Opinion
Unsundered
Sunderland has not quit Tyne & Wear Museums as the city council has not taken such a decision. A group from the Friends of Sunderland Museums met the cabinet member for culture and the Sunderland City Council officer responsible for heritage to discuss the cabinet paper referred to in the article on the future of …
Lax security
The recent burglary at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is distressing. What you may not know is that in the spring of 1994, thieves broke down the service door at the back of the museum and stole most of a valuable collection of old chronometers. The collection has not been recovered. Why was the service door …
A welcome tax break for MA members
I recently received a welcome tax relief for my individual Museums Association membership subscription – both for this year and several previous years. I had always been put off by the idea of struggling with the forms, however times are now sufficiently tight for me to decided that it was worth having a go. For …
Why evaluation doesn’t measure up
Evaluation is a standard part of museum projects. There’s front-end evaluation, which takes place while early ideas for a project are developing. There’s formative evaluation, which typically tests out prototype exhibits. Then, at the end of the project, there’s summative evaluation, which is – well – a little confusing. We are taking a critical look …