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Newsletter SPRING 2013 FOIM Newsletter - Spring 2013 The Friends of the Ipswich Museums Newsletter SPRING 2013 we look forward Our cover celebrates the return of Constable’s paintings of his parents’ garden to the Wolsey Gallery to promote the past images © Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service 1 FOIM Newsletter - Spring 2013 The Friends of the Contents Ipswich Museums Editor’s Notes -----------------------3 Newsletter Legacies ------------------------------3 Chairman’s Letter -------------------4 is published three times a year and Peter Berridge’s Column ----------8 distributed free to all members. The Focus Group Invitation----------- 10 FOIM was set up in 1934 to support Friends Events --------------------- 11 the work and development of the Ipswich Museums: Ipswich Museum in Friends News----------------------- 12 the High Street, Christchurch Mansion Ipswich Museum on WEB------- 16 and the Ipswich Art School Gallery. Volunteering Opportunity -------- 17 Since April 2007 the Ipswich Museums A visit to China --------------------- 18 have been managed as part of the Our Cover Picture ----------------- 20 Colchester and Ipswich Museum Recent Acquisitions--------------- 22 Service. A new portrait of Henslow ------- 24 Friends continue to provide financial We need a Secretary ------------- 26 support to the Ipswich Museums as Corporate Members ------------- 26 well as acting as volunteers. The The Committee--------------------- 27 Friends run outings, talks and other events for their members. Membership Information--------- 27 Advertisements 5, 6, 7, 17, 19 The Friends provide guided tours of the Mansion and Museum, including free Peeps into the Past at the Our advertisements are all from Mansion throughout most of the year. Corporate members. Tours for groups can be booked by Please support them. contacting the Mansion (01473 433554). Have you visited our website: www.foim.or.uk and our facebook page FOIM is a member of the British www.facebook.com/Ipswich museums? Association of Friends of Museums and the Ipswich Arts Association. We use our website to advertise events notified too late to be included in the Contributions to the Summer 2013 Newsletter should be sent to the editor Newsletter by 1 June 2013. Do you want to receive Museum Service events’ listings by post? This can be arranged if you contact Mary Halliwell, 31 Queens Road, Felixstowe IP11 7QU 2 FOIM Newsletter - Spring 2013 FOIM is a subscribing member of the Ipswich Arts Association, please visit their website www.ipswich-arts.org.uk for further information. Editor’s Notes As usual we enclose the papers for the I was very pleased to receive a final annual general meeting with this message from Peter Berridge who will Newsletter. The AGM will be on 9 April in be leaving us at the end of March. We the re-opened Wolsey Gallery with the have seen a lot of progress during his Constable and Gainsborough paintings stay and wish him well for the future. rehung. Bill Seaman, the recently This is a 28 page newsletter with plenty appointed Manager of Colchester and of Friends News as well as interesting Essex Museums, will speak to us during articles about our latest acquisitions from the meeting. Philip Wise (pages 22-23), a trip to In March the Museum Service has China by Bob Entwistle and Joan Lyall invited the Friends to come and express (pages 18-19) and a new portrait of John their views about the future plans for Stevens Henslow (pages 24-25) from Ipswich Museum and also to come along local artist John Williams. to the Private View of the newly rehung In recent months the Mansion Guides Wolsey Gallery. You will find details on have been delighted to see more objects pages 10-11. on display in the Mansion. They were Since the last Newsletter the Friends also pleased to hear that their request have arranged two walking tours of for more costume displays will soon be Woodbridge and a Summer Party in the satisfied (see page 17). There will also Mansion. Although I have lived in be an opportunity for a few Friends to Felixstowe for nearly 40 years I know help set up the displays. very little about Woodbridge and look Mary Halliwell forward to taking part in one of these events. Editor Legacies In 2011 we received the good news that Vera Gwendoline Mary Auckland had remembered the Friends in her Will with a generous legacy. We now have the funds and the Museum service is of course aware of the gift: we expect to be able to announce shortly exactly what this donation has allowed us to acquire. If you too would like to remember FoIM in your Will you can be assured that any gift we receive will be used to enhance or conserve the collections of the Ipswich Museums. If you are considering a legacy, please speak to your solicitor. Our registered charity number is: 275527. 3 FOIM Newsletter - Spring 2013 Chairman’s Letter I am delighted to report that we have the redevelopment of Norwich Castle. several interesting events planned for His experience includes heading a team 2013, and all are booking well. The visit developing entrepreneurial opportunities to the newly reopened William Morris for museums to meet growing public Gallery, Walthamstow and Chelmsford expectations in a context of reduced Museum has already taken place and public funding. was a great success: two contrasting I want to take this opportunity to thank venues. There is a short report of the Peter Berridge for his work in bringing visit on page 14. the joint service into operation and for There was such a long waiting list for leading the museums so professionally. the Yorkshire holiday that we managed During the process of amalgamation he to secure extra bedrooms and a much ensured that the Friends’ committee was larger coach rather than disappoint kept fully informed, explaining the way many members. Jean Attenborrow is the service would work. He was involved now dealing with bookings while in the acquisition of the old Art School Barbara Cole continues with building, a project that is now gathering arrangements for talks and social momentum. Some of you will remember events. that Peter gave us a talk one evening We have an excellent series of talks – about his archaeological work in do sign up if you have not done so by Morocco with which he has been now. involved for some years. We wish him well. The changes at the Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service (CIMS) seem Over the last months the staff have been to be settling down. You may have heard under considerable pressure and have by now that Bill Seaman has been still made time to meet up with me and appointed to succeed Peter Berridge as the committee to discuss ways in which Head of Service. He will talk to us at the we can work more closely together to AGM. I met Bill at a number of events the benefit of the service. We have over the years while he worked on a established clearer lines of development programme for museums communication to facilitate our role as in the East of England. We look forward advocates as well as fund raisers. to working with him and wish him every I write elsewhere in this Newsletter success. about our first Annual Dinner (page 13) His most recent job has been Assistant Comments afterwards have been very Head of the county-wide Norfolk encouraging. The committee will be Museums Service. His first museum role discussing how this event might become was as Head of Public Events at The a fixture in our calendar. Natural History Museum. Developing his Blue Skies Ideas Meeting museum experience he moved into On 16 January our Vice-Chairman Jerry management at museums in Colchester Latham hosted and facilitated a meeting and Birmingham while taking an MA in at which we had an opportunity to Museum Studies. He project managed 4 FOIM Newsletter - Spring 2013 discuss strategy and how the Friends Museum Development project might develop and face the future. It was There are three significant consultations a productive meeting with lots of new being carried out: ideas for consideration. 1) Audience Development which will New members involve consultation with a wide As usual you will read the names of spectrum of groups, including FoIM. I those who have joined us since the last suggested that museum service invites Newsletter (see page 12). Several are as all members to a meeting with the a result of another new member giving specialist consultants. (see 10). FoIM memberships as Christmas 2) Campus Master Plan to give an presents – the ideal gift. overview of the Museum estate. Staff will Annual General Meeting 9 April 2013 be making a series of visits to new and The AGM is announced in separate established museums and galleries papers accompanying this Newsletter around the country to inform the including my Chairman’s Report. I do discussion. A leading architectural firm hope that as many members as possible will be appointed to prepare a master will join us for a review of the year and to plan. support the election of the committee. Bill Seaman will give a short presentation and we will also have an update on the service by a senior staff member. It promises to be an interesting evening and a good social event. The meeting will be held in the Wolsey Art Gallery at the Mansion newly reopened after considerable investment by IBC. This will give members a chance to see the new picture hang and how the gallery has been considerably improved. Emma Roodhouse will explain the ideas behind the new displays. I understand that IBC has secured a further £11,000 investment in the gallery and that it will have a new induction loop and PA system.
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