Museums & Archive
Museums & Archive Content
Collections of diverse objects such as books, coins, vintage cars, boats and farm machinery provide a link with our past. The preservation of such collections is an important part our Museums and Archive work.
- Hand-made glass model from the Blaschka collection of marine life (c.1880), The Zoological Museum, Trinity College Dublin.
The Museum Standards Programme
The Heritage Council’s main commitment to collections care comes through its support of the Museum Standards Programme for Ireland.
This important initiative, with participants from a wide range of Irish collecting institutions, sets out to raise standards of care across Irish museums and galleries.
The Museum Standards Programme for Ireland is the core initiative of the Museums and Archives Committee. This programme, the first of its kind in the Republic of Ireland, sets out to improve all aspects of Ireland’s museum practice. A voluntary programme, it has attracted involvement from across the cultural spectrum — from national institutions to small, volunteer-led organisations. It is complemented by a full training programme, with a targeted post-graduate museum course which is supported by the Heritage Council and delivered by the University of Ulster.
In 2009 - 2010 the Heritage Council hopes to continue its financial support for participants in post-graduate training for the museum sector. The Heritage Council considers such training as enhancing greatly its Museum Standards Prorgamme for Ireland. Details of courses currently on offer from the University of Ulster are to be found by clicking on the links indicated.
PGD/MA Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
http://prospectus.ulster.ac.uk/course/?id=5460
PGD/MA Museum Practice and Management (online distance learning)
http://prospectus.ulster.ac.uk/course/?id=5528
Museums and Community
http://www.routledge.com/books/Museums-and-Community-isbn9780415336574
Boats at Risk Scheme
- Traditional boat-building and preservation are supported by the Heritage Council [Maurice Gunning]
In promoting the care of collections, the Museums and Archives Committee is considering the nature and extent of Maritime Collections across Ireland.
Report-focused projects are currently considering the logistical requirements of historic boat storage and the potential for developing a ‘Boats at Risk‘ Scheme. This would not only provide support funding for threatened historic vessels, but also, importantly, would rescue and promote the threatened skills base for the safeguarding and maintenance of such boats.
Click to visit the Marine Publications section to download Ireland’s Boating Heritage - The Future?
HERITAGE IN YOUR AREA
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MUSEUMS & ARCHIVE EVENTS
Exhibition - Ranks Mills at the Hunt Museum, Limerick
Ranks Mills was crucial to Limerick life over a span of several decades. It also provided an excellent example of life and work in Limerick’s recent past.
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MUSEUMS & ARCHIVE PUBLICATIONS
A Policy Framework for the Irish Museum Sector
The Heritage Council is currently developing a Standards and Accreditation Scheme for the Irish museum sector. The aim of this scheme is to assess quality assurance in our collecting institutions. Run by the Museums and Archives...