Cultural role of Qld small museums
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Lecture Dr Brian Crozier & Faye Schutt May 23 2013 UQ Lecture Series Museums and Heritage
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Cultural role of Qld small museums
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. 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
- 5. 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?
- 6. KILCOY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Giles Vitrex hair dryer
- 7. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES BY FOUNDATION DATE
- 8. WHAT ARE THEY COLLECTING? Mostly – Social History Given by 213 museums in the Museum and Gallery Finder
- 9. CULTURAL ROLE THROUGH STAKEHOLDERS • The community • Volunteers • Audiences • Funding bodies
- 10. 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
- 11. 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
- 14. 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
- 15. VOLUNTEER NUMBERS • 15,000 across the state in museums? • 54% of museums totally volunteer run
- 16. RESTORATION
- 17. 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%
- 18. KINGAROY
- 19. 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
- 20. FUNDING BODIES • Museums not well accommodated by funding criteria • Eg RADF – for “ar@sts” and “arts prac@ce”
- 21. NOOSA MUSEUM
- 24. GUBBI GUBBI KEEPING PLACE AT NOOSA MUSEUM
- 25. COBB AND CO CHANGING STATION, SURAT
- 27. TAMWORTH POWER STATION MUSEUM
- 28. TAMWORTH POWER STATION MUSEUM
- 29. POWER STATION MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
- 30. 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
- 31. A PIECE OF WOOD
- 32. A SCHOOL MAGAZINE (“keep this clean”)
- 37. NURSES’ HANDOVER REPORT BOOK
- 38. PARABELLES BADGE