Archive for November, 2010

Reflections on Europeana Strategic Briefing (29/11/10)

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Representatives from 27 EU Member States have gathered today at the Hotel Melia in a snowy Luxembourg to attend a 2-day Strategic Briefing on Europeana, the international portal to Europe’s digital cultural heritage. (more…)

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Museums in a Digital Nation - Keynote to UK Museums on the Web 2010

Friday, November 26th, 2010

These are serious times. And it is time to be serious.

The events of recent months, and the cuts that are still to come, are not a temporary aberration. This is not a bump in the road. Museums are entering a new era. We are a country in crisis. A country at war. We have a Coalition that does not fundamentally believe that culture should be funded by the taxpayer. This is not a question of sitting it out, of waiting for the sun to shine again. (more…)

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Dear Coalition, how shall we remember you…?

Monday, November 1st, 2010

The Spending Review announcement of October 20th was characterised by an oddly short-term quality. Having stirred up a foment of public support for cuts to public services, and generated an atmosphere of fear through a combination of strategic slash’n'burn (BECTA, anyone?) and wildly varying numbers (25%, 40%, higher, lower!) the end result was a careful blend of ‘bad, but not as bad as we expected’. (more…)

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