Egypt
UCL Museums and Collections
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Egypt
UCL Museums and Collections Survey Results
UCL Museums and Collections
I thought that this might be of interest to anyone looking at the way in which musum collections are used and how they might develop in the future, particularly in the context of university collections. Issues addressed include everthing from internal (UCL) awareness of the collections and what they offer, to whether or not the collections should seek to acquire new items and/or dispose of existing ones. I found the report fascinating.
The results of a staff and student survey on UCL Museums & Collections, undertaken in June 2007, are informing the next stages of developing the collections for teaching, research and public engagement.
The survey solicited information and opinion including: the UCL community’s awareness of the collections; their experience as visitors, researchers, teachers and students; the types of services provided; and principles of acquisition and transfer.Sally MacDonald, Director of UCL Museums & Collections, said: “We are grateful to the thousands of staff and students who took the time to complete the survey. It’s clear that people really value the collections – particularly as resources for teaching and research – but they want them to be much better housed and better marketed".
See the above page for more. The full results of the survey itself (Attitudinal Research to Support Development) can be found from a link at the top of the above page, or by clicking here (a 73 page PDF). The original questionnaire is supplied as an appendix.
- First Uk Museum Now On Culture Grid
Egypt Centre Press Release: Online first for the Egypt Centre’s Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Swansea University’s Egypt Centre is the first museum in Britain to have its whole collection go online on the Culture Grid - a searchable database for...
- Museum Of Turin Egyptology Collections Go Online
Museo Egizio, Torino The Museo Egizio di Torino (now governed by a Foundation) is striving to modernise itself. The works in progress include: researching, documenting and conserving the collections;improving information and services for the public;updating...
- Egyptian Objects Before Egyptology
Brooklyn Museum (Tom Hardwick) My work in the Wilbour Library involves keeping an eye out for books the Library needs, and carrying out archival research into the history of the Egyptian collections in support of the Library’s educational mission. In...
- Groundbreaking Partnership Unites Decades Of Research
New York Times MOST people associate museums with art and artifacts, not research libraries. But many of New York’s most prestigious museums have extensive collections of books and papers. Four of them — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum...
- Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces Thanks to Tom Gray for letting me know about the new Creative Spaces venture. Tom is working with the British Museum and 8 other major British galleries and museums on a new social media project called Creative Spaces. Creative Spaces...