Monument Fellowships
Background to the Monument Fellowship scheme
With funding from The Monument Trust, we ran a programme of Fellowships for retired museum professionals, aimed at capturing their unrecorded collections-related knowledge from 2007-11.
The scheme was a response to the findings of the Museums Association’s report Collections for the Future, which argued that knowledge about museum collections is as important as the collections themselves.
But it found that many people were concerned that museums were doing too little to develop and share knowledge.
Click here for information about Collections for the Future
The programme saw 30 Fellows take part, the immediate aim being to enable these collections specialists to share unrecorded knowledge with former colleagues, their successors and the wider museum community.
But the programme also aimed to encourage museums to think again about how knowledge is developed and shared.
It aimed to raise the profile of collections knowledge, to emphasise its importance and to try out approaches to knowledge sharing that other museums might use and adapt. The Fellowships did not support new research.
The Monument Fellows worked in many different kinds of museums, from small independent museums to the biggest national museums and with a wide range of different collections.
They used many different approaches to sharing their knowledge, from one-to-one conversations around objects, to organised programmes of themed podcasts.
Click here to download a list of Monument Fellows
For more on how you can succession plan, click here
The scheme was a response to the findings of the Museums Association’s report Collections for the Future, which argued that knowledge about museum collections is as important as the collections themselves.
But it found that many people were concerned that museums were doing too little to develop and share knowledge.
Click here for information about Collections for the Future
The programme saw 30 Fellows take part, the immediate aim being to enable these collections specialists to share unrecorded knowledge with former colleagues, their successors and the wider museum community.
But the programme also aimed to encourage museums to think again about how knowledge is developed and shared.
It aimed to raise the profile of collections knowledge, to emphasise its importance and to try out approaches to knowledge sharing that other museums might use and adapt. The Fellowships did not support new research.
The Monument Fellows worked in many different kinds of museums, from small independent museums to the biggest national museums and with a wide range of different collections.
They used many different approaches to sharing their knowledge, from one-to-one conversations around objects, to organised programmes of themed podcasts.
Click here to download a list of Monument Fellows
For more on how you can succession plan, click here
