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Issue - meetings
Museum Update Report
Meeting: 06/09/2021 - Museum Committee (Item 4)
4 Museum Update Report PDF 2 MB
(Damian Etheraads, Museum and Cultural Development Manager)
Minutes:
Museum and Cultural Development Manager presented to the committee on the museum’s work since the last formal meeting. The Museum re-opened in May 2021, with quarter one visitors at just under 1500. The What’s in the box? project is coming to a completion and has been largely successful. The work on the Archives Revealed Scoping Grant is also coming to an end. The digital museum is continuing until the end of the year. It is focusing younger people, older people and people isolating. Development of the museum website is underway and the target to the new website live in the New year.
The museum has been awarded £84480 from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund for a project called Democratising the collections for the 21st Century. This will follow on from the What’s in the box? project working with the home education, LGBTQ+ and refugee groups with the addition of activity with D/deaf/disabled and neurodiverse people and groups in the area. This will fund community engagement work for the next two years.
Ingenious Contraptions was well received over the summer holidays and thanks were given to Cabaret Mechanical Theatre for allowing the exhibition. The next exhibition, Crossings: community and refuge (10 September 2021 – 5 December 2021) is in partnership with the British museum, Buddy Refugee Project and the Hastings City of Sanctuary.
For learning, 453 children have been to the museum since May, and the Loans boxes have been popular, and these have been added to and redeveloped. Being an arts award centre, the museum can now offer Bronze and Silver Arts Award alongside the Digital Discover and Explore qualifications. The Business plan review has shown that Visitors to the museum have contributed over £1.3 million to the local economy, there has been over 200% increase in funding and the museum has reached out digitally to over 1 million people.
Councillors asked regarding what has been learnt from the last 3 years. The Museum and Cultural Development Manager said the review is underway and can be presented at the next meeting.
Councillor Carr proposed approval of the recommendations, seconded by Councillor Cllr Roark
RESOLVED (unanimously)
To accept this report and recommend approval by Cabinet.
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