TMAG Annual Report 2012-13 1 Statement of Compliance Tasmanian Museum and Art Board of Trustees Gallery
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2012-13 Contents Statement of compliance 2 Appendix 1 30 The Foundation of the Tasmanian Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 2 Museum and Art Gallery Board of Trustees 3 Appendix 2 31 Chairman’s report 4 The Friends of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Director’s report 6 Appendix 3 32 Organisational structure 8 The TMAGgots Outcome 1 10 Appendix 4 34 A redeveloped museum and art gallery with Acquisitions facilities that provide a new era of engagement with Tasmania’s significant collections Appendix 5 48 Centre for Learning and Discovery statistics Outcome 2 16 The State Collection managed to national Appendix 6 49 standards, and enhanced through strategic Collection and research statistics research and growth opportunities Appendix 7 50 Outcome 3 17 External financial support Provide audiences with engaging and inspiring Appendix 8 50 experiences through exhibitions, programs, Research supervision research and knowledge sharing Appendix 9 51 Outcome 4 23 Lectures and presentations The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is recognised as a centre of research excellence Appendix 10 52 Research publications and articles Outcome 5 25 The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is Appendix 11 54 a place that engages with and is respectful External duties of Tasmanian Aboriginal Culture Financial report 55 Outcome 6 27 Independent Auditor’s Report 56 Increased community, philanthropic Statement of Comprehensive Income 58 and volunteer support Statement of Financial Position 59 Statement of Cash Flows 60 Outcome 7 28 Statement of Changes in Equity 61 Embracing contemporary business practices Notes to and forming part of the Financial and organisational effectiveness Statements for the year ended 30 June 2013 62 Images: Front cover: Guests arriving for the official Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery reopening, 13 March 2013 Back cover: Central Gallery Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery © State of Tasmania November 2013 ISSN 0311-3663 Disclaimer The information contained within the Annual Report 2012-13 is considered to be correct at the time of publication. Images used within this publication remain the property of the copyright holder. Images courtesy of: Simon Cuthbert, Miguel de Salas, Jean Jarman, Lucia Rossi and Peter West. An electronic version of this report is available at www.tmag.tas.gov.au/about_us/annual_reports TMAG Annual Report 2012-13 1 Statement of compliance Tasmanian Museum and Art Board of Trustees Gallery To His Excellency the Governor, Vision The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) Members of the Board of Trustees To nurture the museum’s collection as the cultural heart was established by the Royal Society of Tasmania in Chairman In accordance with Section 7 of the Tasmanian Museum of Tasmania. 1848 and continued by the Tasmanian Museum Act Sir Guy Green AC KBE CVO Act 1950, the Trustees of the Tasmanian Museum and 1950. The Trustees of TMAG are collectively a body Royal Society of Tasmania appointment Art Gallery have great honour in submitting their Annual Purpose corporate in which is vested the full management and Report on the activities of the Tasmanian Museum and To collect, conserve, research and create knowledge superintendence of the TMAG, the power to acquire Board Members Art Gallery for the year ending 30 June 2013. and to engage with, educate and inspire the community and dispose of property and an obligation to do all Dr AV (Tony) Brown until December 2012 about our world. other acts, except employ persons, proper to make Royal Society of Tasmania appointment In submitting this report, we would like to sincerely TMAG best serve the public as a museum. thank the many people who have contributed to the Positioning Professor Jim Reid from February 2013 operation of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Our stories encourage reflection, stimulate Staff are appointed or employed subject to the State Royal Society of Tasmania appointment during 2012-13, and in particular those who worked so conversations and inspire new understanding, new Service Act 2000. hard to get the museum ready for our grand reopening thinking and life long learning. Ms Julia Farrell on 15 March 2013. Governor-in-Council Appointment Brand Platforms The Trustees especially wish to thank the Premier and Uniquely Tasmanian Mr Geoff Willis Minister for the Arts, Hon. Lara Giddings, the Foundation We know who we are and have a strong sense of place. Governor-in-Council Appointment of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, The Royal Alderman Dr Peter Sexton Society of Tasmania, the Friends of TMAG, TMAGgots, Curated Diversity Hobart City Council Appointment and the staff and volunteers for their continuing You can expect the unexpected and to broaden your contribution to the museum’s growth and development. perspectives. Ms Brett Torossi Governor-in-Council Appointment Museum within a Museum By exploring our place you can experience our history. Ms Penny Clive Governor-in-Council Appointment Distinctive Stories Our stories are engaging and we encourage participation and conversation. Values As an organisation, TMAG is committed to the Departmental values as follows: • Our people matter • We act with integrity • We make a real difference. Objects on display in the Central Gallery display case Thylacine skeletons being prepared for display in the new thylacine gallery 2 TMAG Annual Report 2012-13 TMAG Annual Report 2012-13 3 Chairman’s report This was a watershed year for the Tasmanian We are heartened by the continuing strong support we Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG). After many years of receive from the Premier and Minister for the Arts Lara planning we successfully delivered stage one of the Giddings and the Government of Tasmania, and our redevelopment of the museum. highly valued community of benefactors, friends and supporters. The largest public cultural project in the state, the multi award winning redevelopment heralds a new era in The Trustees and I would also like to acknowledge the already distinguished history of the museum. It and thank the Director, the curators, the staff and has been enthusiastically received by our professional our volunteers who have managed to maintain the peers, our supporters and by the wider community, museum’s programs, exhibitions and operations to with visitation rates since the redevelopment being at the highest standards despite having to work under an all time high. especially demanding circumstances. Sir Guy Green welcomes guests to the official reopening of the museum in March 2013 My fellow Trustees and I are very proud of the In short, 2012-13 was a year in which TMAG splendidly achievements of everyone involved. The leadership and delivered on all its commitments. managerial capacity of the Director, Mr Bill Bleathman, and the commitment and professionalism of his staff The Trustees and I look forward to continuing the and the Planning Steering Group have been critical museum’s role of being in the vanguard of Tasmania’s conditions of the success of the project. cultural renaissance for the benefit of Tasmanians, visitors to Tasmania and scholars everywhere. During the year TMAG’s already substantial collections were further enriched and enlarged by the outstanding donations and acquisitions which are listed in the annex to this report. Sir Guy Green Chairman of Trustees Mr Herbert Dartnell, Sir Guy Green and Mr Jim Spaulding at the Fallow deer (dama dama) on display in the Bond Store handover of Tasman Spaulding’s Polar Medal to TMAG 4 TMAG Annual Report 2012-13 TMAG Annual Report 2012-13 5 Director’s report Installing objects in the Earth and Life gallery Our Land: parrawa, parrawa! Go away! This year has been a most important year in the long The exhibition was curated by Jean Hubert Martin The Friends of TMAG continued to run active programs history of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and served to showcase to a different audience that generate funds supporting the museum. The (TMAG), as stage one of the redevelopment was the enormous quality and breadth of TMAG’s State particular assistance provided by the Friends in funding completed. Collection. Following the closure of the exhibition at several redevelopment initiatives was outstanding. MONA it is scheduled to open at the renowned La This project has been in planning and development for Maison Rouge Gallery in Paris in October 2013. The TMAGgots continued to develop innovative and six years and it is gratifying that the people of Tasmania unpredictable events to showcase different elements of and visitors to our island are now able to benefit from Notwithstanding the redevelopment program, our our organisation to a younger audience. the redeveloped TMAG. curatorial and professional staff continued to undertake research, education and scholarship in a range of areas. It has been a particularly difficult year for the museum As a consequence of the redevelopment most of our in which to operate, caused by the general restrictions public galleries were closed for a large part of the year. The museum also received a number of significant within government. Much has been achieved despite It is pleasing that despite this, more than 240,000 acquisitions, both as donations and purchases which this and I’d particularly like to thank the Secretary of the Dispossessions and Possessions people still managed to visit the museum. highlight the diversity of our State Collection. Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts, Mark Kelleher, for his continuing guidance and The reopening on 15 March 2013 heralded the first A major exhibition and publication on Tasmanian artist strategic support of the museum. public showing of 12 new galleries and over 2000 William Charles Piguenit was also developed within square metres of additional public space, including TMAG and at the conclusion of its display in Hobart I would also like to thank the Chairman and Trustees of the historic Bond Store, one of the most significant will be shown at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, who continue Georgian warehouses in the nation.