Davies to chair sustainability advisory group
Patrick Steel, 29.06.2010
Group to meet for first time this Thursday
Maurice Davies, the MA’s head of policy and communications, is to chair the Renaissance Sustainability Advisory Group (RSAG), which will meet for the first time this Thursday.
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has commissioned BOP Consulting to carry out a national evaluation of sustainability work within the Renaissance programme, and the group is being set up in conjunction with this.
The group’s remit is to use the evaluation work to help shape the policy and programmes of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) for supporting sustainability within museums.
Davies said: “I’m pleased that the MLA is now actively doing something about sustainability, because hitherto there was some talk but not much action.
“And I’m also pleased that, through chairing this group, we will be able to help the MLA, drawing on everything the Museums Association has learned from museums during the course of putting together our sustainability report.”
Other members of the panel include the director of the Museum of East Anglian Life, Tony Butler, the director of the Weald & Downland Museum, Richard Harris, the assistant head of museums at Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service, Bill Seaman, the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s Andrea Dias, and MLA’s director of programmes Hedley Swain.
To read more on the MA's sustainability report, click here
Correction 30.06.2010
We said the group would meet for the first time on Friday, which is incorrect. The group will meet for the first time on Thursday.
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has commissioned BOP Consulting to carry out a national evaluation of sustainability work within the Renaissance programme, and the group is being set up in conjunction with this.
The group’s remit is to use the evaluation work to help shape the policy and programmes of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) for supporting sustainability within museums.
Davies said: “I’m pleased that the MLA is now actively doing something about sustainability, because hitherto there was some talk but not much action.
“And I’m also pleased that, through chairing this group, we will be able to help the MLA, drawing on everything the Museums Association has learned from museums during the course of putting together our sustainability report.”
Other members of the panel include the director of the Museum of East Anglian Life, Tony Butler, the director of the Weald & Downland Museum, Richard Harris, the assistant head of museums at Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service, Bill Seaman, the Department of Culture Media and Sport’s Andrea Dias, and MLA’s director of programmes Hedley Swain.
To read more on the MA's sustainability report, click here
Correction 30.06.2010
We said the group would meet for the first time on Friday, which is incorrect. The group will meet for the first time on Thursday.
