1. What do curatorial departments actually do?
Chris Howgego

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

3. A National Museum in the Centre of England
Well communicated

4. Exhibitions

5. (and hundreds of others)
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. Ashmolean in India 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. Ashmolean in Turkey 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. 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

18. A World-Class University Museum: Research

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

20. 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?

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Access to objects and curators for 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. 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

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