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Issue - meetings
Collections Report
Meeting: 06/09/2021 - Museum Committee (Item 5)
5 Collections Report PDF 387 KB
(Damian Etheraads, Museum and Cultural Development Manager)
Minutes:
Museum and Cultural Development Manager presented to the committee on collections care, access, acquisitions, loans and objects being considered for rationalisation. The museum received a Collections Care Grant from South East Museums in March 2020, this has been used to repack and care for collections. The Integrated Pest Management programme is showing a lot about the building and where are issues and how to address them. The museum IT systems will need to be updated and funding will be needed for this.
The Francis Crick Institute has asked the Museum to be part of a project Uncovering 5,000 years of genetic evolution: from the Stone Age to the 21st century. To be part of the project the museum will have to take samples from 25 skeletons. Museum and Cultural Development Manager aske the committee to support this. The Museum and Cultural Development Manager highlighted the Acquisitions to the committee and noted some digital items which is new. A loan to the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool has left the museum today and shows the strength of the collection. A collection of long-standing loan of objects to the fisherman’s museum which allows for them to continue to be displayed is recommended to be a transfer of the ownership.
Mr Street stated it was a good for the museum to be recognised by the Francis Crick Institute and he agrees with the transfer of ownership of the items to the Fisherman’s Museum as it will keep them on display.
Councillor Arthur asked a question regarding the ‘democratising the museum’ and decolonising the museum. The Museum and Cultural Development Manager said the museum is working with audiences and voices who haven’t been represented.
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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