Increasing the Mobility of Collections Conference Report
The major points and recommendations made at the conference are outlined in the following Conference Report
 Mobility of Collections Conference Report (PDF 536kb)
"Indemnities" breakout session - Increasing the Mobility of Collections Presidency Conference
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Conference delegates - Increasing the Mobility of Collections Presidency Conference
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Questions and Answers - Increasing the Mobility of Collections Presidency Conference
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Morning Presentation - Increasing the Mobility of Collections Presidency Conference
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Dorota Folga Januszewska, Director of Collection and Research,
National Museum, Warsaw
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Sharing our cultural heritage
Encouraging greater mobility of collections between European museums will enable more people to enjoy and learn from the many and varied objects from our common cultural heritage.
What is mobility of collections?
A great part of Europe's cultural heritage is represented through its 30,000 museums, which allow Europeans to access and benefit from approximately 22 billion objects, of which over 70% are in storage.
Of all these museums, only 3,000 or 1% hold temporary exhibitions. Studies show that such exhibitions can greatly increase the visitor numbers to museums. They also facilitate the enjoyment and study of historical and artistic works and themes from the same country and abroad.
To be able to borrow from other museums it is essential for all museums, large and small, to adopt best practices that encourage the mobility of such objects. We aim to achieve wider public access to art and culture, through encouragement of scholarly and educational exhibitions at the highest level of quality .
Mobility of collections conference 2005
(by invitation only)
The UK Presidency of the EU has invited representatives from all member states to a conference in Manchester on 28 November 2005. Hosted by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, this gathering of experts and lead officials will explore practical recommendations for sharing our cultural heritage.
The conference programme will focus on the following key themes:
- Improving mobility through Government Indemnity Schemes to lower the cost of loans
- Sharing best practice and standardising procedures, to increase the institutions sharing their collections
- Building up trust between professionals through increased contacts, enlarging the “club” of present lenders
The conference findings will feed into an EU-wide action plan, to be drawn up under the Finnish Presidency in 2006.
We will publish further details of the conference, as well as key documents and findings, as they are available.
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