Back to Basics: Assessing Collection Risks for Emergency Plans
Are you confident that you know the most vulnerable areas of your collection and that your emergency plan is up to date?
Conservator Jane Thompson-Webb will lead this online training day, split into two sessions, which will cover;
- risk assessing collections
- identification of vulnerable collection areas
- using data to support IPM and environmental monitoring
Participants will be guided on action planning to support their organisation’s emergency plan.
Museums attending this training will be eligible to join the WMMD Benchmarks in Collections Care Programme (commencing March 2022).
Who should attend?
This event is suitable for anyone who works with collections or has responsibility for museum buildings.
No more than one delegate per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Delegates must attend both sessions on 20 January to be eligible to take part in the WMMD Benchmarks in Collections Care Programme.
The webinar will be live captioned by MyClearText, through StageText.
All participants will receive a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. This will be emailed to the address given in your booking. If you have not received an email by the day before the event please contact us.
If the booking button isn’t visible the event is fully booked. To join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk.
Back to Basics: Assessing Collection Risks for Emergency Plans
Thursday 20 January 2022, 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm
Online
Coffee and Chatter
Your networking opportunity
Join the WMMD team at 10.30am for a half hour of Coffee and Chatter.
It’s your chance to share what’s happening at your museum, learn what your colleagues across the sector are doing in their heritage organisations, ask the WMMD team for advice and hear about the latest sector guidance and news.
During this Coffee and Chatter we will be joined by Frances Turner FHEA. PGCPL. Senior Lecturer, Bath School of Design and David Nash, Curator of Social History and Principal Curator for The Tickenhill Trust, Museums Worcestershire for two short presentations on collaborative projects which explore the history, collections and significance of the glove industry.
Frances will present the Glove Network, an AHRC funded project which has brought together the University of Bath, museums, manufacturers, designers and leather/ tannery specialists with expert knowledge of the manufacturing of gloves, materials, embellishment and conservation since February 2020. The project aims to raise awareness of the collections and manufacturing in an under-researched area. www.theglovenetwork.co.uk
David will present the ‘Glove Affair’ 2019-2022, a Museums Worcestershire project funded by the Esme Fairbairn Foundation. This community-based project reconnects people to their past, promotes better understanding of Worcester’s international significance in the gloving industry and leaves a legacy of glove making in the county in which it once thrived.
Grab your morning cuppa, exchange ideas and catch up with some friendly faces.
Zoom details:
https://zoom.us/j/99254865285?pwd=R2xiUlUzOFdWMGJFQXpyL0E4cHpNQT09
Meeting ID: 992 5486 5285
Password: 579046
Coffee and Chatter will be auto-captioned.
Economics of Touring Exhibitions (part 2)
This online workshop from Touring Exhibitions Group (TEG) is spread over two sessions on Monday 15 and Monday 22 November. It explores the economic and partnership models that venues can employ to tour nationally, drawing from case studies and examples of good practice. It considers the range of ways to structure a touring programme, how to approach building a consortia of venues to work with, budgeting, fundraising and sustainable touring.
Economics of Touring Exhibitions
Monday 15 and Monday 22 November, 9am-12noon
Online
Economics of Touring Exhibitions (part1)
This online workshop from Touring Exhibitions Group (TEG) is spread over two sessions on Monday 15 and Monday 22 November. It explores the economic and partnership models that venues can employ to tour nationally, drawing from case studies and examples of good practice. It considers the range of ways to structure a touring programme, how to approach building a consortia of venues to work with, budgeting, fundraising and sustainable touring.
Economics of Touring Exhibitions
Monday 15 and Monday 22 November, 9am-12noon
Online
Dealing with Complexity: Collections Trust Conference 2021
The 2021 conference explores how museums can work more effectively with complex layers of data about their collections. This information increasingly lives outside the structured collections databases we’re used to – and, indeed, outside the museum sector at all. If you’re wrestling with the multi-layered, multi-perspective knowledge that comes with ‘cataloguing outside the box’, this conference is for you.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Spectrum Partner Axiell, Collections Trust is delighted to offer free conference tickets to students and other unwaged individuals. Sixty-five free tickets are available on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. If you are a student, or are otherwise currently unwaged, please just complete the registration form.
Dealing with Complexity: Collections Trust Conference 2021
Thursday 14 and Friday 15 October, 2pm-5pm
Online
Dealing with Complexity: Collections Trust Conference 2021
The 2021 conference explores how museums can work more effectively with complex layers of data about their collections. This information increasingly lives outside the structured collections databases we’re used to – and, indeed, outside the museum sector at all. If you’re wrestling with the multi-layered, multi-perspective knowledge that comes with ‘cataloguing outside the box’, this conference is for you.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Spectrum Partner Axiell, Collections Trust is delighted to offer free conference tickets to students and other unwaged individuals. Sixty-five free tickets are available on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. If you are a student, or are otherwise currently unwaged, please just complete the registration form.
Dealing with Complexity: Collections Trust Conference 2021
Thursday 14 and Friday 15 October, 2pm-5pm
Online
Collections Disposal: Navigating the Maze
West Midlands Museum Development and East Midlands Museum Development have joined forces to host this event for museums across the Midlands.
Navigating through the disposals process can feel very daunting. This session will take a scenario-based approach to explore a variety of disposals issues and themes including collections management and documentation, legal and ethical considerations.
Small groups will be given the opportunity to discuss a different scenario and will then feedback thoughts and questions to a panel for open discussion. Delegates will be asked to submit a scenario before the session. All scenarios will be anonymised.
Join our panel of experts who will help you to find a successful path; Sarah Brown (Collections Trust), Alistair Brown (Museums Association), Anita Hollinshead (Museum Development East Midlands) and Professor Janet Ulph (Department of Museums Studies, Leicester University).
Who should attend?
Those involved in decision making and/ or management of disposals including staff, volunteers and trustees.
By the end of the session you will
- Have an understanding of the legal, ethical and collections management considerations involved in disposals
- Know where to find further guidance about disposals
- Feel more confident when dealing with and discussing disposals with sector colleagues
This session supports the Museum Accreditation Standard
- 4.2 A policy approved by the governing body for developing collections including acquisitions and disposals
- 5.1 An approved documentation policy
- 5.2 To follow the primary SPECTRUM documentation standards
Places are limited to two delegates per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
The webinar will be live captioned.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email by the day before the event please contact us.
If the booking button isn’t visible the event is fully booked. If you would like to join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk
An Introduction to Rights Management
10.30am-12.30pm, Online
Managing intellectual property rights is an important aspect of collections management and is becoming increasingly relevant as museums work to get more of their collections online. Join Sarah Brown from the Collections Trust for this bitesize session, where we will review the Spectrum 5.0 Rights Management procedure, which can help your museum manage and document rights identified in your collection.
There will be opportunities to ask questions during the session as well as share ideas with other attendees.
By the end of the session, delegates will:
- Understand how the Spectrum Rights Management procedure can be used as a framework for managing information related to rights in your collection.
- Know where to find more information and guidance.
This session supports the Accreditation Standard, in particular section 5.1 A Documentation Policy and Plan and 5.2 to follow the Primary Spectrum Documentation Procedures.
Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
The webinar will be live captioned.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email one hour before the event please contact us.
If the booking button isn’t visible the event is fully booked. If you would like to join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk.
An Introduction to Rights Management
Wednesday 19 May, 10.30am-12.30pm
Online
Every Object Tells a Story: Developing Confidence in Talking about Our Collections Online
We use our collections to tell stories every day but how confident are we in speaking publicly about our wonderful objects to different audiences online?
This workshop, held over two consecutive mornings, will be led by collaborative theatre maker, project coordinator and writer Tom England. Museum staff and volunteers will be supported to build their confidence in talking about objects and collections online, giving them the skills to speak effectively and imaginatively about their museum’s part of the region’s collections story.
Part one will concentrate on the different tools and techniques that can be used and will include case studies from other museums. Part two will look at practical delivery. It will include the opportunity for participants to put into practice what they have learned.
This workshop will be useful to anyone who wants to build confidence in talking to visitors and audiences about objects and collections, whatever their role within the museum. The skills and tools that will be shared by Tom will be of use for both online delivery and in-person sessions in our museums when we are once again able to welcome visitors through our doors.
No more than one delegate per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. Delegates must attend both sessions.
The Zoom webinar will be auto captioned through Zoom.
All participants will receive a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. This will be emailed to the address given in your booking. If you have not received an email one hour before the event please contact us. You don’t need a Zoom account, simply follow the link provided and enter the password.
This event is in two parts – 9 and 10 March. Booking is through the event information on 9 March here.
9 and 10 March – Every Object Tells a Story: Developing Confidence in Talking about Our Collections Online
10am-12.noon, Zoom
Hazards in Museum Collections (part 2)
West Midlands Museum Development is running a series of collections care courses with Jane Thompson-Webb, Conservation Team Leader at Birmingham Museums Trust. The sessions are designed to keep museums in touch with collections care and to give staff and volunteers the confidence and skills to carry out basic work when capacity is limited. The sessions will support emergency planning around Covid-19 in relation to collections.
Hazards in Museum Collections
This course, in two parts, will support museums to identify the ‘hidden unknowns’ in their collections and support updating emergency planning procedures.
No more than one delegate per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
The webinar will be live captioned by MyClearText, through StageText.
All participants will receive a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. This will be emailed to the address given in your booking. If you have not received an email one hour before the event please contact us. You don’t need a Zoom account, simply follow the link provided and enter the password.
Booking is via the details for part one on 26 January.
Hazards in Museum Collections
26 January and 2 February 2021, 11am-1pm
