10.00 Registration and coffee
10.15 Welcome and Domestics
10.20 Introduction and Context: What are Archives? How do museums manage them?
11.20 Break
11.40 Greater Manchester Police Museum case study: Using Police Aliens’ Registers as a resource for family history and community engagement
12.50 Lunch
13.50 Physical care of archive collections: Storage, preservation, conservation & handling
14.50 Tea
15.10 Using archive collections: Access for users, exhibitions, cataloguing, reproduction
16.15 Questions and Close
By the end of the day, participants will have considered:
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Why museums hold archives, what distinguishes them from their other collections and why this is important
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Practical strategies for the appropriate physical care of collections
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Successful ways of exploiting archive collections to attract visitors, complement exhibitions, develop new users and to promote the museum
Each participant will provided with copies of presentation slides and key documents
The day will take the format of a seminar with some group work sessions
The course content is aimed at people with an active involvement in the museum world and is particularly suited to both qualified, non-qualified and volunteer museum staff working in smaller institutions without the benefit of professional support for their archive collections
The training will be delivered by Jon Newman, a local authority archivist and archive and museum consultant, and Duncan Broady, curator of the Greater Manchester Police Museum
A sandwich lunch and refreshments are include on the course
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