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Lecture Dr Brian Crozier & Faye Schutt May 23 2013 UQ Lecture Series Museums and Heritage
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THE CULTURAL ROLE OF QUEENSLAND’S
SMALL MUSEUMS BRIAN CROZIER AND FAYE SCHUTT CROZIER SCHUTT ASSOCIATES MUSEUM, HISTORICAL AND HERITAGE CONSULTANTS
CS h3p://www.museumandhistoryservices.com
BACKGROUND
• The History Ins@tute, Victoria • History Trust of South Australia and Owning the past
• Queensland Museum and Museums Australia • Museum and Gallery Finder • Consultants’ Register
HOW MANY MUSEUMS?
• Queensland Museum, Directory of Queensland Museums, 1991 192
• Jane Lennon, Hidden heritage, 1995 250 • Search for Museum and Gallery Finder, 1997 350 • MAGSQ and MRCN, 2013 400 • Museums on MAGSQ database 264
OWNING THE PAST
MUSEUMS IN THE UK, US AND AUSTRALIA
Kylie Winkworth: • UK one museum per 24,000 • US one museum per 17,000 • Australia one museum per 7458
How many museums is enough?
KILCOY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Giles Vitrex hair dryer
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES BY FOUNDATION DATE
WHAT ARE THEY COLLECTING?
Mostly – Social History Given by 213 museums in the Museum and Gallery Finder
CULTURAL ROLE THROUGH STAKEHOLDERS
• The community • Volunteers • Audiences • Funding bodies
THE COMMUNITY
• Collec@ng, preserving and interpre@ng cultural heritage
• Breadth and depth of regional collec@ons a ra@onale for QM to be less ac@ve in social history?
• Regional collec@ons hold the bulk of Queensland’s social history collec@ons
• Many items of na@onal and interna@onal significance
THE STATE OF PLAY
• Becer collec@on management • Advisory services – MAGSQ and MRCN • Some professional co-‐ordina@on by amalgamated councils
• But there’s a long way to go
MERCY HERITAGE CENTRE
UQ PATHOLOGY MUSEUM
VOLUNTEERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
0-‐20 volunteers 28 socie@es 21-‐50 21 51-‐100 19 101-‐150 5 151-‐200 2 201-‐250 4 251-‐300 2 More than 301 8
VOLUNTEER NUMBERS
• 15,000 across the state in museums? • 54% of museums totally volunteer run
RESTORATION
VOLUNTEERS NEED…
• More training – happening through MRCN and MAGSQ
• More money – compare with Landcare’s $500m 1995-‐2000
• Access to more sources of funding • 54% volunteer run museums – galleries 14% • 27% museums receive opera@onal funding – galleries 75%
KINGAROY
VISITORS
2.5 million visitors to small museums and regional galleries – compare QM/QAG’s 2 million But visitors need more emphasis and funding for exhibi@ons
FUNDING BODIES
• Museums not well accommodated by funding criteria
• Eg RADF – for “ar@sts” and “arts prac@ce”
NOOSA MUSEUM
NOOSA MUSEUM ARCHIVES
NOOSA MUSEUM OBJECTS
GUBBI GUBBI KEEPING PLACE AT NOOSA MUSEUM
COBB AND CO CHANGING STATION, SURAT
CHANGING STATION EXHIBITIONS
TAMWORTH POWER STATION MUSEUM
TAMWORTH POWER STATION MUSEUM
POWER STATION MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
INDIVIDUAL ITEMS
• The small museum sector • Assessment of items of special significance is part of the significance assessment process
• In CSA, Faye looks amer these assessments
A PIECE OF WOOD
A SCHOOL MAGAZINE (“keep this clean”)
X-‐RAY EQUIPMENT 1896
STOPFORD HOME PLAQUE
ROAD CLOSURE SIGN
AUDREY’S WEDDING DRESS
NURSES’ HANDOVER REPORT BOOK
PARABELLES BADGE