Instrumental museum and gallery policy: issues and opportunities

Three workshops sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Workshop 3

Consequences of instrumental museum and gallery policy

Venue

Room AG03, College Building, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB
Please see http://www.city.ac.uk/maps/buildings/college.html

Date/time

Monday 17th March 2008 10.30-16.30

Timetable

09.00-10.30Registration and coffee
10.30-10.40Introduction and summary
10.40-11.20Elizabeth Silva (Open University) Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion project
11.20-12.00Mark Taylor (Museums Association) Response to the McMaster review
12.00-12.40Javier Stanziola (MLA)
12.40-13.30Lunch
13.30-14.10Mark O'Neill (Glasgow Museums) Towards the development of an impact model
14.10-15.30Discussion

Aims

  • To consider the development of a model/theoretical approach/language to articulate the impact (or experience?) of museums and galleries upon individuals and wider society
  • To further explore ways of describing the roles museums and galleries play in everyday life
  • To explore the opportunities for further collaboration between policy makers, practitioners and academic researchers
  • To identify outputs from the three workshops