Monument Fellowships

With funding from The Monument Trust, we run a programme of Fellowships for retired museum professionals, aimed at capturing their unrecorded collections-related knowledge.

We hope the Fellowships will encourage museums to find ways to share knowledge and in particular to think about succession planning for collections specialists.

The first round of Monument Fellowships began in 2007 and, since then, the Fellowships have enabled 15 retired specialists to share unrecorded knowledge with former colleagues and the wider sector.

From March we will be recruiting a new round of Fellowships before the programme comes to an end in 2011.

Application details will appear here soon.

To register interest in the next round of Fellowships, please email Emma Mitchinson: cpd@museumsassociation.org

Monument Fellowships aim to record and share existing collections-related knowledge that might otherwise be lost. They do not support new research.

The Fellowships are a response to our 2005 report, Collections for the Future, which argued that knowledge about collections is as important as the collections themselves and demands greater investment.

Fellows work primarily in a host museum, which should be the Fellow's former place of work, and we ask them to share their knowledge with the wider museum community through one or more events.

You can find more guidance on knowledge-sharing in the download section below.

Previous Monument Fellows
2007/08

Leslie Jessop, Tyne and Wear Museums

Bob Elsley, Tyne and Wear Museums

Len Pole, Saffron Walden

Philip Atkins, National Railway Museum

Elaine Kennedy, Dumfries Museum

Helen Lanigan Wood, Fermanagh County Museum

Anthea Jarvis, Manchester City Galleries

Anthea produced 3 factsheets for curators working with historic dress collections as part of her Fellowship. You can find these in the downloads section below.

2007/08

Jim Andrew - Think Tank, Birmingham

Jonathan Brown - Museum of English Rural Life, Reading

Elizabeth Conran - The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co Durham

Chris Delaney - Carmarthenshire County Museum, Wales

Christine Longworth - Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, Runcorn

Arthur MacGregor - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Kenneth Qualmann - Winchester Museums

Brian Turner - Down County Museum, N Ireland

Downloads
A guide to networking and sharing knowledge effectively in retirement (pdf)

Factsheet: displaying and mounting historic dress (pdf)

Factsheet: dating and interpreting Victorian portrait photographs (pdf)

Factsheet: investigating, identifying and dating historic dress (pdf)

Events

Charity Centre, London
26.02.2010
Charity Centre, London
12.03.2010

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