Northern Rivers Regional MUSEUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Project Summary
This project supports 20 volunteer run museums across the 7 local government areas of the Northern River Region. Six of the Museums are in Clarence Valley Council LGA and the project is a partnership between Council and Arts Northern Rivers. It is a strategic response to a request for assistance from the museum committees who identified collections at risk and aging volunteer committees facing urgent sustainability issues.
In 2007 a Museum Development Officer was employed and the volunteers from all 20 of the museums have engaged enthusiastically in the program to protect and manage the collections training in collection management, significance assessments and conservation. The project is also addressing sustainability issues by facilitating partnerships, mentorships between museums, audience development and regional planning.
The project aims to foster a regional museums network which contributes to community cohesiveness by sharing the diverse stories and heritage of the region.
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Connecting the Region - part of the History of Radio and Communications collection, in the historic ABC Broadcasting Station building which is now the…
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NSW Minister for Arts Frank Sartor presents a Heritage Volunteer Award to Dorothea (Dot) Sawatzki, from the New Italy Museum, to honor her voluntary…
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Collections Management workshop attended by fifteen volunteers across nine museums and five LGAs. (17/11/07)
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Schaeffer House Museum Grafton
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