Background to the Project: Heritage Curricula and Multiculturalism (HC&M)

Background to the National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia with the final report to be released by the Office of Multicultural Affairs OMA in mid 1992. See also the article by Helen Andreoni in this issue.

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Implementing Aboriginal and Multicultural Policy in the Museum Sector

Helen Andreoni writes on matters which are addressed in the report commissioned by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) by Amareswar Galla (also in this edition of Artlink).

Helen Andreoni

Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory

Book review Australian Art Museums and Public Galleries Directory published by the Art Museums Association of Australia Inc and the National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University 1991.

Naomi Cass

A Continuum of Maori Art

Whatu Aho Rua - Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide Festival. The exhibition Whatu Aho Rua 'weaving with two strands' organised by the Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, is a departure form exhibitions usually seen in New Zealand Galleries.

Mina McKenzie

A Virtue of Necessity: Deaccessioning Without Guilt

De-accessioning is too often characterised as an ill-wind, blowing through the vast and mostly undisturbed reaches of our cultural store-houses capriciously violating the integrity of our collections.

Christopher Saines

If you Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It!

I am particularly troubled about debates such as those illustrated by the publications 'What Price Heritage? - Finance 1989' and 'What value Heritage? DASETT 1990' and Professor Donald Horne's article 'Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1992' on museums, because there is nearly always truth on all sides.

Nelson English

Museums on the Edge

Guest editor for Vol 12 No 1 Museums on the Edge. This edition was founded on a perception of a lack of any quantity of readily available material on the Australian and New Zealand experience of museums.

Louise Dauth

Victoria Moves Towards Museum Accreditation

Accreditation is set to become one of the significant features of the Victorian museum scene in the 1990s. At a time when Victoria might be perceived as out for the count it may seem unlikely to be introducing major developments in the operation of the State's 400 Museums.

Roger Trudgeon

Museums Listings

Selected list of museums and art galleries around Australia.

Louise Dauth

Charging to Disaster: The Introduction of Museum Entry Fees

Museums are complex social phenomena and valuable resources. There's an ecological analogy there; if you mess with even apparently trivial elements of a complex system, the results can be unpredictable, powerful and are most often catastrophic.

Patrick Filmer-Sankey

Conservation: The State of the Art Conservation - Access, Equity and Future Directions

Conservation - access, equity and future directions. Everyone is talking about the effects of the economic climate, some people are calling it a recession and others a depression.

Ian Cook

Urban Regions and the City Centre: A Changing Cultural Relationship

One of the curious things about very large cities is the gulf that exists between the inner city and the outer suburbs or hinterland.

Marla Guppy

The Ownership of Cultural Meaning: Local Museums and Access

According the the Australia Council figures in 1990 a number of people exceeding the entire population of Australia visited the 187 Australian Museums that employed paid staff in 1989/90 at a cost, for maintence, development and operations in excess of $13.00 per head of population, excluding any charges imposed on entry to museums or exhibitions. And what does $13.00 buy for the Museum going public?

Shar Jones

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