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.
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
Factsheet: displaying and mounting historic dress (pdf)
Factsheet: dating and interpreting Victorian portrait photographs (pdf)
Factsheet: investigating, identifying and dating historic dress (pdf)
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)
