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What do curatorial departments actually do?
Chris Howgego
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The Challenge Most museum activities rest on curatorial content
Museum has doubled in size Curatorial base has stayed the same (or shrunk) Resources? Communication
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A National Museum in the Centre of England
Well communicated
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Exhibitions
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(and hundreds of others)
Acquisitions (and hundreds of others)
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A World-Class University Museum
Less well communicated
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Getting out into the World
Less evident as not visible in Oxford
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Ashmolean in India Andrew Topsfield in Udaipur
receiving the Colonel James Tod Award Ashmolean in India
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Shelagh Vainker as JS Lee Memorial Senior Fellow 2012-13
all-China museum directors conference, Beijing Ashmolean in China
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Ashmolean in Turkey Chris Howgego and Volker Heuchert
First International Congress of Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics Ashmolean in Turkey
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Ashmolean in Romania and Qatar
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Ashmolean in the USA
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A World-Class University Museum: E-Learning
Being scoped through project funded by Fidelity
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A World-Class University Museum: Teaching
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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
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University Engagement Programme
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Core teaching 2011/12 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 FOR Anthropology Archaeology Byzantine Studies Classics History History of Art Oriental Studies
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A World-Class University Museum: Research
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Research Individual or collaborative Income stream through REF
(Research Excellence Framework) Research projects Funding for projects – Research Facilitator Harriet Warburton
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Research 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?
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Research Seminars 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
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Research on fellowships and short-term contracts
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 Harriet Warburton
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Ashmolean Research Project Applications
15 applications in progress / under consideration Funders: Arts & Humanities Research Council Leverhulme Trust European Research Council Private (3) Fell Fund, University of Oxford College
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Roman Provincial Coinage Online
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
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Islamic Art Online? Francesca Leoni Paul Groves The following institutions have been contacted: Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Museum of History of Science, Oxford British Museum, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Musee du Louvre, Paris David Collection, Copenhagen Museum fur Islamische Kunst, Berlin Benaki Museum, Athens Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait City
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Access to objects and curators for researchers, students, public…
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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
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Archaeological Artefact and Coin Identification Service
2012/13: Number of objects 1431 Number of people 224
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Antiquities Study Room
2011/12 Number of visitors Antiquities Study room: 835 RI study room: ___ 927 Number of objects Teaching: 974 Researchers: ____ NB Object retrieval Antiquities Study Room
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And… Stewardship – conservation, documentation, loans…
Public Engagement – special exhibitions, renewing galleries, tours, talks… Fundraising
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