Museums play a unique and important role in society. They help us understand where we have come from, telling the story of our shared cultural identity. They help us learn from the past, so that we can create a better future.

Strategic collections management as a professional discipline is at the very core of what a modern museum is and does. It combines new insight into management with skills in ‘traditional’ museum practices like documentation, environmental management and security. It brings together soft skills with subject expertise and the ability to use technology creatively to drive new forms of engagement.

The Institute of Conservation (Icon) has announced a Call for Tenders for a consultant or consultants to undertake a review and develop a case for development support for the Chantry Library.

About the Call for Tenders

Icon has a valued asset in the Chantry Library and the associated Beatrix Chantry Fund, established in memory of Judith Chantry. Icon Trustees have decided that serious consideration should be given to enhancing the potential of the Chantry Library and building on the foundation of the Beatrix Chantry Fund before it is exhausted in 2015. The Trustees have therefore decided to initiate the Icon Chantry Library Development Project to extend and transform the current role of the Chantry Library.

The Institute of Conservation (ICON) has issued a Call for Tenders for consultants to undertake a quinquennial review of the PACR (Professional Accreditation of Conservator-Restorers) scheme. 

The Quinquennial review for 2013 will be the third one since PACR was implemented in 2000.  The first review in 2003 focused on the operational aspects of the PACR process and its professional standards structure. In 2008 the review aimed to find out how PACR could address the needs of the conservation community and its stakeholders over the next decade as well develop a process that would be as fully inclusive as possible to all practising conservators in the cultural sector .

A one-day event to address key insurance issues affecting all those directing, managing and organising museums, archives, galleries and private collections has been launched by the Collections Trust. The Insurance for Museums Conference will be presented at the British Library Conference Centre on 25 April 2013.

Sponsored by specialist brokers Blackwall Green and insurers Hiscox, its programme will focus on why museums need insurance, the different types of insurance available, how to find policies which their specific needs, and the availability of bespoke policies to cover specific activities and collections items.

This How To Guide is published by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, in partnership with the Collections Trust to help explore the role of planning in delivering effective collections care and give guidance on achieving your goals by efficient planning.

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This How To Guide is published by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service in partnership with the Collections Trust to provide an introduction to the packing of museum objects against accidental damage, pollutants and environment whilst in storage, or perhaps in order to move them within the museum building or for transportation.

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How T Guide to Packing Museum Objects

Republished from a SHARE fact-sheet

Editors: Alex Dawson and Natasha Hutcheson
License: CC BY NC SA

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This How To Guide, published by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service in partnership with the Collections Trust, provides a broad summary of the different types of
insurance that need to be considered by museums and a more detailed guide to the issue of insuring museum collections.

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By Margaret Harrison, Museum Consultant

Editors: Alex Dawson and Natasha Hutcheson
License: CC BY NC SA

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Bibliography

This How To Guide, published by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
in partnership with the Collections Trust, provides an introduction to the recognition and management of hazards in museum collections, and is a starting point for managing associated risks

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How To Guide on Hazards in Museum Collctions

By Allyson Rae, Conservator

Editors: Alex Dawson and Natasha Hutcheson
License: CC BY NC SA

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SHARE Museums East Resource Page