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Annual Report 2019–2020 Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Annual Report 2019–2020 Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales The Hon Don Harwin MLC Special Minister of State, and Minister for the Public Service and Employee Relations, Aboriginal Affairs, and the Arts Parliament House Macquarie Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 Dear Minister On behalf of the Board of Trustees and in accordance with the provisions of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2015, we submit for presentation to Parliament the Annual Report of Sydney Living Museums under the statutory authority of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales for the year ending 30 June 2020. Yours sincerely Naseema Sparks am Adam Lindsay Chair Executive Director The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant Head Office historic places, buildings, landscapes and The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street collections. It is a statutory authority of, and Sydney NSW 2000 principally funded by, the NSW Government. T 02 8239 2288 E [email protected] This report is published on our website sydneylivingmuseums.com.au 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2019–20 Contents Acknowledgment of Country 4 Operational Plans 48 From the Chair 6 Placemaking, Curation & Collaboration 48 From the Executive Director 7 Public programs 50 Vision, mission, essence, values and approach 8 Learning programs 53 Highlights 2019–20 10 Exhibitions 54 Performance overview 12 Case study – A Thousand Words 58 Visitation 14 Touring exhibition program 61 Research 64 Corporate governance 18 Collection loans 65 Our museums 19 Resident artist at The Mint 65 Endangered Houses Fund 27 Gardens 67 Board of Trustees 29 Experience & Engagement 68 Trustees 30 Portfolio programs 70 Executive Team 34 Customer service 71 Divisions 36 Case study – Digital engagement 72 Organisational chart 37 Membership 74 Volunteers 38 Volunteers 75 Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of NSW 38 Media and publicity highlights 76 Strategic Plan 39 Philanthropy 78 Corporate partnerships 78 Aboriginal Action Plan 79 Case study – Hyde Park Barracks renewal 40 External activities and engagement 80 Sustainability 82 Financial overview 84 Commercial services 84 Capitalised Maintenance Plan 87 Conservation 87 Caring for SLM places during COVID-19 closures 87 Case study – Key acquisitions 88 Shared services with SARA 92 ICT 92 People and culture 94 Workplace health and safety 96 2 CONTENTS Appendices 100 Program supporters and partners 194 Admission fees and contact details 196 1 Board standing committees 100 Corporate partners 198 2 Associated groups 101 3 Self-generated revenue 101 4 Grants 102 5 Private giving 102 6 Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 103 7 Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994 104 8 Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 104 9 Customer response 107 10 Other statutory requirements 107 11 Human resources 107 12 Budget 115 13 Risk management 115 14 Payment performance 119 15 Consultants 119 16 Our volunteers 120 HHT financial statements 122 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2019–20 Acknowledgment of Country Our museums and places are on Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the First Nations peoples, the traditional custodians, and we pay respect to the Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We understand and appreciate that Aboriginal peoples have deep and continuing cultural attachment to Country and are the rightful interpreters of their history and heritage. In this spirit, Sydney Living Museums values the diversity of Aboriginal connections to the places and landscapes we care for and is informed by the Aboriginal cultural heritage and identity that underpin our museums and places. We acknowledge the continuing impact these sites have on Aboriginal Country. This recognition guides the ways in which we create contemporary conversations and experiences at each of our sites. Eel Festival. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY 5 ANNUAL REPORT 2019–20 From the Chair Naseema Sparks AM Community, connection and impact As it has for all of us, the past 12 months for Sydney Living SLM also launched the audience-led exhibition A Thousand Museums (SLM) has had its fair share of highs and lows Words, which was intended to open at the Museum of – from the triumphant reopening of the UNESCO World Sydney in May, but through the creativity and efforts of Heritage-listed Hyde Park Barracks in February 2020, to the SLM and SARA staff, launched first as a groundbreaking forced closure of all of our museums and exhibitions a little digital exhibition. under a month later due to a global pandemic. In this country, we have so much to learn from our unique However, the COVID-19 restrictions do not appear to have history. We must continue to invest, continue to be bold and diminished the appetite for access to art and culture. creative, in order to create a ‘future for our past’ – one that generations to come can embrace and experience. This time has afforded SLM and our partners at the State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales There were some changes to the Board of Trustees during (SARA) the opportunity to reimagine our engagement with the past year. In 2020 we welcomed Philip Bacon am audiences and reflect on the future of our partnership. and Craig Ritchie as trustees, and we farewelled Louise This period of reflection culminated in the announcement of McElvogue after her third term concluded in March. I would Community, connection and impact as the new vision that like to thank Louise for her wise words and sound advice as will inform the creative and curatorial process for SLM and a member of the Audit & Risk Committee and as a valued SARA for the rest of 2020. contributor to the Board. I would like to congratulate Executive Director Adam Lindsay Finally, I would like to acknowledge the continued support and all staff from both SLM and SARA for their collaboration, received from the NSW Government and the Minister for innovation and nimble navigation during the past year. This the Arts, the Hon Don Harwin MLC. Thank you, Minister, difficult period has shown the strengths of our partnership, for championing SLM. displaying the best of what we can achieve together for the At this difficult moment in history, I look forward to the benefit of our audiences. innovation, connections and cultural impact we will foster In the last few months alone, we have collaborated to deliver together in the year ahead, and to welcoming visitors to the world-class Hyde Park Barracks renewal project, using our in-person and virtual exhibitions and experiences transformative technology to create an engaging and during 2020–21. immersive audience experience. This project has received international acclaim for museum reimagining. The renewed Hyde Park Barracks now offers visitors an extraordinary living record of early Australia and a glimpse into the daily lives of convicts, as well as immigrant and asylum women in the 19th century. As a 21st-century experiential museum, it deeply engages audiences with the personal stories of individuals and communities, including First Nations people, who were impacted by this site. Naseema Sparks am, Chair Above and opposite Naseema Sparks am; Adam Lindsay. Photos © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums 6 FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR From the Executive Director Adam Lindsay The past 12 months has been a challenging but enormously In February the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hyde rewarding time for Sydney Living Museums (SLM), along Park Barracks reopened to the public after undergoing a with our partner institution the State Archives and Records 12-month transformation of visitor experience, interpretation Authority of New South Wales (SARA). and facilities. The renewed museum delivers audiences an innovative and technologically groundbreaking experience This year SLM, like cultural institutions around the world, that truly embodies SLM’s strategic vision to create a ‘living faced uncertainty and inevitable change. When SLM’s sites future for the past’. were forced to close to the public in March due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, effectively withdrawing all physical This project drew expertise from each corner of the access to and interaction with our collections and properties, organisation, from heritage conservation, capital works, we immediately re-examined the objectives of our enabling curatorial interpretation, exhibitions, programs, education, legislation and the expectations of our audiences. In doing marketing, ICT and digital, through to our incredible front- so, and by adapting expeditiously to the circumstances we of-house staff, much-loved volunteers and every staff found ourselves in, we continued to exceed in our delivery member in between. for both. I would like to acknowledge the Hon Don Harwin MLC, The first of July 2020 marked 12 months of partnership with Minister for the Arts, for his continued support and advocacy SARA. The successes and benefits of the partnership have for SLM and SARA throughout this year. Thank you, Minister. been evident in so many of our achievements this year: in To our Board, Chair and Trustees, thank you for welcoming particular, the combined expertise of our dedicated staff and me warmly to SLM and for your sage guidance during this the expansive collections of both institutions in the delivery of turbulent but transformative period; your passion for and the exhibition A Thousand Words. commitment to SLM are evident and very much appreciated. The central philosophy of this exhibition was a bold one, Finally, I want to congratulate the SLM staff, present and founded in the belief that history belongs to everyone past, our family of donors, members and supporters, and because we are all living it as every moment fades into the our partners, old and new, on a fantastic year. Thank you all next.
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