There are some places on this excellent Introduction to Collections Care workshop. Good for beginners, volunteers or as a refresher for those who have care of collections- of whatever importance . Take your chance, there may not be another run of this core course near Warks. for quite a few months. Monday 11 March, 10am – […]
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Digital Futures for Transport and Industrial Collections: abtem event
ABTEM Spring Seminar:Digital Futures for Transport & Industrial Collections Coventry Transport Museum, 14 March 2013. The spring meeting of the Association focuses on future uses of digital technology in museums, with speakers from both Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund who will outline new funding streams and future areas of interest. There will also be […]
Photographic Archives, Technologies, and Methods of Recording
A workshop at The John Rylands Library; Wednesday 20th February… Workshop FREE but booking essential as places are limited (and soon) Please email: jrl.events@manchester.ac.uk or tel: 0161 306 0555
UK Medical Collections Group: 2013 conference
Collections delivering Health Outcomes: Thackray Museum in Leeds on 5 March Focusing on how collections-based projects can deliver health and well-being outcomes for users. The conference will cover partnerships, funding, commissioning and sustainable development for museums and arts organisations working in this area and will include an opportunity to work with a new evaluation kit for […]
What is it? Identifying mystery objects: trade tools
This free training day from the Social History curators Group at M-Shed, Bristol, is for anyone who would like to improve their skills in identifying the different types of tools that may lurk in their social history collections. 4 March 2013, 10am-4pm By the end of the day you will have Improved your understanding of the range […]
Emergency Planning and Disaster Recovery – Harwell course
Harwell is running its popular course on essential Emergency Planning and Disaster Recovery in London on March 18th 2013. There are also two places on the same event running on March 6th 2013 (if you’d like to attend this, please email Emma Dadson at the email address at the bottom of the page). This seminar is […]
New online security resources help museums combat threats
Collections Trust have launched a new source of information and advice about security issues as part of the Building Capacity for Museum Security project it is running for Arts Council England. It is now online at http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/security. FromCollections Trust Press release It provides resources and guidance which will help museums and galleries protect themselves against loss from their collections […]
Oral History : guidelines
Some great advice and tips … this time from the World War II museum in New Orleans some of the advice you’ll find Ten steps to conducting good oral history interviews Inform the Interviewee: Before any interview takes place, you should inform your interview subject of the purpose of the interview, the general subjects to be […]
Collections Link:review of the year
As usual Collections Link have a lot of good sense things to say… read their review of the year and here are their 10 predictions … anywhere near your predictions? 10 Predictions for 2013 In spite of what you might think, we’re not clairvoyants here at Collections Trust, and we don’t have magical powers, so […]
110m Hurdles: contemporary oral history:talking birds
an excellent project … should run and run .. why not join in 110m Hurdles | from http://www.talkingbirds.co.uk. See it when it arrives in Nuneaton, Leamington and Rugby museums more on the blog here: http://110mhurdles.wordpress.com/
