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What do curatorial departments actually do?

What do curatorial departments actually do?. Chris Howgego. Most museum activities rest on curatorial content Museum has doubled in size Curatorial base has stayed the same (or shrunk) Resources? Communication. The Challenge. A National Museum in the Centre of England.

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What do curatorial departments actually do?

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  1. What do curatorial departments actually do? Chris Howgego

  2. Most museum activities rest on curatorial content • Museum has doubled in size • Curatorial base has stayed the same (or shrunk) • Resources? • Communication The Challenge

  3. A National Museumin the Centre of England Well communicated

  4. Exhibitions

  5. Acquisitions (and hundreds of others)

  6. A World-Class University Museum Less well communicated

  7. Getting out into the World Less evident as not visible in Oxford

  8. Andrew Topsfield in Udaipur receiving the Colonel James Tod Award Ashmolean in India

  9. Shelagh Vainker as JS Lee Memorial Senior Fellow 2012-13 all-China museum directors conference, Beijing Ashmolean in China

  10. Chris Howgego and Volker Heuchert First International Congress of Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics Ashmolean in Turkey

  11. Ashmolean in Romania and Qatar

  12. Ashmolean in the USA

  13. A World-Class University Museum:E-Learning Being scoped through project funded by Fidelity

  14. A World-Class University Museum:Teaching

  15. Teaching • University Engagement Programme (Giovanna Vitelli and team) innovative, cross-disciplinary, new audiences (neuroscience, business, development studies…) • Teaching for other universities (HEFCE funding stream) London, Reading, Warwick, Birmingham, Leicester, Durham… • Core university teaching

  16. University Engagement Programme

  17. Lectures & classes 172 hours – equivalent to stint of 5 full-time lecturers Undergraduate tutorials 135 hours Masters tuition 160 hours Continuing Education 8 hours External 18 hours Graduate supervision 29 students Core teaching 2011/12 FOR • Anthropology • Archaeology • Byzantine Studies • Classics • History • History of Art • Oriental Studies

  18. A World-Class University Museum: Research

  19. Individual or collaborative • Income stream through REF (Research Excellence Framework) • Research projects • Funding for projects – Research Facilitator Research Harriet Warburton

  20. Research Committee – chaired by Professor Craig Clunas • collections-based • led by Documentation, Exhibitions, Teaching… or ‘blue skies’ • may be international, inter-disciplinary • No research strategy, as yet – should we have one? Research

  21. Francesca Leoni ‘”And He taught by the pen”’. The Qur’an and Islamic calligraphy’ Colin Harrison ‘Manet and Britain’ Alexandra Greathead The Ashmolean Raphael Conservation Project Anja Ulbrich Re-excavating and re-contextualising the Cypriot collection at the Ashmolean Diana Greenwald and Jon Whiteley Nineteenth Century French art and the peasantry from an economic perspective Shailendra Bhandare A Bit of Bunting: Jubilees and other royal celebrations during the Raj in a numismatic light Research Seminars

  22. Mercedes Cerón Sackler Junior Research Fellow Francis Douce (1757 – 1834) prints and drawings bequeathed 1834 • over 20,000 prints to rehouse and catalogue • study of Douce as a collector • blog for public Researchon fellowships and short-term contracts Harriet Warburton

  23. 15 applications in progress / under consideration Funders: • Arts & Humanities Research Council • Leverhulme Trust • European Research Council • Private (3) • Fell Fund, University of Oxford • College Ashmolean Research Project Applications

  24. Roman Provincial Coinage Online http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/ 125,000 users 20 million hits Berlin, Staatliche Museen Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet Glasgow, Hunterian Museum London, British Museum Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung New York, American Numismatic Society Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

  25. Islamic Art Online?Francesca LeoniPaul GrovesThe following institutions have been contacted:Bodleian Libraries, OxfordMuseum of History of Science, OxfordBritish Museum, LondonVictoria and Albert Museum, LondonMusee du Louvre, ParisDavid Collection, CopenhagenMuseum fur Islamische Kunst, BerlinBenaki Museum, AthensMuseum of Islamic Art, DohaMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAl-Sabah Collection, Kuwait City

  26. Access to objects and curatorsfor researchers, students, public…

  27. Western Art Print Room 2011/12 Number of visitors 3764 NB More than British Museum Print Room Of which, drop in: 62% + teaching students and supervising groups (New Douce): monthly average 97 people

  28. Archaeological Artefact and Coin Identification Service 2012/13: Number of objects 1431 Number of people 224

  29. 2011/12 Number of visitors Antiquities Study room: 835 RI study room: 86 ___ 927 Number of objects Teaching: 974 Researchers: 1856 ____ 2830 NB Object retrieval Antiquities Study Room

  30. Stewardship – conservation, documentation, loans… Public Engagement – special exhibitions, renewing galleries, tours, talks… Fundraising And…

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