The head of Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service has been elected as the next president of the Museums Association (MA).
Vanessa Trevelyan (above) will take over as president at the MA’s annual conference in Manchester next month.
Trevelyan said that museums were facing a “perfect storm of government and local authority cutbacks, uncertainty about the future of Renaissance in the Regions and the demise of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council”.
If proposed changes to the MA’s governance are accepted at the annual general meeting in October, elections for a new board will take place this year, but the president will remain in place when the new board takes over the MA’s governance on 1 April 2011.
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Vanessa Trevelyan (above) will take over as president at the MA’s annual conference in Manchester next month.
Trevelyan said that museums were facing a “perfect storm of government and local authority cutbacks, uncertainty about the future of Renaissance in the Regions and the demise of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council”.
If proposed changes to the MA’s governance are accepted at the annual general meeting in October, elections for a new board will take place this year, but the president will remain in place when the new board takes over the MA’s governance on 1 April 2011.
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