Introducing the Campaign for Good Curatorship
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Presentation by Dr Tim Ewin about the Campaign, it's aims and actions.
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Introducing the Campaign for Good Curatorship
- 1. The Campaign for Good Curatorship: Great Museums Need Good Curators. How to reverse the decline of curators in British museums Dr Tim Ewin Supported by: http://www.campaignforgoodcuratorship.org.uk
- 2. Do we need specialist curators? 93% said yes! Why Campaign for Curators? % loss of curators in 10 years: Natural history: 35% Art curators: 23%, “Human history”: 5% An accompanying poll found that 91% agreed that a loss of curators was bad for the sector. Expertise identified as a top priority in the ‘BritainThinks’ consultation.
- 3. Need to know something? You need a curator… •Provide credibility, quality and authenticity to front-facing services. •Do the research that drives projects. •Provide the information that make objects interesting. •Develop collections and keep them relevant. •Keep alight the flame of knowledge. •Tell you when Wikipedia is wrong! Why Are Curators Important? Exhibitions Com m unityengagem ent and Outreach Collections care and management Curatorial Knowledge
- 4. What is Good Curatorship? The Good Curatorship Campaign seeks to encourage appropriate levels of curatorial staff within the museum sector. Thereby; •Ensuring the collections are relevant to the communities they serve; •Producing more effective exhibitions & outreach which enhance the visitors’ understanding beyond a distraction; •Providing more efficient collections management to promote relevance, sustainability and audience value; •Delivering on the public expectation that museums will care for and understand objects of cultural significance both now and for generations to come. http://www.campaignforgoodcuratorship.org.uk
- 5. What do we want? •Museum Studies courses to positively represent the importance of curatorial knowledge in all aspects of museum work. •Arts Council England to promote curatorship as a tool for supporting engagement in the Museums Accreditation Scheme and more robust definition of curatorial care within the Designation Scheme. •The Museums Association to acknowledge the ethical responsibility of museums to understand their collections via good curatorship in future versions of the Code of Ethics for Museums. •We call on the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to support research into the public benefit of curatorship. •Future curatorial conferences to provide curators with the forum to present examples of excellence. •Museums and museum professionals to show their support for this campaign by signing up to its manifesto. Campaign for Good Curatorship http://www.campaignforgoodcuratorship.org.uk
- 6. What do you think? • Please contact me at: – T.ewin@nhm.ac.uk – Tel: 0207 942 5531 – On Facebook: ‘Good Curatorship Campaign’ – Web site: http://www.campaignforgoodcuratorship.org.uk We Need You!
- 7. What do you think? • Please contact me at: – T.ewin@nhm.ac.uk – Tel: 0207 942 5531 – On Facebook: ‘Good Curatorship Campaign’ – Web site: http://www.campaignforgoodcuratorship.org.uk We Need You!
Hinweis der Redaktion
- I’m here today to talk about the re-launch of the Campaign for Good Curatorship. Over the last 10 years working in museums I have noticed the steady decline of curators in British museums and the lack of advocacy for the role of curator.
- During meetings with Nick Poole and the Collections Trust we discussed this apparent decline and he showed me the research he had been doing which showed a marked drop in job advertisements for curators. I decided to look into this further and in doing so I discovered a shocking decline in curators over the last 10 years. Natural history curators by 35%, Art curators by 23% and human history by 5%. As a result of this I wanted to find out what the public expect from their museums, after all, as museum professionals we are here to serve the public. I came across the results of a public consultation carried out by the MA and ACE in April 2013. This showed that curatorial expertise was seen as a top priority. This was further backed up by a public poll in the Guardian in June 2013 which found that 93% agreed that museums need specialist curators. This also corresponds with a similar poll by the Museums Association which found that 91% agreed that a loss of curators is bad for the sector. I decided to set up a campaign.
- This is why: because I feel curators and the specialist knowledge that they bring to the team is invaluable and irreplaceable. If you need to know something then you need a curator. Curators… This diagram serves to demonstrate how curatorial work can assist with all areas of museum work. Museums and the public can benefit from good curators who understand the collections and use this knowledge to improve the impact, value and sustainability of all the functions of the modern museum.
- What is good curatorship? The campaign seeks to encourage appropriate levels of curatorial staff within the museum sector…
- So what does the Campaign seek to achieve? We want…
- This is a re-launch of the campaign. We are looking to create a committee to set up and run consultation workshops to develop advocacy documents; to advise and input on the development of professional guidelines and set up conferences focussing on the impact of curatorial expertise. As this research simply hasn’t been done and is key to advocacy. This campaign needs to involve professionals from all areas of the sector – this is about healthy museums as a whole! As such, I’d love to know what you think and I encourage you to contact me and get involved!