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Museums Association 102Nd Annual Conference 33 AGENDA ITEM NO......."5 CONFERENCE REPORT Corn m ittee Leisure Services Subject 102nd Annual Conference Conference Organiser Museums Association Venue Harrogate International Centre Conference Fee E275 Date(s) 30 September to 4 October 1996 Recommendation Yes 34 Museums Association 42 Clerkenwell Close London EC I R OPA Registered in England wnh limlted liability by guarantee under no 252 I3 I Chanty Reginration no 3 I3024 ri 2 4 JUI 1495 11 June, 1996 Dear Colleague MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE Harrogate International Centre 30 September to 4 October 1996 Please find enclosed a copy of the programme for our next conference. Some of you may have received this in your Museums Journal - if so, I would be grateful if you could pass them on to your elected members. Conference presents an ideal opportunity for museum officers in local authorities to come together and share information particularly now that the broader changes in local authority structure are in place. Conference is also an excellent training opportunity offering the latest research and the expertise of practitioners in the UK and overseas based . around two fundamental areas of museum work - collections and audiences. This might be a good introduction to museum work for your elected member. (If you feel they need it!) If you would likc any more information piease eoiilact me on 0171 250 1836. I look forward to seeing you. erely Director Assistant Director . Director's Secretary 0171-250 1789 Marketing Officer Museums Journal - Museum Practice 0171-250 1834 Marketing Museums Yearbook Conference Seminars 0171-250 1836 Finance Membership 0171-250 1837 Fax to all departments 0171-250 1929 - New approaches to . chance to quiz MPs and i- improving public access to L Improving the financial senior museum people collections, physically and contribution collections - electronically can make through I New research papers on - . publishing and licensing the creative manageme Outreach programmes - of volunteers, the rol museums - Better ways of managing museum trustees, Reaching specific target and administering freelance working in groups collections museums, local author - - spending on museums Audience research , The benefits of strategic museum provision for national and regional youne. unaualified sch - .VI Developing audiences approaches to tackling leavers aged 16-25 Houie and from groups of non- collections care backlogs -- Armouries traditional museum - The work of the Museums visitors The possibility of specifying Association including the The Museums Journal - different standards of care new Code of Conduct for Daily giving you upto-the- Meeting the needs of the for different parts of a Museum People and the minute news from local community collection debate on restitution conference sessions TODAY'S SESSIONS (EXCLUDING THE PRESIDENTIAL Welcome to the Open Meeting for Museums Association into the effects ADDRESS, KEYNOTE Museums Association Freelancers and Small of freelance working on both the ADDRESS AND A session outlining the aims Scale Consultants profession in general and the and activities of the Museums This session provides an freelancers themselves. A full debate RECEPTIONS) ARE OPEN Association. Find out how opportunity for individuals to of these issues will take place on TO DELEGATES AND you can benefa from getting discuss all aspects of freelance Wednesday NON-DELEGATES AND more involved in the work of work. It outlines the results ARE FREE. your professionalassociation. of a survey conducted by the A new Code of Ethics The Disability Discrimination and responsibilities of couriers and MA Mcrnbei-sMeeting The MA has prepared a new Act: Opportunity or advises on what to do when things This provides a forum for Code of Conduct for People Threat go wrong. It also explores the discussion and decision- who Work in Museums. This Museums and Galleries Disability possibilities of sharing resources making about the MA and its session gives you a chance to Assoctotion and producing standards for activities. All members are review it and question the Speakers in this session explain the couriers to work to. For further welcome to bring forward MAis ethics committee on finer details of the Act and what it information contoctlulia Tofolo on ideas for future campaigns. ther ethical issues. Note: the new means for museums. Using case 0171 734 I I06 research or publications. MA 8ode of Conduct is to be put to ' studies from both here and abroad, members only. members at the Annual General they give examples of how to channel The Art of Diplomacy: The Meeting on Wednesday morning. discrimination in a positive way and Work of The Government Art Presidential Address how to enhance the museum Collection Stephen Locke. President experience for visitors with The Government Art Collection of the Museums Association disabilities. For further details contact (GAC) comprises some 15,000 delivers the I996 Presidential Helen Sinclair on 0 19 I 565 0723 historical and modem works of Address. MlsnnaAsoDciarion the introduction art mostly by British artists. of the new routes to ksociate Developing Geological together with several hundred Keynote Address Membership of the MA (AMA). Collections: the Yorkshire works borrowed from private i This meeting will provide an Perspective lenders and other national David Kahn of the Brooklyn opportunity to review the first few GeoIogl~aICuroton Group collections. The GAC lends works Historiwl Society discusses the , months of the new scheme, in A shoh seminar looking at the me ' of aft to government building at techniques adbenefa of particular the introduction of and development of geological home and abroad to promote presentingexhibitions as Continuing Professional collections in Yorkshire. For further national prestige through the community-lead rather than Development (CPD). All those details contact Mandy Edwards on provision of works of art. This collection-lead. His museum has who have been involved will be 0161 275 3804 session provides an insight into worked closely with the local asked to contribute and share the functions and management community to address new topio ideas and experiences - including Sense and Sensibility: A Case of this little known but important in the history and life of their city. new applicants, mentors, and for the Courier collection. For further information presentingexhibitions on the members of the MA education UK Registran Group contact julia Tofo/o on 0 1 7 1 739 strength of the idea rather than committee and staff. This session examines the training I I06 the collection already in place. Effective Marketing value their collections and make interdiscilinary approach. It examines Key Issues - Part One better use of them. They look at whether or not current collection Attracting Audiences This is the first session of a two-part using collections in lively ways: management arrangements support An Introduction to Audiences seminar miningmarketing in museums. maximising their financial contribution or hinder such an approach. For Speakers from outside the museum A panel of speakers debate the key issues and strategies for making better further detoils contactjonet Owen on industry address different aspects involved in museums developingand provision for collections on a 01 16 2523976 of audience development. They sustaining their audiences. Delegates then national basis. consider providing services to attract form smaller groups to discuss possible We Can Work It Out: new types of audiences: ways of solutions to present in part two. Levels of Care, Levels of Use Organisation for Museum making audiences more involved: Core of Collections forum Co-operation and 5 buildingaudience loyalty and long- Museums and Visitors with This session considers what criteria to Development term relationships to encourage Special Needs use when deciding the level of care Museum Professionals Group repeat contact. Speakers describe projects at the for an object. Should decisions be Speakers look at the collaborative HunterianArt Gallery in Glasgow and based ,on the requirements of the work between museums to share U The Geography of the Science Museum in London which object - or the constraints of storage and develop existing collections. Curatorship have catered or people with special and display conditions?for further They discuss current practices This session explores the potential needs. They describe the exciting new details contoctlane Arthur on 01527 and look at the possible ii offered by new technology. It worlds that have opened up to their 872258 development of a regional strategy considers how ordinary people museum as a result. for museums. This is followed by can actively intervene in the Using Museum Collections: the Annual General Meeting for shaping and creation of the museum An Interdisciplinary the MPG. For further detoils-on 0 product through the use of Perspective the session contoct Sue Ashworth technology. Speakers consider how Valuing Collections Society of Museum Archoeologists on 01524 64637 and for further this has expanded the nature of An lnaoduction to Collections This session considers the implications detoils on the AGM contoctjon Fma curatorship. Speakers consider how museums can for museums of moving towards an 0 I476 68783 . - . __._--- -. -I._,-^ -- This session investigates the issue and In Trust service can be provided in a small considers the MA's proposal of anation- This examines the background independent museum without Effective Marketing wide system under which museums
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