16 January 2013

‘Meet the Reviewer’ reviewed

Phoebe Westson, volunteer at Haslemere Museum, looks at the plans for the ‘Made for Trade’ exhibition with Pitt Rivers Museum design technicians, Chris Wilkinson Alan Cooke.
Sixteen curators, future curators, museum volunteers and museum-related students attended the ‘Meet the Reviewer’ event at the Pitt Rivers Museum on 7th November initiated by the Museum Ethnographers Group. The event was billed as an opportunity to critically interrogate the process of curating a temporary exhibition with curators, designers and conservators - in this case the ‘Made for Trade’ exhibition. Through presentations and gallery exploration in the morning, the rationale behind the exhibition was shared as well as practical and creative components.

In the afternoon, the review of the exhibition by Sue Giles of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery was explored as a round table discussion in an informal ‘question and answer’ format. The review itself had been available as a web blog several weeks prior to the meeting and prompted a lively exchange led by Sue.

Feedback from the meeting suggested that it had been very useful, particularly for continuous professional development. Subsequent to the session there have been links and support networks established between participants to discuss requirements for other museums, particularly those with ethnographic collections but no specialist staff in this area.
A follow-up visit by Phoebe Weston, a volunteer at Haslemere Museum who is working on the redisplay of an ethnographic showcase, enabled display technicians and curators at the Pitt Rivers Museum to share and demonstrate simple and effective techniques for developing artefact display supports and interpretation.

MEG Conference Draft Programme

Booking now open
Deadline 1 April 2012
Eventbrite - MEG 2013 Conference: Brave New Worlds
 

Draft programme

Monday 15 April 2013


09:30     Coffee and registration

10:00        Welcome – Janita Bagshawe, Head of Royal Pavilion & Museums


10:15       
Introduction - Helen Mears (Royal Pavilion & Museums) & Claire Wintle (University of Brighton)


Session 1: Digital dialogues: new spaces, new voices

10:30         Carl Hogsden (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge), 'Contact networks for digital reciprocation'

11:00         Sylvia Wackernagel (GRASSI Museum of Ethnography, Leipzig), 'Speaking for Ourselves – the U'mista Cultural Centre's Potlatch Collection and the role of (new) technologies in the joint exhibition project “The Power of Giving” at the Kunsthalle Dresden, Germany'

11:30         Hans van de Bunte (Tropenmuseum, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam), ‘Tropenmuseum and Engaged Museology’

12:00         Bill Tunstall (social anthropologist), 'The Museum in Mogadishu, Developing a digital collection'


12:30     Buffet lunch


Session 2: Digital tools: transforming the objects of museum ethnography

13:30         Catherine Elliott (British Museum), 'Re-imagining museum material: Visualising a group of objects from the British Museum's Africa collections using Reflective Transformation Imaging (RTI)'

14:00         Paolo Viscardi (Horniman Museum) and Anita Hollinshead (consultant), 'Mermaids uncovered'

14:30     TBC

15:00         Franciscas Figols (Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia – Universade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Millard Schisler (CinematecaBrasilia, Sao Paulo, Brazil), 'Generating digital information and the need to preserve it'


15:30     Tea


Session 3: In and beyond the museum: new participative opportunities

16:00         Michael Hitchcock, Vincent Cheng and Pai Chen Kuo (Macau University of Science and Technology), ‘Taking the Museum on to the Street: Digital interpretation in Macau’

16:30         Nicola Ashmore (University of Brighton), 'Touch: Collective conversations at Manchester Museum'

17:00         Helen Cornish (Goldsmiths College, University of London), 'Twittering, chanting and befriending witches: Generating community in the Museum of Witchcraft'

17:30         Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton), 'See how I see it? Museum ethnography through the eyes of the museum visitor'


18:00     Reception at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

19:00     Conference dinner at Chilli Pickle


Tuesday 16 April 2013

 

Session 4: Work in progress and short reports

09:00         Alison Clark (British Museum & King's College London), 'What happens         next? Using technology to sustain relationships '

09:15         Chantal Knowles (National Museums Scotland), 'Pacific collections in Scotland – a review'

09:30         Chris Wingfield (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford), 'Who cares? The material heritage of British missions in Africa and the Pacific and its future’

09:45         Kaitlin McCormick (University of Edinburgh), ‘Haida argillite in Scottish museums and the potential for digital repatriation’

10:00     TBC

10:15         TBC


10:30     Coffee

11:00     AGM

12:30     Buffet lunch


Session 5: Integrating technology into museum practice: past and present

13:30         Peter Pavement (Surface Impression), 'Gramophones in the Gallery: Charting the museum’s adoption of media in the gallery and beyond'

14:00         Lucie Carreau (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge), '”Let your fingers do the walking”: Exploring Fijian landscape with an iPad'

14:30         Alison Petch (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford), 'Private and public: Increasing access to museum histories through research websites'

15:00         Felicity McWilliams (Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading), 'A sense of place: Digitally mapping museum collections'


15:30        Tea


Session 6: Discussion: Defining the debates

16:00        TBC – conference summary and general discussion

17:00        Conference closes



10 January 2013

Film: Sound Galleries

Sound Galleries is a beautiful short professional film of the 'sound galleries' event on November 23rd 2012. 

Curated by Dr Noel Lobley and Embedded composer in residence, Nathaniel Mann, a four hour playlist of Bayaka music was programmed, broadcast and streamed live from within darkened galleries as thousands of visitors explored by torchlight. The webcast was watched live in the Central African Republic by a group of Bayaka people who walked for more than an hour to get to a satellite phone in the WWF office in Bayanga.

Reel to Real is a project running at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, designed to digitise and deliver the museum's unique ethnographic sound recordings. Please visit the project website for project updates and emerging content.

See:

http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/sound-galleries-on-film.html

Further information

noel.lobley@prm.ox.ac.uk

9 January 2013

Fijian Art & Culture: Exhibition Packages Available to Participating Museums






Who Cares? Edinburgh Missionary Heritage Workshop

By Julie Adams
Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

On 26th and 27th November 2012, a number of people interested in the material heritage of British missions in Africa and the Pacific, gathered in Edinburgh for a two-day workshop. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and organized by Chris Wingfield, Karen Jacobs and Chantal Knowles, the workshop was called provocatively called ‘Who Cares?’ –a title that captures the ambivalent relationship many now have with Britain’s history of missionary endeavours overseas during the colonial period.


The workshop, hosted by the Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, was attended by a broad range of participants, most of whom work in a museum or university setting. We began by introducing ourselves and our work, which was time well spent as it served to highlight the connections in our lines of research as well as areas of mutual interest. In summarizing, Chantal Knowles noted that the word that came up most often during these presentations was ‘dispersal’: the material consequences of missionary travels can be found far and wide. For example, missionaries returning home to the UK after years away often tried to raise funds for their retirements by selling objects to museums so that many collections are now spread across a number of institutions. This dispersal has profound consequences for researchers working on missionary collections and is something that will no doubt be further discussed in the upcoming workshops in 2013.

Our event in Edinburgh focused on the African context and was timed to coincide with the opening of a major exhibition at NMS to mark the bicentenary in 2013 of the birth of the most famous missionary of them all, David Livingstone. Curated by Sarah Worden, this excellent exhibition showcases Livingstone’s career and his legacy. His apocryphal encounter with Henry Morton Stanley, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, is represented in the exhibition by the two hats worn by the men, displayed together in a single case.  They brought to mind the material presence of the past as well as its passing, and served as a heady reminder of the ways in which the approaches and attitudes of yesterday remain today in our seemingly different world. 





That afternoon Friday Mufuzi, of the Livingstone Museum in Zambia presented a keynote address about the collections housed in his institution and the practical challenges it faces. I found it fascinating to hear of Livingstone’s continued heroic status in Zambia, a fact that makes returning him to history a difficult affair. After a long day, the group headed out for dinner at an African tapas restaurant. It was a truly unique dining experience!

Tuesday morning began with a tour of the new permanent World Cultures galleries at NMS. Although there was only time for a snap-shot overview, one could clearly see the frequency with which missionary collections were implemented in the displays, although the missionary context was often not emphasized when these objects were presented to the public. This seems to be the fate of missionary collections around the country, while curators and the public are familiar and to some extent comfortable with the narrative of explorers and exploration in contemporary museum displays – how missionary collections are presented is a much bigger challenge.

In the summing up discussions, one contributor noted the large number of Pacific specialists in attendance and wondered if more Africanists could perhaps be involved.  To my mind this was to miss the point, what our gathering was able to achieve was to look beyond the locale of our own individual research; it presented an opportunity to use our own experiences to bring into focus the shared ideas that shaped the missionary endeavour.

RAI Horniman Museum Collecting Initiative (2012-13)



As part of Collections People Stories: Anthropology Re-Considered, an Arts Council England (ACE) funded project taking place at the Horniman Museum, 2012-2015, the Royal Anthropological Institute are seeking PhD Students or Postdoctoral Fellows, who plan to carry out fieldwork in 2013 to make small collections for the museum.

Submission deadline: 11 March 2013.

Collections People Stories: Anthropology Re-Considered is undertaking a detailed review and documentation of the Horniman’s Anthropology collections, highlighting the range, scale and importance of both its stored collections and those on display. The project sets out to investigate new and innovative ways of collections research, engagement and interpretation. It will facilitate academic and community consultation and debate, to both unpack the legacy of the anthropology collections and unlock their values for communities and visitors today. The different activities and events over the course of the project will feed into establishing a vision, and funding bid, for a major new anthropology gallery at the museum.

The Horniman has had a long legacy of fieldwork collecting. As part of the Collections People Stories project, they are keen to further expand on their remit of contemporary collecting at the museum.

We would like applicants to collect a single object or small selection of objects related to their own research area that would be of interest to the museum. The object needs to be visually appealing and culturally significant, an object that would easily lend itself to being displayed at the museum. The object/s collected should also have a rich context and we strongly encourage the use of photographs and videos showing the object being used and/or being made.

We are also interested in proposals that employ different models of field collecting, for instance asking local people what they would collect to represent themselves etc.

Please send us a proposal (up to 1,500 words) outlining, in brief, your research interests, fieldwork plans, including a proposal of objects you would like to collect for the museum.

£500 in expenses will be given to 5 people, selected by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Please note: This fee includes object acquisition, packing and transport costs, so please take this into account within your proposal. Please also bear in mind museum conservation and storage issue when choosing your object. The Horniman’s Acquisition Policy can be found here: http://www.horniman.ac.uk/media/_file/Policies-Acquisition.pdf

Those selected will be expected to write a short object narrative, which will be posted on the Horniman Museum's website, http://www.horniman.ac.uk/.

If you have any questions regarding the Horniman Museum collections, or want to know more about the holdings from your specific research areas, please contact Sarah Byrne, sbyrne@horniman.ac.uk

All submissions should be sent by 11 March 2013 to: Amanda Vinson, Royal Anthropological Institute, 50 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 5BT (email admin@therai.org.uk).

Seminars: Geography, Museums and Collections

LONDON GROUP OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHERS

Seminar Programme, Spring 2013



22 January                    Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway)

Reconfiguring objects, refashioning spaces: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany


5 February                    James Wallis (University of Exeter)
 

'Oh! What a lovely exhibition!' Exploring the Imperial War Museum's First World War fiftieth anniversary displays, 1964-1968

                  
 19 February                  Claire Wintle (University of Brighton)
 

Decolonising the Smithsonian: American foreign policy and colonial collections, 1945-1970


5 March                        Nicholas Thomas (University of Cambridge)
 

Pacific presences: encounter and experiment in the European museum


19 March                      George Lovell (Queen’s University, Ontario)
 

The archive that never was: state terror and historical memory in Guatemala


These seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5.15pm in the Torrington Room 104, South Block, Senate House, University of London. For further details, or to have your name added to our e-mail list, please contact Felix Driver, Royal Holloway (f.driver@rhul.ac.uk) or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary (m.j.ogborn@qmul.ac.uk). We are grateful to Royal Holloway, Queen Mary, Kings, Birkbeck, UCL, LSE, University of Sussex, Open University and the IHR for supporting this seminar series.

Brief for a Consultant Ethnographer (North East Africa)


Royal Albert Memorial Museum Collections Review 2012-2013





Specialist collections assessment:


North East African material in RAMM’s Ethnographic collection



Indicative fee: £1500 inclusive of all expenses


Closing date for Expressions of Interest: Friday 11 January 2013, 12 noon





Introduction


The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter seeks a consultant ethnographer, specialising in North East African material, to assess and grade the significance of approximately 135 items from Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia and the Sudan.





Background: RAMM collections review


Between 2011 and 2013 RAMM is carrying out an extensive review of its collection of almost one million objects. The review sets out to assess and grade the collections for historical, cultural or scientific significance and potential for research, audience diversification, learning and income generation.





RAMM’s collections review has two elements:


  1. Preliminary Collections Assessment: primarily carried out internally by non-specialist museum professionals
  2. Expert review of selected material: carried out with input from specialist curators at RAMM, external experts and peers.





This brief is for a piece of work as part of the second element; specialist / expert review.





Why North East Africa?


RAMM’s Ethnography collection includes 135 items from this part of the world acquired in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Few of these items have been displayed, as opportunities to research the material have been limited. Public awareness of the sub-collection is low. A preliminary collections assessment has identified the material as a high priority for research and review.





Exploratory work is needed to determine the cultural value of these objects and to determine whether the material has any strengths (or otherwise) as a sub-collection.


The results of the review will help RAMM to develop plans for future usage and accessibility of the material.





What kind of material is involved?


The sub-collection includes some decorated high status items, but exploratory work is needed to better inform about their cultural value.





The group consists largely of:


  • Weapons and shields
  • A small number of textiles
  • Body ornaments





For this commission, we would like the appointed Consultant Ethnographer to review and assess this material, commenting on their cultural and historic importance.





The material, together with associated documentation, will be made accessible by arrangement in RAMM’s new Collections Study Centre or its on-site collections store.





Outcome of consultancy


As a result of this expert review by a consultant, RAMM needs to:





  1. be sure that the North East African items are accurately described in the collections information, including information relating to the donor, function, and indigenous community wherever possible.





  1. identify highlights among the material.





  1. have an expert commentary on, and ranking of, the North East African material according to the following criteria:
    1. Provenance and history (e.g. connection to a person, place, indigenous group, event, activity, belief, custom, theme, etc)
    2. Representativeness and best examples of type (local, regional, international)
    3. Importance to the study or development of ethnography and our understanding of indigenous communities.





  1. to categorise the North East African items in terms of:
    1. Material which offers a high potential for research or other use
    2. Material which is unlikely to yield much useful information or have other use.





Preferred methodology


The consultant will be expected to:





  1. Review the relevant items in the store or Collections Study Centre, together with associated archival documentation
  2. Check, confirm, amend and expand upon existing collections documentation as appropriate
  3. Provide a brief expert commentary on each object assessed, grouping objects where appropriate and covering provenance, representativeness and importance to the study or development of ethnography and our understanding of indigenous communities, using a supplied template[1]
  4. Assess and grade the relative research or usage potential of objects or groups of objects, giving reasons for each assessment, using the supplied template
  5. Recommend a prioritisation or ranking of the material according to the above criteria. This will be cross-referenced to RAMM’s collections database in FileMaker Pro and provided in a format which facilitates straightforward transfer of consultancy findings to the database. (The consultant will not be expected to undertake any data transfer himself / herself)
  6. Suggest a sampling strategy for retention or disposal, in relation to the material assessed. For example, this could be a suggestion to retain 100% of the material or to transfer or dispose of 100%, or of sub-groups adjudged to be of lesser importance / relevance to RAMM. Again this will be in a format which facilitates easy transfer of information to RAMM’s collections database.





Deliverables


The consultant will be required to:


  1. Populate a supplied template with his/her findings/assessment in respect of each object or group of objects
  2. Produce a report setting out his/her findings, gradings and recommendations, as outlined in the preferred methodology/approach (above).





Other requirements


The consultant will be expected to:


  • Work to recognised professional and ethical standards for this field of work
  • Work within the overall framework of RAMM’s Collections Review.





Timescale


The work should be completed by the end of March 2013.





Budget


The indicative budget for this piece of work is £1500, inclusive of expenses.





Fee payment


The fee for this work is payable as follows:


  • 50% on return of signed contract or letter of agreement
  • 50% on acceptance of completed report.





Consultant specification


The successful consultant must have:


  • A higher degree in a relevant area of Museum Ethnography, Anthropology or other relevant subject
  • Specialism in North East African material culture.
  • At least five years’ experience of post-graduate ethnographic or anthropological research and practice.





The successful consultant will ideally have (though not essential):


  • Knowledge and experience of collections review methodologies
  • Practical experience of carrying out collections reviews and / or assessing collections’ significance.





The successful consultant may also have:


  • Understanding of the requirements of Museum Accreditation 2011 and Arts Council’s new priorities for museums
  • An understanding of the latest developments and issues in collections management, including the Museums Association’s Effective Collections and models for assessing significance, would be advantageous, though is not essential.











Submission information


Consultants interested in tendering for this contract should send a CV and Expression of Interest to the address at the end of this document.





The Expression of Interest should provide brief details of how the consultant meets the specification above, including:


·      Details of published material, including URLs where appropriate


·      Details of similar work undertaken


·      How the consultant would propose to carry out this contract, including any refinement of the preferred approach/methodology outlined in this brief


·      The number of days the consultant would be able to dedicate to this work, within the fixed fee available


·      Details of two referees or clients for whom the consultant has delivered similar work (including contact details)





The consultant will be responsible for his or her own tax and National Insurance, and may be required to provide evidence of self-employed status.





The consultant should hold the relevant insurances, including public liability and professional indemnity as appropriate.





Expressions of interest should be sent to:


Claire Gulliver, Collections Review Co-ordinator and Tony Eccles, Curator of Ethnography, Royal Albert Memorial Museum


RAMM Offices, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS







Closing date for Expression of Interest


Friday 11 January 2013, 12 noon





Any questions about this consultancy contract should be emailed to Claire Gulliver at the above address. Please note that Claire works at RAMM on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.





Questions about this collection of material should be emailed to Tony Eccles, Curator of Ethnography, at the above address.







[1] The template is likely to take the form of a set of records exported from RAMM’s FileMaker Pro collections database to a spreadsheet or table, which can then be worked upon / added to by the consultant.



Brief for a Consultant Ethnographer (Central American costume and textiles)


Royal Albert Memorial Museum Collections Review 2012-2013



Specialist collections assessment:

Central American costume in RAMM’s Ethnographic collection





Indicative fee: £1500 inclusive of expenses

Closing date for Expressions of Interest: Friday 11 January 2013, 12 noon



Introduction

The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter seeks a consultant ethnographer, specialising in the costume and textiles of Central America, to assess and grade the significance of approximately 48 Central American items in the museum’s ethnographic collection.



Background: RAMM collections review

Between 2011 and 2013 RAMM is carrying out an extensive review of its collection of over one million objects. The review sets out to assess and grade the collections for historical, cultural or scientific significance and potential for research, audience diversification, learning and income generation.



RAMM’s collections review has two elements:

  1. Preliminary Collections Assessment: primarily carried out internally by non-specialist museum professionals
  2. Expert review of selected material: carried out with input from specialist curators at RAMM, external experts and peers.



This brief is for a piece of work as part of the second element; specialist / expert review.



Why Central American costume?

RAMM’s Ethnography collection includes 314 objects from Central America. Among these are 48 items of clothing, accessories, textiles and personal ornament. Whilst much of the material is visually striking, there is limited archive information relating to it and little interpretation. A preliminary collections assessment has identified this material as being a priority for specialist research and review.



With the collections review underway, RAMM needs to understand the relative significance of different material in this group as fully as possible, in order to prioritise resources appropriately.



What kind of material is involved?

RAMM currently holds approximately 48 items of Central American costume and textiles as part of its Ethnographic collection.



For this commission, we would like the appointed Consultant Ethnographer to review and assess this collection, commenting on their ethnographic, historical and cultural importance.



The material, together with associated documentation, will be made accessible by arrangement in RAMM’s new Collections Study Centre and off-site collections store.



Outcome of consultancy

As a result of this expert review by a consultant, RAMM needs to:



  1. be sure that the Central American costume and textiles are accurately described in the collections information, including information relating to the donor, function, and indigenous community wherever possible.



  1. identify highlights among the material.



  1. have an expert commentary on, and ranking of, the material according to the following criteria:
    1. Provenance and history (eg. connection to a person, place, indigenous group, event, activity, belief, custom, theme, etc)
    2. Representativeness and best examples of type (local, regional, international)
    3. Importance to the study or development of ethnography and our understanding of indigenous communities.



  1. have a categorisation of the items in terms of:
    1. Material which offers a high potential for research or other use
    2. Material which is unlikely to yield much useful information or have other use.



Preferred methodology

The consultant will be expected to:



  1. Review the relevant items in the store or Collections Study Centre, together with associated archival documentation
  2. Check, confirm, amend and expand upon existing collections documentation as appropriate
  3. Provide a brief expert commentary on each object assessed, grouping objects where appropriate and covering provenance, representativeness and importance to the study or development of ethnography and our understanding of indigenous communities, using a supplied template[1]
  4. Assess and grade the relative research or usage potential of objects or groups of objects, giving reasons for each assessment, using the supplied template
  5. Recommend a prioritisation or ranking of the material according to the above criteria. This will be cross-reference-able to RAMM’s collections database in FileMaker Pro and provided in a format which facilitates straightforward transfer of consultancy findings to the database. (The consultant will not be expected to undertake any data transfer himself / herself)
  6. Suggest a sampling strategy for retention or disposal, in relation to the material assessed. For example, this could be a suggestion to retain 100% of the material or to transfer or dispose of 100%, or of sub-groups adjudged to be of lesser importance / relevance to RAMM. Again this will be in a format which facilitates easy transfer of information to RAMM’s collections database.



Deliverables

The consultant will be required to:

  1. Populate a supplied template with his/her findings/assessment in respect of each object or group of objects
  2. Produce a report setting out his/her findings, gradings and recommendations, as outlined in the preferred methodology/approach (above).



Other requirements

The consultant will be expected to:

  • Work to recognised professional and ethical standards for this field of work
  • Work within the overall framework of RAMM’s Collections Review.



Timescale

The work should be completed by the end of March 2013.



Budget

The indicative budget for this piece of work is £1500, inclusive of travel and expenses.



Fee payment

The fee for this work is payable as follows:

  • 50% on return of signed contract or letter of agreement
  • 50% on acceptance of completed report.



Consultant specification

The successful consultant must have:

  • A higher degree in a relevant area of museum ethnography, anthropology or other relevant subject
  • Specialism in Central American costume and textiles
  • At least five years’ experience of post-graduate ethnographic or anthropological research and practice.



The successful consultant will ideally have (though not essential):

  • Knowledge and experience of collections review methodologies
  • Practical experience of carrying out collections reviews and / or assessing collections’ significance.



The successful consultant may also have:

  • Understanding of the requirements of Museum Accreditation 2011 and Arts Council’s new priorities for museums
  • An understanding of the latest developments and issues in collections management, including the Museums Association’s Effective Collections and models for assessing significance, would be advantageous, though is not essential.



Submission information

Consultants interested in tendering for this contract should send a CV and Expression of Interest to the address at the end of this document.



The Expression of Interest should provide brief details of how the consultant meets the specification above, including:

·      Details of published material, including URLs where appropriate

·      Details of similar work undertaken

·      How the consultant would propose to carry out this contract, including any refinement of the preferred approach/methodology outlined in this brief

·      The number of days the consultant would be able to dedicate to this work, within the fixed fee available

·      Details of two referees or clients for whom the consultant has delivered similar work (including contact details)



The consultant will be responsible for his or her own tax and National Insurance, and may be required to provide evidence of self-employed status.



The consultant should hold the relevant insurances, including public liability and professional indemnity as appropriate.



Expressions of interest should be sent to:

Claire Gulliver, Collections Review Co-ordinator and Tony Eccles, Curator of Ethnography, Royal Albert Memorial Museum

RAMM Offices, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS




Closing date for Expression of Interest

Friday 11 January 2013, 12 noon



Any questions about this consultancy contract should be emailed to Claire Gulliver at the above address. Please note that Claire works at RAMM on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.



Questions about the Central American costume and textile sub-collection should be emailed to Tony Eccles, Curator of Ethnography, at the above address.






[1] The template is likely to take the form of a set of records exported from RAMM’s FileMaker Pro collections database to a spreadsheet or table, which can then be worked upon / added to by the consultant.