museum has given the ring to the Winding House Museum at New Tredegar to put on permanent display. Emma Wilson, principal museums and heritage officer for Caerphilly, said they were "immensely pleased" to do so.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-15987772
National Trust leases Tredegar House in Newport
The National Trust has agreed a 50-year lease with Newport council for the Grade I-listed Tredegar House which comes into effect next year. It aims to increase visitor numbers from the current 25,000 a year to 100,000. Justin Albert, the Trust's director for Wales said it was "privileged" to be looking after Tredegar House. "Newport city council has been outstanding in its work to preserve and develop Tredegar House as a tremendous asset for the people of Newport and I wish to thank them for entrusting the property to our care," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-16008856
NEWYDDION - LLOEGR
Museum of Lancashire reopens after £1.7m revamp
The Museum of Lancashire has reopened to the public after being closed for a year for a £1.7m refurbishment. There is free admission for the first 12 months at the revamped museum in Preston, which has a new entrance. It has also added to its selection of galleries, with eight new interactive collections covering Roman times, the Iron Age and Edwardian England. The refurb was paid for with £800,000 of council funding and £920,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15903153
Ashmolean Museum's Egyptian gems seen in new light
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has the best collection outside Cairo of artefacts from the earliest years of Ancient Egypt. But now its new Egyptian galleries will let visitors discover far more about one of the world's great civilisations. The old Egyptian galleries at the Ashmolean Museum were so crowded that there was no space for what will surely become one of the big draws - the mummies newly taken out of storage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15870812
Museums enjoy 10 years of freedom
Exactly 10 years ago, museums and galleries - including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum - scrapped entrance fees as part of a government plan to widen access to the nation's culture and heritage. Visitor numbers have shot up - but who has really benefited, and can free admission survive in an age when government funds are stretched to the limit?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15927593
Manchester's MOSI and London's Science Museum to merge
Manchester's museum of science and industry, MOSI, is to merge with London's National Science Museum, in January. The museum, which was due to lose all government funding by 2015, will join the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) group. Interim chairman Peter Fell said the move would "secure the future of MOSI". The NMSI group also includes York's National Railway Museum and National Media Museum in Bradford.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-16010873
NEWYDDION - YR ALBAN
Paper sculptures appear around Edinburgh in support of museums and libraries
A mysterious Edinburgh paper artist has struck again, this time at the National Museum of Scotland. On November 23 a tiny paper model of a Tyrannosaurus rex emerging from a book was left on the plinth of the giant stag skeleton, near the museum’s own life-sized T.rex. The paper dinosaur is bursting forth from a copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s book The Lost World. A note attached to the sculpture reads “For @NtlMuseumsScot. A gift. Your friends at @edbookfest suggested you might like this. …In support of libraries, books, words, ideas and those places that house our treasures.”
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/art370287
Britain's first Gaelic museum is to open in Stornoway thanks to lottery funding
The first museum in the UK to use Gaelic as its first language is to open on the Isle of Lewis. The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced that it is investing £4.6 million in a new museum and visitor accommodation in Stornoway. It is hoped that the museum will become a key destination and encourage tourism in the Western Isles. The new museum will display the collections of Museum nan Eilean, as well as supporting the work of more than 20 different heritage organisations which have been collecting material relating to Gaelic communities during the past 30 years and who now have unrivalled archives of photographs, documents and memorabilia.
http://tinyurl.com/bwxa8yz
http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/museum/
Elizabeth Bennett & Carol Whittaker
Gwasanaeth Gwybodaeth
Nid yw'r ffaith bod gwybodaeth trydydd parti wedi'i chynnwys yng Ngwasanaeth Gwybodaeth Amgueddfeydd CyMAL yn golygu bod CyMAL yn ei chymeradwyo. Nid yw CyMAL yn derbyn unrhyw gyfrifoldeb am ansawdd digwyddiadau, cynhyrchion neu wasanaethau trydydd parti y sonnir amdanynt yn y Gwasanaeth hwn. Er ein bod wedi gwneud ein gorau i sicrhau bod yr wybodaeth a ddarperir yn gywir, nid yw CyMAL na'r golygydd yn atebol am unrhyw gamgymeriad neu hepgoriad.
Os ydych yn gwybod am unrhyw un a hoffai gael ei ychwanegu i'r rhestr, neu hoffai gael copi caled o'r newyddion, neu os ydych heb fynediad i'r we ac am gopi caled cysylltwch â Carol Whittaker. Byddwch yn dal i dderbyn copi caled os ydych ar y rhestr ddosbarthu presennol.
Bydd fersiwn Cymraeg a Saesneg o'r bwletin yn cael eu dosbarthu ar wahan yn dilyn sylwadau darllenwyr.
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Elizabeth Bennett
CyMAL: Amgueddfeydd Archifau a Llyfrgelloedd Cymru - CyMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales
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