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Nowra - Bomaderry, New South Wales
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Read ‘Fortunately the Milk’ by @neilhimself to miss 6 last night and tonight. She declared it the silliest book she’d ever heard and immediately asked me to read it again tomorrow. She also loved spotting pirates from ’Pirate Stew’.
Lauretta Morton OAM listing the requirements of a ‘grown up gallery’… cafe, loading dock, education space, dual entry and exits, digital outdoor screens. #amaga2023
I feel like I’m tweeting into the void here - anyone else feel the story of the German tank was a total strawman argument in this case? #amaga2023
‘It’s not loosing items or collections from your museum, because when you walk out the front door you’ll have relationships with that community’. #amaga2023
‘The amount of brotherhood and goodwill we share with that museum as a result of repatriation is extraordinary.’ Obvious outcomes for doing the right thing and being human focussed not organisation tradition focussed. #amaga2023
Ummm what!? ‘We’ve taken the objects off display as we didn’t want to keep having the conversation and explain ourselves. And now they’ll be off display forever.’ Wow! After all the discussion we’ve had this week this is how we’re opening up the final session! 🤯 #amaga2023
Did Russel Briggs say that the global repatriation movement was endangering global museums? I really hope I misheard and / or he provides context for that. #amaga2023
Okay - seems like he’s referring to the lack of global frameworks and processes to support consistency and best practise. #amaga2023
‘It’s a great initiative and it serves a cause, but it doesn’t serve community.’ Reminder that having the right stakeholders part of the project from the point of origin is critical. #amaga2023
Don’t rush home guide and policy distributed by @thebiganxiety to help with duty of care for cultural activities following trauma #amaga2023
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Parra girls VR project by fEEL Lab @UNSW as discussed in the session on trauma recovery and yarra ranges museum #amaga2023
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The cultural shift of a digital transformation - moving from small number of gatekeepers and controllers to open access for all staff. #amaga2023
Aiming for perfection would have just reintroduced the old way of doing things. There was a need to disrupt so went for the minimum viable product. #amaga2023
‘We need to ask the questions and listen deeply to the feedback’ Brad Coleman from John Curtin Gallery reminding us of the basic fundamentals for project success. #amaga2023
Thanks to @sebchan and @auchmill for a sessions of radical honesty. Hearing from leaders you really admire, and hearing them as humans and showing those moment of learning and imperfect approaches is really useful in my own attempts to navigate leadership #amaga2023
‘Education has taken on this practise of exchange and listening to communities but we haven’t absorbed this into the culture of the wider institution.’ Not sure this is true in aust / nz - I hope that change is happening more and more frequently. #amaga2023
Note to self - buy (and read) this book
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Now @LauraRaicovich is singing from my song sheet. Our recent strategic planning process identified a need to do fewer exhibitions but those we do need to have deeper community engagement and more thoughtful programming against them. #amaga2023
Just as @KateLarsenKeys discussed yesterday that traditional boards go over and above legislated requirements, @LauraRaicovich calls out the idea that museums engaging in political dialogue will threaten their tax exempt status. #amaga2023
There is power in knowing what is actually required and what are social / traditional norms that can be questioned and pushed back against. #amaga2023