Mark ONeill, Head of Art and Museums

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Knowledge Transfer and Glasgow Museums
Mark ONeill, Head of Art and Museums
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• Glasgow Museums
• Largest civic museum service in the UK
• Staff 333
• Annual Budget 14 Million
• 9 public venues
• Annual Visits 4 million

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• Transferring university knowledge to museums
• 2. Transferring museum (and university)
  knowledge to the public

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University of St Andrews School of Art
History Site visits Student placements Staff
training
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Joint PhDs with University of Edinburgh

• Dye analysis of historic textiles
• AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage,
• joint with UE Chemistry and NMS
• The Hague School, the Burrell Collection

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1.4 million objects

• Natural History
• Arms and Armour
• Fine and Decorative Arts
• Scottish History

Anthropology Ancient Civilisations
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Research-ready Collections
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St Mungos Museum of Religious Life and Art
Our aim is to promote mutual respect among people
of all faiths and none
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Kelvingrove and its audiences

• Prior to closure
• Most visited UK museum outside London
• 1 million visits a year
• 40 of local visits C2DE
• 20 UK tourists
• 10 overseas tourists

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Kelvingrove Display Philosophy

• 19th Century
• One definition of culture
• Communication in lecture mode
• Subject centred
• Taxonomic structure
• Comprehensive
• Object based
• Public education

• 21st century
• Many definitions of culture
• Communication in dialogue mode
• Visitor centred
• Narrative structure
• Selective but varied
• Object based
• Public education

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Kelvingrove Knowledge Framework

• Object based
• Visitor centred
• Storytelling
• Flexible
• Responsive

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An Object based, Storytelling Museum

• Stories
• Selected by curators
• recognise that knowledge cant be transferred
• work with peoples inherent meaning-making
  capacity
• can function at many different levels
• can cut across disciplines
• dont require gaps in the collection to be filled
  with graphics or replicas

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A Visitor-Centred Museum

• Favourite objects
• Prior knowledge and interests
• Learning preferences for new subjects
• Gallery titles/Orientation
• Impact assessments

• Surveys and Focus Groups
• Education Advisory Panel
• Community Forum
• Disability Advisory Panel
• Junior Friends of Glasgow Museums
• Board

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Kelvingrove Conflict Consequence
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Kelvingrove some responses
The Observer Not so much a museum of culture as
of life itself, Kelvingrove is almost unique
part National Gallery, part VA, part British
Museum and Tate all in one building. The
Burlington Magazine 2007 many of the works
presented as pawns in some quest for the lowest
common denominator.
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