Seminar – April 2001
National Collecting – Managing the symptoms and side effects
Held 23 April 2001, Kamberra Wine Centre, Canberra.
Event archive
ARC Journal Launch – January 2001
Held 29 January 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Images from the launch are attached.
Seminar – October 2000
The Balancing Act – Access and Preservation in Museums
ARC invited museum professionals to attend their seventh professional development seminar which was held on 5 – 6 October 2000 at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. A broad range of sessions were developed to address the theme of the seminar. This was presented on two days and ending with a tour of the new National Museum of Australia site. The theme of the seminar gave recognition to the continuing balance faced by museums in providing access to collections while at the same time preserving those very same collections. This seminar looked at the various ways museums provide access to their collections and at the same time examined the preservation requirements for museum objects. The seminar raised an awareness of the responsibilities museum professionals face for managing the preservation of collections and looked at disaster planning, risk management, exhibitions in non-standard museum environments and access to and preservation of digital collections.
Conference – August 1999
Legislation, Litigation and Lust: Museums and the law
The ARC Professional Development Seminar – Legislation, Litigation and Lust: Museums and the law, was hosted by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, from 12-13 August 1999.The theme of this two day conference gave recognition to the fact that an embrangle of ownership theories, import/export policies, property laws and international and national leglislation today surrounds the material heritage of humankind. This conference looked at how such laws operate within the framework of cultural institutions. Through an examination of these issues museum, gallery and cultural workers gained an incomparable understanding of their roles, responsibilities and capacity to affect events. The conference offered the most up-to-date information and analysis from a range of professional, government, academic and industry perspectives.The first day of the conference addressed issues related to the international movement of cultural property, import/export regulations and other legislation matters including the illegal trade in threatened and endangered wildlife.The second day of the conference investigated themes related to our legal responsibilities. Contracts regarding exhibitions and loans were formally addressed. Attention was drawn towards the main legislation within museums as it affects the acquisition, disposal and repatriation of collections. In addition, a special session covered the issue of firearms and dangerous artefacts held in museum collections.