News Update for London's Museums

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E-update for London’s Museums – 05 January 2021

Happy New Year! We at London Museum Development hope that you had a wonderful Christmas break and that you enjoyed the holidays.

Unfortunately England has now entered into another lockdown. Therefore museums and galleries must remain closed to the public. This lockdown is scheduled to last for at least 7 weeks, with measures to be reviewed during half-term week. Any relaxation would likely not come into effect before 22 February. You can get a full overview of the restrictions for this lockdown on the Gov.uk website.

Today (05 January) the Chancellor announced a related £4.6bn relief package for UK retail, hospitality and leisure sectors. Businesses in those sectors of the economy will receive grants of up to £9,000, depending on their rateable value. This help is in addition to the furlough scheme being extended until the end of April. You can find more information on the Gov.uk website. Further details on how to apply should be published soon by government.

Arts Council England has released further information about the second round of the Culture Recovery Fund (CRF). The programme aims to support cultural organisations from April – June 2021 as they transition back to a viable and sustainable operating model. Accredited museums can apply to this fund, with £25,000 being the minimum grant amount you can apply for. It isn’t possible to apply for more than £1 million in grants if you are a for-profit organisation or more than £3 million in grants if you are a non-profit organisation, local authority or university. These limits include any money that has been received in the previous round of CRF, including grants delivered by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England and the British Film Institute. Applications for the second round open on midday Wednesday 06 January, with a deadline of midday Tuesday 26 January. You can find all of the information about the grants on Arts Council’s website. You can find the full guidance here, including eligibility.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund will also be distributing a further £36m through the Culture Recovery Fund to organisations in England, in partnership with Historic England. Non accredited museums can apply to this fund, with grants of between £10,000 and £3m to support organisations. The fund will be open for applications from 7 January 2021 and you can apply any time from then until 26 January 2021. You will be able to find the full information, and how to apply, on their website on 7 January.

If you are working or volunteering in a heritage organisation in the UK, you have the opportunity to secure up to £10,000 to develop and launch a new enterprising idea with the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s ‘Steps to Sustainability’. This opportunity will provide a pathway for 60 heritage organisations across the UK to be ambitious, forward thinking and deliver exciting new projects. Organisations from London will be able to apply through Round 2, which opens in January 2021. You can find further information here.

Arts Council England’s relaunched National Lottery Project Grants have been designed to help fund organisations, creative practitioners and freelancers as quickly as possible. New supplementary guidance for museums can be found on their website. In addition, from 5 October until March 2021, NPOs will be eligible to apply to National Lottery Project Grants for activities over £15,000. Further details about the National Lottery Project Grants can be found below along with information about a refresher event, hosted by Sue Barnard, Senior Relationship Manager and Mirka Kotulicova, Relationship Manager, Museums from the London Visual Arts & Museums team at ACE London. The refresher event, on Tuesday 12 January, will cover Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants and how these can help deliver museum activities. You can find out more information and book your place through Eventbrite.

We have a save the date for an event on Wednesday 27 January ‘Keeping on, Keeping on! London museums discussion forum about strategies to manage and adapt during Covid’. We also have a number of training sessions open for bookings in our Strong and Safe programme, including ‘Building Your Personal Resilience’ and ‘Community Engagement During Covid’. In our Digital Training programme, we have sessions including ‘An Introduction to Live Streaming’ and ‘Understanding Online Audiences’. You can find more of our training advertised below.

We have new video resources on our YouTube channel. These include recordings of sessions such as ‘Podcasting for Museums’ and tutorials including ‘Creating a digital 360 tour of your museum’, and ‘Video Editing’. We also have recordings of training sessions such as, ‘Planning for Alternative Futures’ and a series of training sessions on using social media. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and to click the notification button to be notified of when we release new videos.

We will continue to offer one-to-one advice to museums from their local MDO and specialists on Organisational Health, Audiences, Digital Technologies and Collections. You can find the support you need on this page.

1. Sector News: National Lockdown; Culture Recovery Fund; Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage; £4.6bn relief package; Disposals procedures and Accreditation; ACE, looking back on 2020; Furlough Scheme; After Brexit guidance; Arts Council Project Grants & Museums; MA open letter on Tier 3 restrictions; Bow Street Police Museum; Government redefines treasure; Culture Restart Toolkit; 'Embracing Agile' Webinar Series; Redundancy Hub; Culture at Risk; DCMS Coronavirus Bulletin

2. Funding and Funding Support: National Lottery Project Grants; Culture Recovery Fund; Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage; Repayable Finance Round Two; Business Grants; Steps to Sustainability; Covid-19 Archives Fund; ACE Thriving Communities Fund; AIM Hallmarks Awards; AIM Pilgrim Conservation Care Grants; Digital Collaboration Fund; Crowdfunding for MA Institutional Members; Weston Culture Fund; Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund; Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund; National Lottery Community Fund; Pay it Forward platform; Trusts and Foundations for London

2 Museums resource

3. Training, advice and resources: An Introduction to Live Streaming; An Introduction to Rights Management; Understanding online audiences; Keeping Connected; Building Your Personal Resilience; Unwelcome surprises; Putting on a show; Resources for planning for post Covid re-opening; Equality Diversity and Inclusion Resources; Ticketing resource; ACE Resources on Government and Wider Support

4. Job Vacancies: Community Engagement Lead; Capital Project Manager

5. Heritage in Lockdown: Building Londinium; Charterhouse Display cases for sale; The Charterhouse has launched an online shop

1. Sector News (to top)

National Lockdown Unfortunately England has now entered into another lockdown. Therefore museums and galleries must remain closed to the public. This lockdown is scheduled to last for at least 7 weeks, with measures to be reviewed during half-term week. Any relaxation would likely not come into effect before 22 February. You can get a full overview of the restrictions for this lockdown on the Gov.uk website.

ACE Culture Recovery Fund: Second Round opens this week Arts Council England has released further information about the second round of the Culture Recovery Fund (CRF). The programme aims to support cultural organisations from April – June 2021 as they transition back to a viable and sustainable operating model. Accredited museums can apply to this fund, with £25,000 being the minimum grant amount you can apply for. It isn’t possible to apply for more than £1 million in grants if you are a for-profit organisation or more than £3 million in grants if you are a non-profit organisation, local authority or university. These limits include any money that has been received in the previous round of CRF, including grants delivered by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic England and the British Film Institute. Applications for the second round open on midday Wednesday 06 January, with a deadline of midday Tuesday 26 January. You can find all of the information about the grants on Arts Council’s website. You can find the full guidance here. If your application for a grant takes you over the limits, then you should consider making an application to Repayable Finance. You can apply for Repayable Finance, which is open until 12pm (midday) Thursday 7 January 2021.

NLHF Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage: Second Round opens this week The National Lottery Heritage Fund will also be distributing a further £36m through the Culture Recovery Fund to organisations in England, in partnership with Historic England. Non accredited museums can apply to this fund, with grants of between £10,000 and £3m to support organisations. The fund will be open for applications from 7 January 2021 and you can apply any time from then until 26 January 2021. You will be able to find the full information, and how to apply, on their website on 7 January.

£4.6bn relief package for retail, hospitality and leisure sectors Today (05 January) the Chancellor announced a related £4.6bn relief package for UK retail, hospitality and leisure sectors. Businesses in those sectors of the economy will receive grants of up to £9,000, depending on their rateable value. This help is in addition to the furlough scheme which has been extended until the end of April. These one-off grants to closed businesses will mean up to £4,000 for premises with a rateable value of £15,000 or under, £6,000 for those worth between £15,000 and £51,000, and £9,000 for properties valued at over £51,000. You can find more information on the Gov.uk website – further details should be published soon.

Disposals procedures and Accreditation In such times of increasing financial, time and staffing pressures there have been a few enquiries coming in to the team at London Museum Development concerning potential disposals and how to manage this if the proposed disposal is to be sold, rather than offered to other museums. Arts Council England sets out the risk involved with this approach here:

'On occasion a museum may wish to sell an item for financial reasons. This is a high risk area. In these cases, they should be aware of our statement regarding the unethical sale of objects from collections. If a museum believes they have a legitimate reason to sell an item, they should review the Disposal Toolkit and Appendix and also contact both the Museums Association and their Accreditation Assessing Organisation (ACE Accreditation Manager as on your Award letter) for guidance before making any irreversible decisions.'

So do follow the procedures set out in your own Collections Development Policy (CDP) in the first instance. It is worth checking that yours uses the up to date template even if not being asked currently to assess items for disposal. On the Collections Trust Accreditation resources website, it states that your CDP needs to include 'themes and priorities for rationalisation and disposal; and information about the legal and ethical framework for acquiring and disposing of items', among other items. See the 2014 dated template still.

Then you need to: 1. Use ACE Disposals Toolkit and its Appendix: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/supporting-museums/disposal- collections#section-1 to review the disposal 2. Mention it to your MDO so that we are aware of the potential disposal and can advise you. 3. Contact both Arts Council England at [email protected] and Museums Association's Alistair Brown at [email protected] to discuss before any decisions are made. 4. You may then submit a First Contact form, based on their advice, to be found on the ACE link above. 5. Only proceed once you have a reply from both ACE and MA, you may be asked to complete a Compliance report.

We at London Museum Development are running an excellent session on ‘Responsible Deaccessioning and Disposal’, this Thursday 03 December. Delivered by the Collections Trust, this bitesize session will review the Spectrum 5.0 Deaccessioning and disposal procedure, which can help your museum manage and

4 document the process. You can find further information on our Skills Plus training page.

Arts Council England, looking back on 2020 ACE’s Chief Executive, Darren Henley, has taken a look back on 2020, a year of ‘adversity, compassion and determination’. You can find the full post on ACE’s blog.

Furlough Scheme The furlough scheme has been extended to the end of April 2021. Currently the government will extend furlough payments at the original 80%, up to a maximum of £2,500 per employee. Employers will only need to cover pension and National Insurance contributions during the month of November, but can top up the remaining 20% of their staff salaries if they wish. To be eligible for this extension, employees must have been on the payroll by 30 October 2020, but they do not need to have been furloughed before that date. Workers who were made redundant in advance of the planned end of the furlough scheme on 31 October can be rehired under the current furlough extension. The relevant section is 2.4 in the policy paper which can be found here.

Arts, Culture and Heritage Sector after Brexit guidance Now that the UL has left the EU, the government has guidance for those working in the arts, culture and heritage sector from 01 January 2021. You can find the guidance on the gov.uk website.

Arts Council Project Grants & Museums Tuesday 12 January, 2pm-3pm Sue Barnard, Senior Relationship Manager and Mirka Kotulicova, Relationship Manager, Museums from the London Visual Arts & Museums team would like to invite museum colleagues to a session on Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants (ACPG) and how these can help deliver museum activities. ACPG is an open access fund for £1,000 - £100,000 and is able to support applications from accredited museums, individuals working with accredited museums, subject specialist networks and key funders of museums. The presentation & Q&A in January will address the fund’s eligibility, types of funded activity, application elements as well as examples of successful grants for museum projects. There will be a Q&A towards the end, too. The aim of the session is to increase confidence of museums and museum practitioners to apply to ACPG and see how Project Grants can work for them. It will also serve as a useful refresher for those who might have applied in the past. For any access requirements, please get in touch with Mirka on: [email protected]. The reference documents for this fund can be found here (specific museum info-sheet) and here (the key programme guidance, see Step 2: Read the Guidance). You can find out more information and book your place through Eventbrite.

Government guidance on volunteering Following the announcement of a national lockdown, the government has updated its guidance for volunteers and volunteering. Whilst government considers volunteering to be a “reasonable excuse” for leaving home, it is important that organisations should think hard about whether or not volunteer activities are crucial and necessary during this period. You can find the full guidance on the Gov.uk website.

Keeping on, Keeping on!

5 London Museums discussion forum about strategies to manage and adapt during Covid Wednesday 27 January, online event: 2 – 4pm This event will give you a chance to listen to presentations from colleagues, outlining how they are currently coping with the ongoing Covid crisis and to take part in an online discussion to share your thoughts, concerns and ideas with colleagues. Confirmed speakers: Dr Cindy Sughrue, OBE, Director, Charles Dickens Museum of London. Dave Green, Director, Florence Nightingale Museum. Emma Roberts, Tech Champion, e-commerce and merchandising, Digital Culture Network. Liz Power, Director, London Museum of Water and Steam. Vicky Carroll, Director, Museum of Freemasonry. Bookings for this event will open next week via the e-update for Monday 11 January.

#HeritageTreasures Day - Monday 11 January 2021 The National Lottery Heritage Fund is kicking off 2021 with its annual Heritage Treasures day on social media on Monday 11 January to showcase everything that is great about the heritage sector, and to acknowledge the fantastic work of the organisations they fund. You can find further information on their website.

Museums Association open letter on England’s Tier 3 restrictions “In light of the introduction of new Covid restrictions in England on 2 December 2020, the Museums Association has written the following letter to the UK Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock, requesting that he review the decision to close museums and galleries in Tier 3 areas.” You can read the full letter on the MA’s website.

Bow Street Police Museum to open early this year The museum will tell the story “of the Bow Street Runners and the Metropolitan Police officers who patrolled the streets of Covent Garden in their footsteps. From eighteenth century crime fighting to the closure of one of London's first police stations in 1992, explore the important and fascinating tales of Bow Street and its unique links with police history.” You can find out more on their website and on the Guardian.

Government redefines treasure to increase protection for archaeological finds More of the important archaeological finds will be protected for the public under plans to develop a new definition of treasure. The move is one of the biggest changes to the Treasure Act since it came into effect nearly 25 years ago. You can find more information about the announcement and proposed changes on the Gov.uk website.

Culture Restart Toolkit The Culture Restart Toolkit is designed to help cultural organisations, including museums - at all stages of reopening - to reactivate and retain visitors. Following our successful After the Interval surveys, our audience tracker and pre and post-visit surveys, which are free to use, enable you to build positive sentiment, understand visitor needs and rapidly respond to any issues. You'll have access to your survey responses in real time, and will also be contributing to a sector-wide national data set, building up a rich understanding of visitor and audience needs across the country - shared regularly with all participating organisations. Find out more and sign up today: indigo-ltd.com/culture-restart-toolkit

London Museums Group 'Embracing Agile' Webinar Series

6 London Museums Group (LMG) has announced their Embracing Agile webinar series running through Spring 2021. This series of webinars will explore practical examples of how museums, galleries and heritage sites can apply agile concepts to care for their collections and meet visitor needs. Session 1, Transforming The Way We Operate’ is now open for booking. Get your free ticket here. 2020 was a difficult year for the heritage sector. Many museums, galleries and heritage sites have had to review their organisations and use agile principles to redesign their operating models to ensure that they remain open, relevant and viable. Joe Sullivan, LMG Chair, will explore how museums are transforming the way they operate with our panel Daniel Pett (Fitzwilliam Museum) and Rebecca Dalley (Shuttleworth Collection) where they will explore the lessons learned and discuss to what extent they think the changes they implemented will be maintained. It is free to join the LMG community - to do so sign up here, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and join our closed Facebook Group to connect with your peers.

Museum Association’s Redundancy Hub The MA has launched a Redundancy Hub, offering support and resources for people going through redundancy. You can find the hub on the MA’s website.

Culture at Risk The Mayor’s Culture at Risk office is working with the culture and the creative industries to ensure those affected by the COVID-19 crisis get the support they need. You can register with them to help them provide you with the right type of support and keep you up to date with news on resources, funds and guidance. You can find the registration information on their website. You will also be able find information on the resources available to the cultural sector, on the same page.

DCMS Coronavirus Bulletin You can find the DCMS Coronavirus Bulletin for 04 January here.

2. Funding and Funding Support (to top)

Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants ACE have now re-opened the National Lottery Project Grants, with a budget of £59.8 million available until April 2021. They have prioritised reopening this programme to help fund independent organisations, creative practitioners and freelancers as quickly as possible. The available grants range from between £1,000 - £100,000, with a number of changes made to the fund - including organisations no longer needing 10% matched funding to apply. Additionally, from 5 October until March 2021, NPOs will be eligible to apply to National Lottery Project Grants for activities over £15,000. You can find further information about all of the changes to the National Lottery Project Grants on their website. ACE has updated the Museums information sheet for the grants, with information for museums looking to apply for funding. ACE says that projects must “involve and benefit at least one Accredited museum, its work and its visitors”. These projects can focus on a wide range of areas such as programming, digital work or touring, but they must involve some element of public engagement. You can find new supplementary guidance for the grants on their website and the updated application guidance here. The grants remain in two streams, under £15,000 and over £15,000, where possible they will notify applicants of the outcome of their application more quickly than the standard turnarounds of six weeks (for applications under £15,000) and 12 weeks (for

7 applications over £15,000). ACE has also updated their helpful FAQ section, covering some of the commonly asked questions regarding the changes to Project Grants. Sue Barnard, Senior Relationship Manager and Mirka Kotulicova, Relationship Manager, Museums from the London Visual Arts & Museums team at ACE London are holding a refresher event on National Lottery Project Grants. The refresher event, on Tuesday 12 January, will cover Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants and how these can help deliver museum activities. You can find out more information and book your place through Eventbrite.

£4.6bn relief package for retail, hospitality and leisure sectors Today (05 January) the Chancellor announced a new £4.6bn relief package for retail, hospitality and leisure sectors. Businesses in those sectors of the economy hardest hit by new lockdown measures will receive grants of up to £9,000. This help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme which has been extended until the end of April. These one-off grants to closed businesses will mean up to £4,000 for premises with a rateable value of £15,000 or under, £6,000 for those worth between £15,000 and £51,000, and £9,000 for properties valued at over £51,000. You can find more information on the Gov.uk website – further details should be published soon.

ACE Culture Recovery Fund: Repayable Finance Round Two Arts Council England’s second round of Repayable Finance is open for applications until midday on 07 January. Loans of £1 million or over are available to support costs that are part of a plan to achieve financial sustainability and/or increase organisational resilience. Funding can only cover the period up to 31 March 2022. You can find more information about the repayable finance on ACE’s website.

NLHF ‘Steps to Sustainability - Building a Sustainable Heritage Sector’ If you are working or volunteering in a heritage organisation in the UK, you have the opportunity to secure up to £10,000 to develop and launch a new enterprising idea with the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s ‘Steps to Sustainability’. This opportunity will provide a pathway for 60 heritage organisations across the UK to be ambitious, forward thinking and deliver exciting new projects. Participants will bring a business idea to the programme which they will develop for the duration of the programme and unlock funding of up to £10,000 to enable its success. Organisations from London will be able to apply through Round 2, which opens in January 2021. You can find further information here.

Covid-19 Archives Fund The National Archives’ Covid-19 Archives Fund provides support for short-notice work to secure vulnerable analogue and born-digital records across the United Kingdom. The fund is now open to the benefit of archives at risk that might otherwise be dispersed or lost without intervention. Deadline for applications is 15 January. Find out more on their website.

ACE Thriving Communities Fund The Thriving Communities Fund will support local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCSFSE) projects that bring together place-based partnerships to improve and increase the range and reach of available social prescribing community activities – especially for those people most impacted by COVID-19 and health inequalities. Grants range from between £25,000 - £50,000. Applications open on 23 November and close on 9 January 2021. Further information about the fund can be found on ACE’s website.

AIM Hallmarks Awards Grants of up to £10K available to support projects addressing AIM’s new Tackling Inequality Hallmark. The closing date for this stream is 31 January 2021. You can find out more and apply on their website.

AIM Pilgrim Conservation Care Grants The Pilgrim Conservation Care grants support small to medium sized museums to care for their collections more effectively and efficiently and to meet the standards required for Accreditation. Closing date for next round is 31 March 2021. Find out more and apply on their website.

Digital Collaboration Fund The British Council is now offering grants of up to £50k to organisations in the UK and selected countries overseas to collaborate digitally on international projects. Through a series of grants, we are supporting organisations to devise new virtual ways of working internationally, in turn creating a climate-friendly approach to international collaboration and artistic exchange. For more information, please visit their website.

Crowdfunding for MA Institutional Members The Museums Association has teamed up with Crowdfunder to launch #SupportOurMuseums, a new UK-wide campaign to support museums as they face the huge challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. MA Institutional Members can take part by launching a free crowdfunding campaign. Crowdfunder has waived all

9 their fees, so there’ll be no cost to you and every penny donated will go straight to your museum. Further information can be found on their website.

Weston Culture Fund This £25 million fund is designed to support mid to large scale cultural organisations in the UK to help them restart work, re-engage with audiences, adapt to changed circumstances and generate revenue. The fund is specifically for charitable organisations with a pre-Covid regular annual income of £500,000 or greater. Accredited museums and galleries or museums/galleries working towards accreditation that are not run by local authorities, plus DCMS sponsored museums and galleries are eligible to apply. For further information, please follow this link. Smaller organisations will be able to apply for their regular grants programme via their website.

Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund A new UKRI and MA 'Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund' is being launched this week, offering grants of up to £50,000 for creative digital engagement projects. You can find further information about the fund, and eligibility, on the MA’s website.

Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations require that the Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund (CILNF) be used to support the development of the neighbourhood. The scope of projects that can be funded by the CILNF is wider than that for general CIL funds and includes: - The provision, improvement, replacement, operation or maintenance of infrastructure. - Anything else that is concerned with addressing the demands that development places on an area. You can find out more information about this fund, including how much funding you can apply for and the process of applying, on the City of London website.

National Lottery Community Fund This Government grants scheme prioritises funding projects and organisations supporting communities through the pandemic. Grants available from £300 to £100,000. You can find more information on their website.

Pay it Forward platform Pay it Forward gives Londoners a chance to support their favourite small businesses – from grassroots music venues and community theatres, to independent galleries and fashion studios, and everything in between. Businesses offer customers the option to pay for future goods and services – with no fees or transaction costs. To date, over 740 businesses have signed up, with 112 live campaigns and pledges from over 1,600 Londoners. You can find out more and sign up online.

Trusts and Foundations for London Museums resource London Museum Development has compiled an Excel spreadsheet which highlights a large number of the trusts and foundations which offer funding and support for the museum sector. We began compiling this document before Covid-19, so some of the funds may not be running this financial year. Still, the resource will be incredibly useful when looking for funding streams for your work. You can download the Excel spreadsheet here, along with a number of our other resources.

3. Training, advice and resources (to top)

Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, where we will be posting recordings of the majority of our sessions, and to click the notification button to be notified of when we release new videos. You can view recordings of our past training sessions here and our Tutorial Videos here.

London Museum Development: Digital Training An Introduction to Live Streaming Friday 29 January, 10:50am - 1pm Online, via Zoom Live streaming is a fantastic way to engage with audiences who can’t physically be in the museum, helping to reach more people and engage with them on an interactive and meaningful level. As museums went into lockdown, live streaming became a key resource for engaging our audiences remotely. From live streamed talks, to tours, to events – there have been a number of excellent examples of museums using different platforms to stream to their audiences. In the past, live streaming involved complicated and expensive kit and a certain level of knowhow and expertise. Now, with the advent of live video on social media, or through platforms like Zoom, it’s easier than ever to use this form of engagement. We’ll be looking at how to set-up live streams at three different levels, for three different kinds of budgets - Easy, Intermediate and Advanced. We will talk through the platforms you can use, the equipment you will need and the different audiences you can reach, with some examples from across the sector. You can find out more about the session, and book a place, on our website.

London Museum Development: Digital Training An Introduction to Rights Management Tuesday 23 February, 10:30am - 12pm Online, via Zoom In this bitesize session we will review the Spectrum 5.0 Rights management procedure, which can help your museum manage rights identified in your collection. Managing intellectual property rights is an important aspect of collections management and is becoming increasingly relevant as museums work to get more of their collections online. Delegates will be encouraged to participate by asking questions as well as sharing how they approach the management of rights, for example copyright, at their museum. You can find out more about the session, and book a place, on our website.

London Museum Development: Digital Training Understanding online audiences Friday 12 February, 10:50am - 1:30pm Online, via Zoom This session, delivered by Chris Unitt, will provide an introduction to using digital analytics and user testing within the setting of a museum or gallery. Participants will learn how to collect data and insights using tried and trusted methods, and free and low cost tools. Participants will be able to use this improved understanding of their online audiences to improve communications, website user experience, and more. You can find out more about the session, and book a place, on our website.

London Museum Development: Strong and Safe

11 Keeping Connected: Community Engagement During Covid Wednesday 20 January, 10am – 12pm Online, via zoom This session will help museum and archive managers think about how they can continue to work with communities in a collaborative way during the current pandemic so that they remain relevant, address strategic priorities and record experiences. The training will help delegates to explore community engagement practice and how they can utilise it to bring people together, and enhance their work through effectively staying connected to and working with the audiences they serve during restrictions imposed as a result of COVID-19. You can find out more about the session, and book a place, on our website.

London Museum Development: Strong and Safe Building Your Personal Resilience - Time to look after yourself! Thursday 4th February 2021, 12.30pm until 1.30pm and Thursday 11th February 2021, 12.30pm until 1.30pm Two practical, lunchtime Zoom workshops to refresh your personal resilience, come along to both or either workshops! These interactive on-line workshops will give you some time to look after and refresh yourself, ready for the challenges and changes of the New Year, including the challenges created by COVID-19.They comprise a series of exercises designed to develop your resilience skills, tweak your habitual behaviours and provide techniques that you can use in the future and pass on to your colleagues…like a gym for your resilience! You can find out more about the session, and book a place, on our website.

Regional Collection Care Training Unwelcome surprises? 04 February and 04 March, 10am - 12pm Have you ever considered there may be unrecorded object hazards lurking in your museum's store? Do you worry about knowing what to look for or where to begin? Does the thought of discovering object hazards in your store fill you with trepidation? If so, these introductory level on-line courses will help you become more proficient in a range of commonly encountered hazards, recognise the types of objects with which they are often associated, understand the kinds of risks arising from using these hazardous objects, and know what to do and what not to do with your collections.Your tutor for both courses will be Larry Carr.

04 February 2021 from 10.00 – 12.00 Session 1 - Collections hazards and where to find them In part one of this course you will learn about a range of commonly encountered hazards in museum objects. Various examples will be shown and discussed.

04 March 2021 from 10.00 – 12.00 Session 2 - Staying safe with collections hazards In part two of this course you will develop your knowledge of commonly encountered hazards in museum collections. The focus will be on how to evaluate and manage risks and decide what to do and what not to do with hazardous objects. There will be ample opportunity for general questions during both sessions, but if you have queries about specific issues, we would ask that you submit them in advance.

12 If you would like a booking form for either or both of these courses, please email Libby on [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Regional Collection Care Training Putting on a show 18 February 2021: first part 10.00 – 12.00 ; second part 14.30 – 16.00 Course tutor: Clare Reynolds ACR, paper conservator, Museum of London. Nearly every museum exhibition involves paper in its infinite and varied forms (books, newspapers, letters, postcards, posters, drawings). On this online course you will learn how to put them on display safely and avoid the pitfalls many have fallen into. There will be hands-on practical elements to this course, so it has been split into two parts across the day, enabling participants to have time between sessions to try out the practical elements before joining in for the afternoon where they can follow along with Clare again. Participants will be sent a kit of the materials and equipment used during the course beforehand, so that they can fully participate in the practical elements of the course and continue to use them, with their newly acquired skills, in their institution thereafter. As this course will involve the delivery of kits to applicants, it is only open to staff and volunteers from London region museums. If you would like a booking form or any further information about this course please email Libby on [email protected].

Resources for planning for post Covid re-opening London Museum Development has created a helpful PDF to use when planning your re-opening, post lockdown, which signposts useful links to resources and articles around re-opening. We will be regularly updating this resource, as more information about how the lockdown will be lifted is published, so do refer back to it as your planning develops. You can find the resource on our ‘Resources’ page.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Resources The West Midlands Museum Development have released a number of resources to support individuals and museums with equality, diversity and inclusion. You can find these resources on their website.

Digital Culture Network - Ticketing resource Myself (Alec Ward, Digital and Communications for London Museum Development), and South West Museum Development’s Digital Engagement Officer, Rachel Cartwright, identified the need for a resource to help museums navigate options for online ticketing and timed entry. We reached out to Nick Kime, Digital Culture Network Tech Champion (ticketing specialist) who has created a museum specific resource. A must-read if you are choosing an online system and what considerations to make when thinking about reopening, managing visitor numbers and personal information collection and storage for NHS Test and Trace. Download the resource. To find out more about how the Digital Culture Network can support you please visit www.artscouncil.org.uk/dcn.

ACE Resources on Government and Wider Support Arts Council England have a central resource setting out available Government and wider support for organisations and individuals relevant to the cultural sector. These pages are continually updated and are produced in consultation with DCMS.

13 4. Job Vacancies (to top)

Community Engagement Lead East End Women’s Museum To connect us with residents and community groups in Barking and Dagenham and Newham, ensuring the new building is welcoming, exciting and relevant to local audiences. Contract: 15 months, with possibility of extension. Salary: £30,000 p.a. pro rata Closing date: 19 January, 6pm To apply: For more information, please visit their website.

Capital Project Manager East End Women’s Museum To deliver the building project, taking the project from initial definition phase right through design phases to completion. Salary: £33,000 p.a. Closing date: 19 January, 6pm To apply: For more information, please visit their website.

5. Heritage in Lockdown (to top)

Building Londinium London’s Roman Amphitheatre and Billingsgate Roman House and Baths challenge you to make a model Roman building over the Christmas holidays. You could make a temple, a townhouse, a villa, a bathhouse, a Forum-Basilica, an amphitheatre, a theatre – whatever you want. You could make your model out of paper or card, by junk modelling, using Lego or even Minecraft or Animal Crossing. Look out for more hints and tips online at https://www.ourcitytogether.london/do/building-londinium. Everyone can take part, it's a challenge for children and adults alike and you can work as team or make it a solo project. We’ll be sharing our own creations before Christmas to give you some ideas. Share your works in progress and finished models using the hashtag #BuildingLondinium on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok, or email them to us at [email protected]. The best models will be featured in an online exhibition on social media in the New Year. Please share with your audiences if you can. We can’t wait to see your models!

Charterhouse Display cases for sale The Charterhouse have 3 display cases for sale, for collection only. 3 x Click Netherfield Cases for sale: Case 1 200cm (L) x (90cm (D) x 141cm (H), Case 2 220cm (L) x 80cm (D) x 125cm (H), Case 3 200cm (L) x 80cm (D) x 127cm (H). Please contact Gabriella for further information: [email protected]

The Charterhouse has launched an online shop The Charterhouse has launched a new online shop, stocking “a range of books, souvenirs and bespoke gifts to suit every age and pocket.” Check it out on their website.

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