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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

ANNUAL REVIEW 2009-2010

THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 SWOT ANALYSIS 4 PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM STRATEGIC PLAN 6 PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 27 MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 29 FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR 2009-10 34 APPENDIX 1: Courses involving museum staff and collections 38 APPENDIX 2: Qualitative Feedback on Teaching by Museum Staff 39 APPENDIX 3: Esteem measures 45 APPENDIX 4: Feedback on Museum policy & practice 48 APPENDIX 5: External organisations we work with 52 APPENDIX 6: Maximising the University Brand: Manchester Museum Action Plan 2010 53

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APPENDIX 7: Publications by museum staff 2009-10 55

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INTRODUCTION Despite the constraints of the recession and the adverse public funding forecast, in many ways 2009-10 was one of the most successful years the Manchester Museum has ever had. Visitor numbers increased for the third year running and were up 29% on the previous year to 340,000, the highest recorded figure in the Museum’s history. We have had a much more extensive public programme this year, including activities for every day of the school holidays, which has proved very popular, particularly as we are a free and safe family venue at a time of reduced discretionary spend. Our school numbers increased by 10%, and the overall level of visitor satisfaction reached 99% of those surveyed. The previous year’s exhibition on Lindow Man, already winner of Design Week Magazine’s exhibition of the year, won ‘Best Archaeological Innovation’ at the British Archaeology Awards in July 2010, and feedback from international and national colleagues confirms that we are highly regarded for our innovative practice. Funding from HEFCE’s Museums & Galleries Fund was reviewed in the course of the year. The University Museums Group, chaired by Nick Merriman, was formally engaged with the review team and also mounted an advocacy campaign with the Museums Association and the Art Fund, with the particular assistance of Lord Alan Howarth. The outcome was that the fund has been retained, and that allocations for 2011-12 will be a below-inflation cash increase for the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Allocations for future years are not clear. A major development towards the end of the year was the restructuring of the staffing of the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery in anticipation of significant public funding cuts and taking advantage of the availability of the voluntary severance scheme. The Museum and Gallery now share services relating to collections care & access, learning & engagement, finance, marketing, house services and visitor services, while retaining distinctiveness in line with their different audiences and collections. Moving early and positively to reshape ourselves has enabled us to face the future with confidence, and has been seen in the museum sector as a ground-breaking example of innovation in management terms. Progress was made on the development of international partnerships, particularly within the EU but also with Manchester’s twin city of Wuhan in China, and national partnerships continued to be fruitful, particularly with the British Museum. The main thematic focus for the year was centred on the work of Charles Darwin, where we developed, in partnership with a large number of University academics, an integrated programme of exhibitions (five in total), public lectures and activities, web resources, schools learning programmes, and university teaching, exploring science and its social contexts. This provides a template for how we wish to undertake public engagement work in the future. A good deal of work was undertaken preparing for the refurbishments of four major galleries, one of which opens as ‘Living Planet’ in April 2011, and three as ‘Ancient Worlds’ in 2012. Again, these projects aim to engage the work of Faculty members and the university with large, diverse audiences. Both projects draw heavily upon partnerships with University academics. Museum staff continue to support the learning and research agendas of Faculty members by contributing to and supporting student teaching, adding a distinctive, object-focused element to taught courses. Fifty eight HE courses (83% of which are University of Manchester) drew upon

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the Museum. The number of research activities involving museum collections and staff increased by 31% over previous years. Although their main role is facilitating access to the collections by others, a number of curators are supported in their own research activities where these contribute to museum programmes. For example our Curator of Arthropods Dmitri Logunov described twelve new species of spiders: four from Africa, six from Turkey and two from Iran. In terms of sustainability our work continued with a saving of 89% energy costs in the Fossils gallery in one year, through its relamping with LED lights using the Revolving Green Fund. and we were awarded Silver status under the Green Tourism Business Scheme certification programme in our first year of membership SWOT ANALYSIS Strengths

• The Museum’s two key foci on intercultural understanding and promoting sustainability enables clear linkage to university, city-region and national priorities

• New management structure and workforce development initiatives have led to more cohesive team working and greater focus on delivery

• Focus on delivery and high level of project funding has led to increased performance particularly in public offer • Creative, committed staff and excellent collections in a listed building • Very large, dedicated audience, many of whom come from the local area. • The Museum’s work on environmental sustainability through its work with Carbon Trust and Global Action Plan has made it a sector

leader Weaknesses

• Much achievement is dependent on project funding • Building infrastructure needs constant maintenance

Opportunities

• Restructuring of the Museum and the Whitworth at the end of the academic year has enabled us to make the likely savings necessary and will enable both institutions to work together much more closely and effectively

• Re-emphasised commitment by President to University’s Goal 3 on Social Engagement represents an excellent opportunity to bring the Museum closer to the heart of the University

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• Work on the distinctiveness of a University of Manchester education represents an opportunity for the Museum & Gallery to play a role in student participation in ‘Grand Challenge’ themes and volunteering

• The economic climate, together with our ability to undertake excellent programming will allow the Museum to continue to expand its visitor numbers and demographics as it represents a good value day out for tourists and local people

• Increasing co-operation between cultural institutions in Manchester can lead to greater opportunities for international and national collaborations

• Our emphasis on tackling issues such as biodiversity, volunteering, sense of place and worklessness represents an opportunity to work towards greater links with City Council objectives

• Renaissance in the Regions funding (currently £460,000 p.a.) will be replaced from 2011-12 with ‘core museum’ funding: Museum and Gallery are well-positioned to be part of the Manchester core museum proposition, with the City Art Gallery

• Invitation to become a strategic partner (with the Whitworth) in the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s new core funding programme around social engagement in museums and galleries offers the cultural equivalent to the ‘Beacons for Public Engagement’ scheme.

Threats

• Current HEFCE funding of university museums and galleries is uncertain beyond 2011-12 • Cuts to University budget may lead to reduced museum funding • Raising the Game NWDA funding (£330,000 over 3 years) ends 31 March 2011 – no possibility of renewal • Restructuring of Museum and Gallery to share many services has led to loss of 22 staff between the two institutions: some decline in

level of provision is inevitable Key Actions

• Continue to tackle points raised in previous OPR around increasing student and academic use of the Museum • Continue to roll out provision of shared services between the Museum and the Gallery: this should ensure that necessary cuts can be

met without major damage to public and academic provision • The Museum Director, as Chair of the University Museums Group, will lead, with colleagues from Oxford and Cambridge, national

advocacy on continued dedicated HEFCE funding for university museums and galleries • Work with Manchester City Galleries to ensure that the University’s Museum and Gallery are part of the Manchester ‘Core Museum’

proposal to DCMS for continued core funding post-Renaissance. • Work closely with the Goal 3 Steering Group to embed Museum and Gallery in the University’s Social Responsibility programme • Work with Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Whitworth to develop first year of core funded programme for social engagement work • Work more closely with City Council on common objectives

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PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM STRATEGIC PLAN As with the previous year, the Museum developed an Operational Plan for 2009-10, which was cross-referenced to the 2015 agenda and to the agendas of other funders such as HEFCE and the Renaissance in the Regions scheme. The Plan was based around six strategic objectives, and progress against these objectives is summarised here. Within this it addresses the action points which arose from last year’s OPR. 1. Establish and maintain the Museum’s high regional, national and international standing as a university museum Museum staff are consulted constantly by researchers from around the world, and staff are linked to global networks of colleagues in universities, museums and related organisations. The collections of the Manchester Museum are widely recognised as being of world class importance, containing thousands of type specimens and material of particular scientific and cultural importance. It is important to bear in mind that apart from the Museum Academic Joint Appointments (part-time in Museum and part-time in different Schools), no museum staff are on academic grades, which means that the Museum is not in receipt of QR funding. National and international collaborations The Museum is involved in a series of EU-funded projects: Museums and Municipalities with University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne), the Louvre, the City of Split and ENCAT (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres), investigates models for engagement and alignment between museums and local government. The project ends with a conference in Brussels and a presentation of an advisory White Paper to the European Commission in December 2010.

Museum Literacy (MUSLI) researches museum visits and engagement for adults of low educational attainment, and is a partnership with Fondazione Ritzcarraldo (Turin), Foundation for Museums and Visitors (Budapest), European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres, Ufficio Cultura Italiano (Bolzano). Associated partners are the Municipality of Turin, Musée du Louvre (Paris), Nord-Pas-de-Calais region and the Hungarian Museum Association (Budapest). The MUSLI conference, Cultural Learning: Making a Difference, was held at The Manchester Museum, 2-4 November 2009 ‘Volunteers for Cultural Heritage’, a partnership between the Slovenian Museums Association, Ljubljana (Project leader), Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Museo del Tessuto di Prato, ECCOM (European Centre for Cultural Organisation and Management), Rome, Amitié, Bologna (all Italy), MUSIS (Association for supporting museums and private collections in Styria), Graz, Austria, and the European Museum Forum Trust, Bristol, is developing and delivering a series of training programmes for individuals in charge of running innovative and established volunteer programmes.

The Museum worked as a partner in the national ‘Darwin 200’ programme and staff were heavily involved in workshops and seminars around

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this. Following on from this, the Museum is a partner in the International Year of Biodiversity programme and this has influenced the development of the forthcoming ‘Living Planet’ gallery. The Museum was a key partner in the ‘Green Fix’ programme- a partnership between Manchester City Council, Groundwork and the Manchester Museum. This initiative explored the attitudes of the people of Manchester to the local environment. Members of the City Council Environmental Campaigns Team staffed a stand in the museum through May to ask members of the museum audience to contribute to this initiative. Responses gathered in the museum represented a very substantial proportion of the total number of surveys obtained, which exceeded 1,000 in total. Henry McGhie contributed towards the development, and action plan, of the forthcoming Biodiversity Action Plan for Manchester, led by the City Council. Particular emphases are on communicating biodiversity in the Museum and on engaging with all of the teaching, research and social responsibility agendas of the university in the development and delivery of the plan. We progressed further our first formal international collaborations, with Wuhan Museum in China and with the National Museum of Natural History in Quito, Ecuador. In Ecuador we have established a link through Johan Oldekop of the Faculty of Life Sciences, who is undertaking research work on integrating conservation and sustainable development there. Johan took resources from us for children in San Jose de Payamino and Chontacocha. The next step is to establish how this could best fit into our education programme, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Manchester, the government’s Sustainable School programme and the new Living Planet gallery. We have also begun to develop relations with the Museum of Natural Science in Quito, which receives many visits from primary schools and where there is great potential for collaboration around the issues of environmental sustainability in both countries. We delivered a web cam to the Museum in the (northern) summer to improve communications. We are hoping to set up a link between Manchester schools and schools in Ecuador linked to our Amazon outreach session. The Wuhan link was facilitated by Manchester City Council, which is twinned with Wuhan, and a grant from the British Council which allowed our Curator of Living Cultures, Stephen Welsh, to visit Wuhan in January 2010 and to discuss collaboration. This was followed up by a visit to the Museum by a delegation from Wuhan including the Deputy Mayor and Head of Culture, for the opening of our British Museum loan exhibition, ‘China: Journey to the East’ in September 2010. In addition to the China exhibition, the Museum continued to develop its ongoing partnership with the British Museum through its Partnerships UK programme by hosting two curators from China as part of the BM’s International Curatorial Training Programme, and by being the principal regional partner for the BM’s ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ programme. This involved co-ordinating eight museums in Greater Manchester to propose ten objects that signified Manchester’s importance in world history, and developing regional programming around ‘A History of the World’ together with the BBC and the BM. This included a mini-series on Radio Manchester focusing on the ten Manchester objects. In addition, the Museum hosted the British Museum exhibition ‘Made in Africa, Portrait of an African Ruler’ (5 December 2009 to 7 February 2010), and in November 2009 the Directors of the Museum and the Gallery were invited to speak to a meeting of BM trustees about its national partnership programme.

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Our shared Museum-Academic Joint Appointment (MAJA) with SEAES, Dr Phil Manning, has many active and productive international research collaborations in palaeontology, most of which draw on the Museum’s collections. These include the Institute of Geology at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (Beijing), the Carmen Funes Museum of Palaeontology in Plaza Huincal, Argentina, Stanford University, the Universities of Oregon, Utah, Pennsylvania, Barcelona, Copenhagen and Toronto. Head of Collections Henry McGhie is a partner in Oslo University’s project ‘Animals as Symbols and Signs’ with collaborators from the University of Milwaukee, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), and Virginia Commonwealth University. This project concludes this year, leading to an anthology of papers aimed at an undergraduate/postgraduate audience and intended to be published by the University of Virginia Press. The project is also expected to lead to a virtual exhibition, due to be developed next year. Henry was invited to the University of Oslo for two weeks as a Visiting Guest Professor and gave a presentation to university colleagues and staff at the Zoological Museum (the national zoology museum) on research and public outcomes in university museums, as well as participating in a workshop in Oslo in June. The Museum has been a partner in developing a successful bid to the HLF to provide trainee curatorial posts in the natural sciences during the next two years; other partners include the Natural History Museum, Leeds Museum, and Hereford Museum. Similarly, the Museum is a partner in another HLF funded project, in partnership with the British Museum, which will provide trainee curatorial positions for curators and curatorial assistants of the future. We began a partnership with the world-renowned conservation foundation Norden’s Ark Conservation Centre, Sweden with a one-week exchange visit by our Vivarium Assistant, Adam Bland. Staff from Norden’s Ark will be visiting Manchester Museum in 2011 for specialist staff training with Andrew Gray, Curator of Herpetology. National and International conferences, seminars and practice-based publications As a university museum we think it is essential that we reflect on our practice and that we share this with colleagues. As a result, staff are frequently invited to speak at national and international conferences to talk about the Museum’s collections and practice, and the research stimulated by them. For example, our Museology MAJA Sam Alberti was a keynote in the conference ‘The aesthetics of nature and heritage in museums’, University of Oslo, October 2009, and was invited speaker at two other conferences, at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald (August 2009) and another at the University of Oslo (October 2009). Our Palaeontology MAJA Phil Manning was a keynote at conferences of the US Annual Association of Avian Veterinarians (Aug 2010), at the Geological Society of America Teachers Association, Wilmington Delaware (May 2010), and at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Science, Seminar series (May 2010). Our Curator of Egypt and Sudan, Karen Exell, was invited to participate in the CIPEG conference in Montelpulciano (August 2010). Nick Merriman was invited to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Sydney, Australia on the future of archaeological collections (November 2010). Pete Brown, Head of Learning, was invited speaker, for two talks on the display of human remains at the first Biennial Graduate Student Conference: “New Directions in Museum Ethics” at The Institute of Museum Ethics, Seton Hall University, New Jersey USA, and at the MA in Museum

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Studies Programme there (November 2010). He was also invited to give a presentations on Lindow Man: A Bog Body Controversy, at the CRESC conference: Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change 1-4 September 2009. Henry McGhie participated in a research workshop on cultural interpretations of animals at the University of Oslo in June (2010). Lindy Crewe was invited to present papers on her research at ICAANE in London in April 2010, the University of Tubingen (November 2010), Cyprus Museum, Nicosia (December 2010) and University of Vienna (January 2011). She was also invited to give the annual Crystal Bennett lecture for the Council for British Research in the Levant at UCL (October 2010). We are also regularly visited by those interested in the distinctive practice of university museums. On 4 May 2010 we were visited by 19 delegates from the Council for Norwegian Universities & University Colleges, whose feedback (see Appendix 5 below) showed that they considered the Museum to be leading practice in this area. The Museum continues to organise international conferences itself and host those organised by academics within the University. A particular highlight in 2009-10 was ‘Egypt in its African Context’ (3-4 Oct 2009) which examined the under-explored African elements of Ancient Egyptian culture and attracted participants from Guyana, Nigeria and the USA. Our curator Karen Exell is currently editing the proceedings with contributions from a number of these international participants. The Museum also hosted the International Conference ‘Museums and Restitution’ (8-9 July 2010) organised by the Centre for Museology which also attracted an international audience of academics and museum staff from India, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Holland, Norway and Germany. A report of this conference appeared in the Museums Journal, the leading publication for the UK cultural sector.

Museum staff Henry McGhie, Jeff Horsley and Pete Brown were invited to contribute a chapter on the Museum’s Darwin programme to a book on communicating science subjects. Michael Whitworth contributed a chapter to a book titled ‘Retailing in the Heritage Industry’. International loans The Museum is used extensively for loans of material for research internationally and for international exhibitions. In 2009-10 these included loans of insects and spiders to Japan; Graze, Russia; Czech Republic; Germany; loans of plants to Spain, Germany, Illinois, Christchurch (New Zealand), Barcelona. Loans of zoology specimens were made to Spain and the Netherlands and ethnographic material to the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. Earth sciences material was loaned to Angers and Amherst College. In total loans of 150 items were made from the humanities collections. International media work As part of his role as a MAJA between the Museum and SEAES, Phil Manning has devoted a good deal of time this year to developing a popular profile for palaeontology at Manchester through TV and radio. He has researched, written and presented a series for National Geographic (‘Jurassic CSI’) consisting of six 1 hour episodes to be shown in February 2011, that will be transmitted in 180 countries. The

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series showcases the application of new technologies and methods to vertebrate palaeontology and highlights research from the University of Manchester from the Faculty of Life Sciences (from neuroscience to locomotion), Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (from DNA to proteomics), School of Materials (the new Henry Mosey X-Ray Centre), the Manchester Museum (Andrew Gray’s collaborative work with FLS and Manning’s work on various aspects of collections), Computer Science (Finite element modelling on super computers), Wolfson Molecular Research Centre (Proteomic and Amino Acid work), Williamson Molecular Research Centre (imaging and analysis of biomarkers) and the School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences (Palaeontology to Geochemistry).He also contributed to all episodes of a recent BBC series on palaeontology (‘Fossil Detectives’ eight 30 minute episodes in 2009) raising the profile of the Manchester team further. Dr Manning also makes regular contributions to local (BBC Radio Manchester), national (BBC Radio 5, NPR) and international (BBC World Service) radio programmes. He is currently exploring new ways of engaging the public with museum natural history specimens with NPR (USA).

Our MAJA with the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, Joyce Tyldesley, has also undertaken media work in relation to her book on Cleopatra, with interviews on the On Point NPR USA show in June 2010, on the Today programme on Radio 4 in July and on the Talking History programme in August. Meetings have been held with the Head of the International Relations Office to ensure that the Office is up to date on developments at the Museum, and that academics promoting the University overseas can speak authoritatively about the Museum and that Museum staff travelling overseas can promote the University.

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2. Ensure that the Museum is key to the teaching, learning and research programmes of the University Teaching and Learning The use of the collection and staff expertise for teaching HE courses has increased considerably in recent years, both within the University of Manchester and beyond. There are now 58 HE courses using collections and staff, of which 83% are University of Manchester and 17% external (see a list in Appendix). Museum staff also assist in field courses in Life Sciences and Geology, host student visits to the collections, and supervise student dissertations. The Museum is also central to the University’s on-line Certificate Course in Egyptology, which currently reaches over 100 students throughout the world, and uses the Museum’s collections as a springboard for learning about Ancient Egypt. Following the last OPR we were asked to provide more qualitative feedback on the courses and our staff’s input to them. These are given in the Appendix. The Head of Collections & Curator of Zoology, Henry McGhie, Curator of Botany, Leander Wolstenholme and Curator of Herpetology, Andrew Gray, were reappointed as Honorary Scientific Advisers in the Faculty of Life Sciences in recognition of the Museum’s ongoing commitment to engaging with and promoting Faculty teaching, research and public engagement. Research The Museum’s main function in relation to research is to facilitate the use of the collections for research by others. Research activities are defined as ongoing collaborations, publications and other forms of work which use the collection or staff. These have averaged 600 per annum over the last five years. In 2009-10, 867 research activities drew on collections or staff expertise, an increase of 31%, caused to a large extent by a concerted effort by Museum staff to encourage UG and PG students to use the museum for dissertation and other projects. Research partnerships The Museum-Academic Joint Appointments (MAJAs) for 2009-10 were in Archaeology, Palaeontology, Museology and with the Centre for Biomedical Egyptology. Research projects which involve the Museum’s collections with which they are associated include: • ‘The afterlife of animals’ – looking at the values attributed to animal specimens in museums, including academics from UCL, Roehampton,

University of the West of England, and the University of Edinburgh

• A major project on dinosaur locomotion which includes collaboration with The Natural History Museum, University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool, and Manchester Metropolitan University as well as six U.S. and two European HEIs.

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Non-academic staff also participate in research projects drawing on the Museum’s collections in collaboration with academics from the University of Manchester and other institutions. For example, the Curator of Entomology is working on a project to produce a complete inventory and analysis of the jumping spiders of Central Asia (Salticidae) with academics in Finland, Sweden, Russia and Kazakhstan, and the Curator of Mineraology & Petrology is undertaking a re-examination of the mineralization in the northern Lake District, with colleagues from the Natural History Museum and the University of Newcastle. The Head of Collections & Curator of Zoology is continuing to work on the biography of ornithologist and collector Henry Dresser. This involves collaboration with a PhD student at Queen’s University (Ottawa). The Curator of Egypt and Sudan and the Head of Conservation are working on a collaborative research project on faience with colleagues from Manchester Metropolitan University, and the Daresbury Research Lab. The Head of Conservation is also working on a project with National Museums Liverpool, the RAF Museum and the International Centre for Digital Content at Liverpool John Moores University to develop an online learning activity for 13-18 year olds. The Curator of Herpetology has an ongoing project with the Faculty of Life Sciences, Aalborg Zoo and Universities of Glasgow and Aarhus to study and preserve biodiversity in association with the indigenous community of San Jose de Payamino, Ecuador.

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3. Provide a first-class visitor experience through excellent services and innovative programmes The following exhibitions and installations were held in the course of the year: Made in Africa: portrait of an Ife ruler (5 December 2009-7 February 2010) A British Museum tour of one of the highlights of African art and culture, exhibited in Manchester prior to the BM’s major exhibition on the Ife culture. Darwin Festival (August 2008-August 2010) The central focus for the programme in 2009-10 was a festival celebrating the anniversaries of Charles Darwin’s birth and of the publication of ‘On The Origin of Species’. It consisted of a major temporary exhibition, four ancillary exhibitions, a major programme of events, a community outreach programme, a schools programme and web resources. This programme was funded by the NWDA as part of the ‘Raising the Game Initiative’, Wellcome Tust and BBSRC.

Charles Darwin: evolution of a scientist (3 October 2009-30 August 2010) This major exhibition, funded through the North West Development Agency’s Raising the Game programme, showed Charles Darwin's story unfold through larger than life illustrations in a graphic novel style alongside rarely-seen objects and specimens, some collected by Darwin himself. Alongside items from the Museum’s collection, was material borrowed from the Natural History Museum, , Royal Geographical Society, and National Museums Liverpool. An extensive accompanying programme explored the reaction to Darwin's ideas and their impact on science and society as well as Manchester's links to Darwin's ideas - from the story of the Peppered Moth to the history of The Manchester Museum. Nature Discovery (opened 8 August 2009) Nature Discovery was developed to introduce to younger visitors and their families the skills used by scientists and naturalists; observing, listening, sorting, comparing. Devised as three environments, owlwood, oceandeep, and flowermeadow, Nature Discovery combines collection objects with innovative graphics and soundscapes. In Darwin's Footsteps (5 September 2009-31 January 2010) An exhibition by Ben Hall, one of Britain's foremost wildlife photographers, that showed large colour photographs, taken recently in many of the locations Darwin visited in South America, alongside quotations from Darwin’s accounts of his journey.

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Moston Steps Darwin community exhibition (22 January-11 April 2010, at North City Library) A group of young people from the Moston Steps Project (a complementary education service) worked with The Manchester Museum to put together this exhibition about evolution and Charles Darwin, as part of the Museum's Darwin Festival and its Museum Comes to You service. Big cats and Hindu carving sat alongside artwork produced by the Moston Steps Project. nanoq: flat out and bluesome (13 February-11 July 2010) An exhibition by artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson featuring photographs of 33 stuffed polar bears and their individual stories, revealing the uneasy relationship between the wild and its representation in our museums, galleries and media. The photographs were the culmination of a project in which they tried to trace all of the taxidermied polar bears in the UK and included an image of the Museum’s polar bear, housed in the 1st floor Animal Life gallery.

Reflective Room (6 July-31 October 2010, Courtyard outside Museum entrance) A new temporary structure called Reflective Room was constructed in our courtyard, enabling visitors to sit and relax whilst reflecting on their surroundings. It was chosen as the winning design in a competition between 5th year Architecture students from the Prototype and Re_Map studio units at the Manchester School of Architecture (msa). 35 students submitted designs, five of which were short-listed for detailed development. Renderings of the five short-listed entries were displayed in the Museum alongside a scale model of the winner. The winning entry, built from marine ply and covered in black ceramic tiles (sponsorship from Pilkingtons Ltd) proved to be a challenging exercise in precision computer aided machining, constructed from hundreds of unique pieces, each slotted together on site. The pavilion was enjoyed by many visitors over the summer as a space to eat lunch, socialise, or just to sit and watch the clouds go by, reflected in its ceramic surface. Award The previous year’s exhibition on Lindow Man, already winner of Design Week Magazine’s exhibition of the year, won ‘Best Archaeological Innovation’ at the British Archaeology Awards in July 2010. Gallery redevelopment work The Museum is currently engaged on a long term programme of major refurbishments to its galleries, most of which are 25 years old and inappropriate for current visitor needs. The first to reopen will be the refurbished Mammals Gallery which will become the new ‘Living Planet’ gallery in April 2011. With a modest budget of £400,000 from NWDA, DCMS/Wolfson fund and various trusts, the gallery will examine the relationship between people and the environment and seeks to re-engage visitors with nature and connect them to environmental challenges. It is intended to turn visitors into activists, who actively participate in the shaping of the future through their personal choices and actions, mitigating the challenges of climate change and habitat loss. It will provide a showcase for academic work undertaken in the University on a wide spectrum of subjects, from environmental sciences to psychology and well-being. Designers villa eugénie are working on a spectacular

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installation that brings out the best of the original, listed showcases and critiques the Museum as an institution of modernity. Detailed information and sign-posts to related activities will be provided through a specially developed smartphone application that will also be used by Visitor Services staff to assist visitors to access further contextual information. Plans are also currently developing for the refurbishment of the three galleries of Ancient Egypt and Mediterranean Archaeology which will reopen in October 2012 as ‘Ancient Worlds’. We have a Round 1 commitment from the Heritage Lottery Fund for £0.75 million towards the £1.6 million budget and have raised just short of £0.5 million as partnership funding so far. Much of the work of the Curators of Archaeology and of Egypt & Sudan was taken up this year in developing plans with designers Opera Amsterdam, and in undertaking consultations with stakeholder groups (e.g. teachers, academics, people from Egypt & Sudan, local archaeological societies, people of African descent, local disabled groups), so that the new galleries will be responsive to their needs. Public spaces During this period there were also improvements to the Museum’s public spaces. The corridor between the Money and Mediterranean Archaeology galleries was reconfigured to give visitors information on the Museum’s exhibition and gallery redevelopment programme, and the reception area was redesigned to improve public access and facilities. The reception desk was reduced in size and relocated so that Visitor Services staff could be seen immediately on entering the building. New lockers were provided on the ground floor, and the reception space opened up to facilitate visitor circulation, particularly effective for the large numbers of school groups who use the Museum. Three display cases were removed from the area, but these were replaced with a large Buddha statue (formerly displayed on the 1st floor) and a large endangered Indian Swamp Deer, removed from the Animal Life gallery. These two objects exemplify the Museum’s two main objectives around intercultural understanding and promoting sustainability. Along with the Museum’s very popular Giant Spider Crab a new group of ‘iconic’ exhibits has been created. Public Programme As noted in the introduction, the Museum’s visitor numbers continue to increase, rising to 339,981 for the period 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010, a 29% increase on the previous year and the highest recorded number in the Museum’s history. This is includes 28,244 visits from organised school groups, a 10% increase on the previous year. One of the reasons for this increase is the extensive programme of events we put on in the course of the year. We undertook 271 different events in total, covering talks, tours, Big Saturdays and 13 weeks of holiday programmes attended by 72,898 visitors. University academics and researchers actively engaged in the public programme such as the Food for the City event developed in partnership with the Sustainable Consumption Institute. Faculty of Life Sciences and The Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine developed the Science

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Festival programme with us. We also worked with Combined Studies students to develop a project on Fair-trade and chocolate which culminated in a Big Saturday. We were also heavily involved in the Manchester Literature Festival. Amongst a wide variety of activities aimed at families, the monthly Big Saturdays, in which we explore popular themes with involvement from Museum and wider university staff, are particularly successful. Themes in 2009-2010 included, among others, several events around Darwin, Made in Africa, Chocolate, Biodiversity and Bugs. Good partnerships are vital for the successful delivery of the programme, and we have been proactive in seeking out opportunities for university academics and researchers to use the Museum to engage with the public. Examples include writing articles asking for contributions to the programme from academics in Unilife, attending Beacon networking events and including information in Staff Update. Community partners regularly contribute to the Museum’s public programme, for example the Big Saturday in January, Made in Africa, was developed and delivered in partnership with several Nigerian community partners. Henry McGhie was the Manchester science specialist in the Wellcome-funded ‘Evolving Words’ programme, which engaged local young poets with science and evolution. These poems were presented at a Manchester Literature Festival event held in the Museum. The University’s palaeontology team also plays an active role in the Museum public outreach programme, contributing to open-days, blogs (Ask A Biologist and Dinosaur Sabbatical) lectures, workshops and fieldwork. Understanding our Visitors Some data from our audience surveys shows that in 2009-10 our audience profile was made up of: Those with a specialist knowledge of the subjects covered by the Museum 6% Those with a general knowledge 78% Those with little or no knowledge 16% We have also sought to establish visitors’ involvement with the University (figures based on non-school visits, but include family/group members of respondents): Level of involvement with University % Number No involvement 85 264,976 Yes, studying 10 31,173 Yes, teaching 2 6,234 Yes, other 3 9,352

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4. Provide high quality educational opportunities for schools, colleges and lifelong learners, and excellent community engagement Education and learning The Museum and its Learning Team plays a significant role in the University’s Widening Participation Strategy, and with the Whitworth Art Gallery delivers a high proportion of the University’s entire WP provision, despite just having one dedicated post provided by University WP funding. The Museum has developed the Gateway Programme – an innovative set of progressive workshops and activities for schools using hands-on investigation, discussion and debate to develop research skills, from Explorer sessions for toddlers right through to curriculum enhancement and career development for Post-16 students. The programme is now supported by high quality pre- and post-visit resources designed to help teachers plan effectively and to embed the museum experience in larger schemes of work. Much of this is conducted in partnership with others. For example, the Museum has been working with the Natural History Museum in London, Oxford University Museum, Newcastle University’s Hancock Museum and King’s College London to develop an innovative ‘Real Life Science’ programme for upper secondary school pupils focused on Life Sciences and Earth Sciences. Last year 800 pupils participated in study days and sessions around forensic science in the Museum’s dedicated Life Lab, using PhD students as demonstrators. Last year 22,668 primary school pupils visited the museum to engage in sessions in our hands-on Discovery Centre and in our galleries on subjects as varied as Natural Sciences, Egyptology, Drama and Citizenship. To meet demand, we have also developed an outreach programme called ‘The Museum Comes To You’ which involves loan boxes, visiting curators, teaching/ discussion materials and innovative drama techniques, which in 2009-10 reached 2101 pupils. At Secondary level the Real Life Science programme is now complemented by a humanities equivalent called Exploring Arts and Cultures, and for Post-16 students, we offer a series of ‘Engage with the Experts’ workshops in Earth Sciences, Biology, Art and General Studies. In total, 5641 students from secondary schools and FE colleges attended sessions at the Museum in 2009-10. The development of pre- and post-visit resources, including web-based materials, to support enquiry-based learning across the age range and help teachers embed the Museum visit into project work is a crucial element in our aim of providing a full service to schools and colleges. An innovation in 2009-10 was the Changing Planet project which has produced a new web resource aimed at learners of all levels, using museum collections to highlight issues and stimulate debate around environmental sustainability and climate change (http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/changingplanet/).

Our programmes reflect current issues, so for example, much of 2009-10 was concerned with Darwin and evolution. Amongst our schools provision has been ‘Clippy Island: An Investigation into Natural Selection’, a range of activities designed for Key Stage 4 students (ages 14-16). In Clippy Island, the students become a population of birds called ‘Springbeaks’ where they experience first-hand how adaptations created by

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natural variations within a species allow a population to change over time. The pack was developed by a team of scientists, curators and educators from The University of Manchester and the Manchester Museum, and was trialled and tested by Year 10 students at Sandbach High School. Clippy Island was funded by the BBSRC as part of its UK Darwin Today programme and is available nationally via the BBSRC website, where it is one of the main vehicles for teaching evolution to secondary schools. 20 and 21 October saw the Manchester Science Festival 2009 Schools Event take place with Year 8 pupils from all over Greater Manchester packing into Pure Nightclub in the Printworks for a day filled with engaging and educational workshops, shows and activities exploring science, engineering and maths. We ran a Clippy Island workshop for about 180 students from five different schools over the course of the two days who all enjoyed being Springbeaks and experiencing natural selection in action.

On the week of the 19th July 2010 the Manchester Museum was taken over by 58 Gifted and Talented Key Stage 3 students from a variety of Manchester schools in order to take part in our Darwin Summer School. This consisted of five days of frenzied activity where participants were split into four groups entrusted with the task of creating a presentation to voice their ideas for our new Living Planet gallery, opening in April 2011.

In 2009 – 2010, we trialled a training programme to complement the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. The programme focused on how we apply learning theory in practice in Museum sessions for primary school children. The aim was to train a small number of students to lead sessions in the Museum through workshops, focused reading and training activities. As a result, two of the AGMS training programme graduates are now regular freelancers for us and have the ability to teach a very varied programme of sessions confidently and competently in the Museum. Three of them now also regularly work on Public Programmes.

New A-level study days were initiated in conjunction with Dr Mark Dickinson of the Photon Science Institute. The talks and interactive practical sessions were aimed at providing sixth form students with first-hand experience of science in action. Students from Whalley Range High School for Girls, Verdin High School, Macclesfield, and Ashton Sixth Form College (120 students) all visited the museum and the Physics Department’s labs, where the pupils used hi-tech spectrometers, infra-red cameras, thermal imaging and Optical Coherence Tomography equipment (OCT) with live animals from the Vivarium. Feedback from the schools was extremely positive and the initiative is now offered on an annual basis.

St James’ Primary consultation/residency

Over the past year St James’ Primary School in Rusholme have been our ‘school in residence’, which means that we have developed a close and long-term relationship with pupils who have advised the Museum on the Ancient Worlds gallery project and collaborated in a number of different ways to the benefit of both parties, ranging from participating in a Lindow Man CSI, to producing a guide to the Museum and a promotional video for the Whitworth Art Gallery. A blog entry from Gavin Shortall, a Year 6 teacher at the school, is reproduced in Appendix 5 and summarises what he feels have been the benefits of the residency. We will be developing further the idea of a ‘Museum school’ in the coming year.

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Community Engagement Community Network In September 2009 the Museum held the first meeting of a new initiative, the Community Network, supported by the Beacon, which had developed from our Community Advisory Panel. The event brought together representatives of 40 community groups and local partners and agencies such as Manchester City Council cultural regeneration officers. The evening included quick fire presentations from Museum staff about ongoing and future projects where the Museum engages with communities followed by a roundtable networking session between the participants. The Network now meets every six months and continues to be well attended. It provides an opportunity for the Museum to recruit community partners for its projects and to hear about priorities and ambitions from community partners. Volunteering Volunteering remains integral to the Museum’s community engagement strategy as well as the quality of visitor experience. The award-winning In Touch community volunteering programme (covered in detail in OPR 2009) has reached the end of its initial three year funding from the HLF. Over the year a number of funding sources have been investigated and we have now, unusually, been invited by the HLF to submit a bid for funding for In Touch 2. The stage 1 application will be submitted in December. Our volunteers who are made up of In Touch graduates, traditional museum volunteers and students (many of whom are part of the Manchester Leadership Programme) continue to play a vital role in the delivery of an excellent visitor experience through the Museum’s innovative object handling programme. Youth Boards The Museum runs two Youth Boards (one for 8-13 year olds and one for 14-18 year olds), and a Young Archaeologists club. As well as regular activities they also contribute to the Museum programmes helping at events and especially running consultation exercises. Members of the Senior Youth Board have been completing accredited Youth Achievement Awards. Museum Comes To You Museum Comes To You takes Museum objects, knowledge and stories out to groups who might not otherwise engage with the Museum in community centres, old people’s homes, festivals, fairs and shopping centres. Major events this year included a stand at Piccadilly Train Station, the East Manchester Festival and the BBC Springwatch Wild Day Out in Wythenshawe Park where we engaged with approximately 2000 people. For the Darwin programme we trained a group of volunteers to deliver sessions in 20 community venues across Manchester, working in conjunction with Museum curators and Faculty academics. Community exhibitions A second strand of Museum Comes To You is a programme of off-site exhibitions complementing our main exhibition programme that are hosted in schools, libraries or community venues in local areas of likely low Museum attendance. As part of the Darwin festival the Museum developed an exhibition in partnership with Moston Steps, a complementary education programme for young people excluded from school. The exhibition used Museum objects selected by the young people and supported with artwork generated by the group and was hosted by North

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City Library. It was attended by 41,427 people. For the China: Journey to the East exhibition (opened Sept 25 2010) in the run up to the launch we developed an exhibition with young Chinese people hosted in Manchester Chinese Community Centre in Ardwick. Whitworth Park Community Archaeology project In conjunction with the University’s archaeology subject area, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive, the Whitworth Art Gallery and the Friends of Whitworth Park, the Museum has developed a community archaeology and history project which is designed to involve local people in uncovering the history of Whitworth Park and in excavating some of the key features which used to be there. In 2009-10 there was a short season of survey work in June, along with two community archaeology events in the park. We are currently submitting funding bids for the further development of the project. Older People The Museum has taken a leading role in the city-wide Valuing Older People network which has been successful in being awarded a grant from the Baring Foundation to work in partnership to strengthen provision for older people across the City. Museums and Health The Museum has been part of a network of north-west museums investigating how museum collections can contribute to improved mental health and wellbeing. We have worked with Start, a mental health organisation, to develop a new display and trail using the palaeontology and mineralogy galleries called ‘Health Rocks’ which opens in November. We have also worked with Lime Arts to develop poetic responses to the Museum’s collections by a group of patients interested in wellbeing. The poems were published in a booklet by the Museum and a complementary display mounted in Manchester Children’s Hospital. The Manchester Beacon for Public Engagement The following statement was prepared by Beacon staff for inclusion in this report: In its second year the Manchester Beacon has built on its initial visioning and scoping work and has progressed activity to drive the culture change and develop internal university cultures that foster, support and recognise public engagement activity. It has done this by: • developing collaborative partnerships – eg. partnership with Vitae on production of national booklet, training packages and conferences on

public engagement; creation of an early career researcher network entitled The Crescent Network; the sharing of innovative public engagement activities with other Beacons including Comixed and the Bright Club.

• acting as an important broker - making connections between university staff and communities, eg. small seed awards which have fostered

sustainable community partnerships and the securing of additional income; developing community leadership training to support community representation on university committees.

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• fostering leadership and commitment from staff – establishing key Beacon working groups (eg. recognition, evaluation) to progress activity

and share learning; encouraging the formation of internal advisory groups to advise on public engagement at faculty/school/ department levels; identifying public engagement champions.

• capturing and disseminating impact and benefit – beginning to embed learning into internal processes; presenting at conferences eg.

Edinburgh, Bristol; development of an evaluation support pack; creation of an on-line public engagement directory profiling and showcasing people, places and resources.

Beacon Highlights 2009-10 :

• 22 seed awards involving over 60 staff across all disciplines and community partners. • Development of an evaluation support pack for public engagement with accompanying podcasts. • Providing professional development in public engagement for 277 early career researchers - a regional conference, workshops, and

joint authorship of national leaflet entitled ‘Engaging Researcher’ for Vitae. • Acting as broker/catalyst in supporting staff and generating new connections with the community resulting in sustainable partnerships

and additional income. • Hosted national Beacons two-day conference for 60 Beacon colleagues, evaluators and external participants. • Development of innovative public engagement activities eg. Comixed, Crescent Network.

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5. Establish an integrated and innovative approach to the management and use of the collection Digital access The development of the Museum's website continues in accordance with University brand guidelines and has been increasing and improving the resources available online. We are currently in the process of migrating the site to a new version of the Terminal Four content management system. In the course of the year we liaised with the central web team and switched to Google Analytics as a way of measuring visitor figures. This has resulted in lower but more accurate and reliable numbers. Our website received 198,133 visits from 176 countries/territories, with over 970,000 page views. The Museum has continued to broaden and develop its online presence, with the additional use of Posterous and AudioBoo to enable further provision of rich content. The museum Twitter account, currently with over 2,100 followers, has developed further and was selected in a recent report by The E Word as one of the top 5 cultural Tweeters in Manchester, cited as 2nd largest city in the UK for Twitter users. The Museum’s online offering includes an established series of blogs for collection areas and exhibitions. Notable amongst these are the Frogblog and the Egyptology blog, both of which have proved extremely popular as a means of communicating directly with audiences with 24,327 and 27,644 visitors respectively in this year. The ‘New Light on Old Bones’ blog was shortlisted in a number of categories in the Manchester Blog Awards. Two of our blogs (on Learning and on Palaeontology) were listed in the global Top 100 Best Curator & Museum Blogs. Access to images of the collection, objects, events and exhibitions is provided via the museum Flickr account, currently holding 7,677 images, with over 31,000 views to date. Use of Issuu has allowed us to repurpose printed content as online documents and we have had 118,539 document views since June 2009. We are currently trialling QR codes to form more cohesive links between the onsite and online experience. These 2 dimensional barcodes enable us to present visitors to the museum with a link to online content that can be updated and changed without the need to amend the physical label. The addition of Foursquare & Gowalla (location based social media) to our repertoire has enabled us to connect online with onsite visitors. We are also currently developing offers with our cafe and shop in order to develop customer loyalty and to enhance our profile and visibility in the local area via a ‘nearby offer’ feature on social media platforms. With other location-based technology, such as Layar, we have begun to experiment and develop augmented reality to allow visitors to ‘see’ existing online multimedia content in a site specific context. Making the collections accessible for research

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Much curatorial time is spent developing greater access to the extensive collections by inputting them onto the collections management database and making these records accessible via the Web. In 2009-10, nearly 20,000 records were added to the museum’s collections management system, covering 64,000 specimens. This means that over third of the c. 4.25 million items in the collection is documented to modern standards, and more than 25% is available online. However, it is becoming clear that some collections have been significantly over-estimated in size, so that an even greater proportion of the enormous collection has actually been documented to date. The Museum established a Resource Centre on its top floor gallery in 2007 which acts as a central, publicly-visible area where researchers can book in to study objects from the stored collections. The Centre had 1001 visitors in 2009-10, mostly University of Manchester students. These come from a wide variety of courses, notably from Archaeology and Art History and the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. Students from local colleges often visit in small groups; the RIGS Geology group and local historian Dominique Tessier are regular users. The Museum provides an extensive loans service nationally and internationally. Whilst many loans are to other museums, in the last year 13 loans totalling 85 objects and specimens were lent to other UK and international universities for research and teaching purposes, ranging from unidentified insects sent to specialists in Japan, to stone implements from cave deposits. The Museum proactively supports exhibition programmes of John Rylands Library and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Exhibition loans to the library included 21 coins and birds, insects and fossils. The conservation team work collaboratively with colleagues within the museum to ensure that the collection gets the best care in terms of conservation treatment and protection on display and in storage. Research into health and safety issues relating to the collections, such as the presence of toxic material (mercury and arsenic) has recently been conducted with the help of colleagues in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. The team are closely involved with planning and delivery of temporary and permanent displays and are also investigating ways to make these processes more environmentally sustainable (lighting and environmental control). Conservation also collaborate with curatorial and educational teams to select objects which are used in outreach activities, such as Big Saturdays, Museum Comes to You boxes and for the In Touch in house handling tables. Handling training is also given to anyone using any of these objects to ensure longevity of the objects selected and for the safety of the person handling the object. Conservation are also looking at innovative ways in which to augment this handling activity with new technology (Haptics) to enhance the experience with related multi media which will make the experience more holistic and accessible for some disabled people, notably people with visual impairment.

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6. Manage and develop the resources, facilities and workforce to deliver our objectives Organisational development In the first part of 2010 the senior management of the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery began to address the likelihood of significant cuts in their public funding sources including the HEFCE Museums and Galleries fund, the DCMS Renaissance in the Regions scheme, NWDA, and the University of Manchester itself. Both organisations were spending an extremely high proportion of their budget on staff salaries (82% in the Museum’s case), which had meant that recent cuts have had to be accommodated within revenue budgets, leading to a sharp decline in funds to undertake key activities such as exhibitions, learning, public engagement, collections management and marketing. At that time, government departments had been asked to model cuts of at least 25%. Given this situation, it was decided to move forward proactively to reduce staff costs, because of the existence of the University voluntary severance scheme, which would give staff affected another option beyond redeployment. The principal change to the structure has been to create a series of shared services between the Museum and the Art Gallery in the areas of finance/administration, commercial activities, learning & engagement, marketing, collections care & access, visitor services and house services. On the Museum side this has also entailed discontinuing our own in-house exhibition design facility by ceasing the posts of Head of Exhibitions and Presentation and Graphic Designer. As with the Whitworth, we will now follow a model whereby we outsource exhibition design, and either undertake production ourselves for small temporary exhibitions using our enhanced in house technical team, or by bringing in an external production team. All of this will be facilitated by an increased budget for exhibitions to allow work to be bought in. We have also merged the former posts of Curator of Mineralogy & Petrology and Curator of Palaeontology into a single post of Curator of Earth Science Collections, resulting in the saving of one post. Otherwise, sharing of common services has enabled us to allow greater efficiency of operation by preventing duplication of activity and allowing pooling of resources. In particular, savings have been made in middle management. Total savings between the two institutions are around £500,000 annually. The Museum’s Organisational and Workforce Development Group continued to oversee the implementation of group and personal development and training plans for staff. A key feature was again the ‘Rising Stars’ programme, which is aimed at providing development opportunities for staff below management level who wish to develop their careers further. Applications from women, who are underrepresented at management level, are particularly encouraged. In 2009 six women participated in the programme, which included such activities as undertaking secondments; shadowing and mentoring, alongside more formal courses. The Museum has also supported the government employment initiative The Future Jobs Fund by providing 5 work placements (6 months duration) to give young people employment experience. Funding and Development

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We continued to diversify our funding streams, with our Head of Development assisting considerably in this. In 2008-9, the Museum was awarded new grants totalling £103,300, mostly match funding towards the Ancient Worlds Gallery redevelopment project. The key priority over the course 2009/10 has been the preparation of the Second Round HLF application for the Ancient Worlds redevelopment, which was submitted on time in September 2010. All of this was done in close liaison with DARO, which co-ordinates a University-wide development forum.

In addition our MAJA Lindy Crewe raised £21,000 for her fieldwork and public engagement work in Cyprus from the British Museum, the Leventis Foundation, and the Archaeological Institute of America. An application for a research grant of £325,000 is currently being assessed by the AHRC. Finance (See statement below) Environmental sustainability initiatives The Museum has set itself challenging environmental targets and an update follows:

• Reduce waste to landfill by 40% by the end of 2010. With the introduction of recycling throughout the Museum (including wood used in exhibition construction which is either reused or pulped for the manufacture of paper) and the removal of personal waste bins the Museum is on target to reduce waste to landfill by around 40% by the end of 2010. A further significant reduction is anticipated once food waste from the café is composted via commercial anaerobic digester facilities currently under construction in the region.

• Reduce energy consumption by 40% by 2012 (assuming additional Revolving Green Funding being made available).

During 2009/10 the Museum phased out personal printers and introduced centralised printing, removed water chillers and upgraded several public areas to LED lighting. Using £40,000 awarded from the Revolving Green Fund the Museum installed low energy LED lighting in a number of public areas, including, as an experiment, the complete re-lamping of the Fossils Gallery. This reduced electrical energy consumption in the gallery from 126,720 kWh/year to 14,400 kWh/year -- a reduction of 89%, saving approximately £10,000 of electrical energy and reducing CO2 output by 60 tonnes. Besides the very significant energy saving, LED lighting has a 10 year life expectancy which eliminates the need for technical staff to constantly replace failed lamps and ensures the gallery is always adequately lit to maintain the quality of the visitor experience. The Museum is continuing to install LED lighting in both public and back office areas supported by the Revolving Green Fund.

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The Museum is planning to trial in 2011 an innovative new insulation material which will provide a thermal buffer in a collections store, which will reduce the need to heat, cool, humidify and dehumidify the stores significantly reducing electrical energy consumption and CO2 output. If the trial is successful in maintaining the environmental conditions within the store and achieves the anticipated reduction in energy consumption then the Museum will seek funding for the installation of thermal buffering in other stores.

• Promoting Environmental Sustainability

o The Museum, in partnership with the Garden Museum and others, has been awarded an HLF grant of £133,000 to train over the next four years four environmental sustainability advocates for the Museum and Galleries sector. The project is distinguished by being work-based, and the four placements will be trained to deliver training to institutions elsewhere, leading workshops and applying a portable tool-kit. This is the first training scheme of its kind in the sector.

o The Museum applied for membership of The Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS), which is the national sustainable

tourism certification scheme for the UK, it is the only certification scheme validated by Visit Britain, through the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT). Organisations opting to join Green Tourism are assessed by a qualified grading advisor against a rigorous set of criteria, covering a range of areas, like energy and water efficiency, waste management, biodiversity and more. Those organisations that meet the required standard, receive a Bronze, Silver, or Gold award based on their level of achievement. In our first year of membership we were awarded Silver status, which is a very creditable outcome.

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THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (M2015 GOALS 1-3)

Public Engagement Annual increases in, and broadening of, participation in educational programmes and public

visits to the Manchester Museum/Whitworth Art Gallery 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 % change

Comment

a) Annual number of visits 253,474 224,852 264,141 339,981 +28.7 Good programming and the opportunities of a free venue

b) Contacts with school age children 32,233 24,345 25,649 28,244 +10.1

c) Number of contacts with people from priority groups

83,646 74,201 87,166 88,000 +1.0 Priority groups are: Socio-economic groups C2DE Disabled BME

d) Beacon for Public Engagement See commentary in Section 4 above

Customer Satisfaction Annual increase in levels of satisfaction in users of the Museum

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 % change e) Results of annual user satisfaction surveys 100%

satisfied 97% rated visit excellent or good

96% very or fairly satisfied

99% very or fairly satisfied

+3

Academic Engagement Annual increase in levels of teaching and research use of the Museum

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 % change f) Number of research activities drawing on collections including contribution to publications, seminars, partnerships, PhD supervision etc

751 638 661 867 +31 Significant increase due to concerted effort to develop student research projects on collections

g) Number of teaching courses drawing on collections/staff (to include report on course unit

55 60 58 58 0 Course unit survey scores ranged from 0.98 to 1.78. In most cases museum

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survey scores on which Museum/Gallery staff teach)

staff contributed as occasional guest lecturers, participated in field courses etc, so it is difficult to draw any conclusions about impact of museum and collections on teaching. Feedback on some courses is given in the section on teaching and learning above

h) Number of students involved in research and teaching activities

2,742

2,863 2,976 2,854 -4% Natural variation in class sizes

2009-10 Comment i) Esteem measures See Appendix 3 International Interaction 2009-10 j) The quality and scope of international interactions

See Section 1 of report above

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THE MANCHESTER MUSEUM MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (M2015 ENABLING GOALS 1-6)

Performance Indicator Achievement Comment (include target where

appropriate) HR k) Number and proportion of people being reviewed annually under the Performance and Development Review (PDR) scheme

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 83

(100%) 87

(100%) 83

(100%) 82

(100%) l) Training: number and proportion of staff having undertaken professional training and development programmes

I.T - 14 staff (17%) General - 56 staff (68%) Health & Safety - 20 staff (24%)

In addition to staff undertaking training & development via STDU the Museum allocated core and project funds for individual and group development activities and the continuation of the “Rising Stars” personal development. programme.

m) Equality and Diversity: staff profile and recruitment by gender and ethnicity,

Tables attached as appendix

n) Disability – total of all grades Disabled Not disabled Not known Total

2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 4 3 4 4

79 84 78 78 0 0 1 0

83 87 83 82 o) Head count data starters and leavers by source of funding

Starters Leavers

Internal (baseline) funded External funded Core Non-core Core Non-core

8 0 3 0 10 0 0 0

p) Headcount data starters by new/replacement/restructure posts

New posts 3 3 new posts are short term project funded Replacement posts 8

Restructured posts 0 q) Sickness absence figures 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

Days lost 487 859 434 Lost time rate % of available working

days 2.53 4.68 2.39

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Average annual days lost per employee 5.6 10.35 5.29 Costs £46,619

£74,951 £30,604

r) Incidence and resolutions of appeals, complaints and Employment Tribunals

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 % difference Grievance Cases

0 0 6 +600%

Disciplinary Cases

0 1 0 -100%

Tribunal Applications Cases Reaching Tribunal 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10

0 0 0 0 0 0 Communication s) Evidence of pervasive, meaningful engagement of staff at all levels in strategic planning and decision-making

There are all-staff briefing meetings each week, together with monthly staff presentations and Director’s briefings. The latter are a particular opportunity for all staff to have an input into strategy and decision-making. Team meetings are a vehicle for staff communication and feedback. All projects are developed through ‘diagonal slice’ teams involving colleagues at all levels. There is an annual staff conference which engages everyone in shaping key programmes and a confidential annual staff survey which provides feedback for managers.

Financial Management t) Confirmation of managing within budget

At the end of 2009-10 the Museum recorded a most surplus of £18,640

u) Detailed financial statement, including breakdown of income sources and external grants generated, and commentary

See below

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v) Details of new grants awarded in 2009-10

External fundraised income secured in 2009/10 is £103,372, most of which has been primarily directed towards the Ancient Worlds redevelopment:

• Foundation for Sport and the Arts: £20,000 for the redisplay of the Mummy portraits

• Headley Trust: £66,666 towards the Discovering Archaeology Gallery (£50,000 as the grant and a confirmed £16,666 through the Government’s matched funding scheme).

• A further £16,706 has been received in

individual donations (plus eligible Gift Aid and Government matched funding where applicable).

This overall figure is lower than the previous year. However, the key priority over the course 2009/10 has been the preparation of the Second Round HLF application for the Ancient Worlds redevelopment, which was submitted on time in September 2010 (decision expected December 2010).

Sustainability w) Utilities consumption by building

Energy - 3,294,008 kWh Carbon emission - 114 kg / m2

x) Specific actions implemented in relation to sustainability and reducing the carbon footprint

Rolling programme of low energy LED lighting upgrades particularly in public areas. One recent installation reduced energy consumption by 112,320 kWh and CO2 output by 60 tonnes

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y) Other sustainability KPIs i) Energy use and efficiency

(e.g. room temperature, lighting control, hibernation of IT equipment, photocopying)

Achieved 2009-10 In progress Planned Phased out personal printers & introduced centralised printing Removed water coolers Upgraded several public areas to LED lighting, funded by Revolving Green Fund

Continue installation of LED lighting in public & back office areas Upgrade PC infrastructure and introduce low energy equipment

Trial thermal buffering material in a collections store which will reduce need to cool, heat, humidify & dehumidify significantly reducing energy consumption and CO output. Upgrade heating system in 1885 building by removing inefficient gas boilers and connecting to district heating scheme

ii) Waste Management (e.g. bin the bin, recycling, paper consumption)

Achieved 2009-10 In progress Planned Recycling introduced – on target to reduce waste to landfill by around 40% by the end of 2010 Wood used in exhibition construction either reused or pulped & used for the manufacture of paper

Waste food from café to be composted in anaerobic digester, once facilities are available in the city

iii) Environmental Responsibility (e.g. procurement, business travel, video conferencing, staff commitment, biodiversity)

Achieved 2009-10 In progress Planned Applied for Green Tourism accreditation. After external audit the Museum was awarded Silver status Video conferencing trialled Reward based “Switch off” initiative trialled. The ebook “The Green Book for

Template for local sustainability action plans in development In partnership with the Garden Museum and others, the Museum has been awarded an HLF grant to train environmental sustainability advocates for the museum & galleries sector.

Action plan to achieve Green Tourism Gold status by 2012 Green procurement workshop planned for early 2011 Real time energy consumption & CO output display in main entrance to inform visitors

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Dummies” circulated to all staff In-house “Green” team promotes changes to working practices locally Active participation in University Sustainability Enthusiasts initiative

iv) Education (i) (titles of units regarded unambiguously as relating to sustainable development)

Existing units Planned units Year 1 units Year 2 units Year 3/4 units Masters units CPD units

v) Education (ii) other activities, ie student training in place to promote a sustainable environment within the University and whether sustainability is a component of your Graduate Training Programme

vi) Research – list major research themes (by School) which could be regarded as unambiguously as relating to sustainable development. For each theme, indicate the source and value of external funding and the number of associated PhD students

Research theme Source of external funding

Value of external funding

Number of associated PhD students

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Financial Summary for 2009-10 Income The Museum reports income received to budget as a favourable variance of £103k. Adverse Variances

HEFCE Income decreased £18k on budget due to funding not being confirmed at the time budget was set.

Teaching Income decreased £10k on budget as slightly less activity undertaken than expected.

Favourable Variances

Museum Endowments generated a higher level of income, increased by £4k. Corporate Hire external income increased by £28k, expenditure increased also. Donations increased by £12k due to increased visitor numbers. Beacons income increased £43k, matched with expenditure. Extra Hub income received £44k, matched with expenditure.

Expenditure The Museum reports expenditure undertaken to budget as an adverse variance of £75k. Adverse Variances

Compromise agreements made in year of £110k. Cost of works to Mummy store not budgeted of £40k. Extra maintenance costs in the year of £30k as a result of unrealistic budget cuts. Shop refit undertaken which was not budgeted for £10k. Computer purchased not budgeted for £10k. Staff costs to fill vacancies/sickness £90k. Extra corporate hire expenditure of £50k, income increased also.

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Extra HUB expenditure of £44k, matched with increased income. Extra Beacons expenditure of £43k, matched with increased income.

Favourable Variances

• Pay savings made against budget due to reduced percentage increases and vacancy savings are £178k.

• VAT reclaimed through section 33a of £60k. • £15k received to support HLF project not budgeted for. • Internal income from Corporate Hire has increased by £30k, expenditure has

increased also. • Income received via an allocation for online Egyptology course £20k. • Income received for housing Beacons project of £50 not budgeted.

Summary With £103k favourable variance of income, £75k adverse variance of expenditure and £8k SORP adjustment, the Museum reports a £20k surplus to budget at the year end. Manchester Museum Management Accounts 31 July 2010

Cumulative Actual Budget Variance £m £m £m

HEFCE Income Net Load Transfer Total

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Investment Income 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.23 3.13 0.10 Pay (2.84) (2.91) (0.07) Non-Pay (1.38) (1.24) (0.14) Total Expenditure (4.22) (4.14) 0.07 Contribution before exceptionals (0.98) (1.01) (0.03) Exceptionals 0.0 0.0 0.0 Contribution after exceptionals (0.99) (1.01) (0.02)

RISK STATEMENT [Attached] COMPLIANCE STATEMENT [Attached] BENCHMARKING DATA eg AHRC The comparative data submitted last year showing performance indicators across all AHRC funded museums was not collected by university museums in 2009-10. AHRC no longer administers university museum funding and HEFCE does not require these statistics to be collected.

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APPENDIX 1

Courses involving museum staff and collections

Museum staff as course co-ordinators AHVS70101 The Museum and its Contexts: Masters AHVS60892 Science, Nature, Museums: Masters AHVS60862 Museum Policy and Practice: Masters AHVS60900 Art Gallery and Museum Studies MA dissertations EART 20112 Vertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, 2nd year undergraduate ARGY30231 Prehistoric Cyprus (3rd year), Note that this course was in the top 10 of the student satisfaction survey for the whole faculty ARGY30011 Issues and Controversies in Archaeology and Ancient History (3rd year). Museum staff giving guest lectures HIST60301 Reading the Victorian: A Case Study of Manchester: MA HSTM20181 Science, Media and the Public: MA EART 30372 Topics in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 3rd year undergraduate EART 10012 South Devon Field Trip 1st Year undergraduates, EART10211- 1st year introduction to Palaeontology course (EPS) FLS 3rd year Biology and Zoology BIOL20861- evolution of animals BIOL10602 – marine biology BIOL 10622 Field Course in Comparative and Adaptive Biology (000782)- FLS 1st year BIOL 20872 Urban Biodiversity and Conservation RSM (023184) (FLS) BIOL20742 Vertebrate Locomotion, 2nd year undergraduate BIOL31111- Evolutionary Developmental Biology (FLS) BIOL 20872 Urban Biodiversity and Conservation RSM (023184) (FLS) BL 151- Introduction to biodiversity BIOL 60220 Introduction to Egyptology GEOG30350 Geography of Life First Year Geotechnics Course for MACE (School of Engineering)

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ARGY30362 Museums, Anthropology and Material Culture ARGY20942 Changing Worlds in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean (2nd year), ARGY20932 European Prehistory ARGY10132 Introduction to World Archaeology ARGY60342 Mesolithic Europe MA module ARGY60131 Complex Societies MA ARGY10501 Archaeology Vocational Skills 1 ARGY 20502 Archaeology Vocational Skills 2 ARGY30502 Archaeology Vocational Skills 3 ARGY 20001 Long Essay (Archaeology, Level 2) ARGY30501 Theory and Practice in Archaeology (Level 3) ARGY10132 World Archaeology ARGY30011 Issues and Controversies in Archaeology ARGY30000 Dissertation supervision (Archaeology, Level 3) ARGY30501 Cultural Resource Management Vocational Skills ARGY 30232 Prehistoric Cyprus course ARGY30561 Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe - Chantal Connoller ARGY60102 Archaeology of Artefacts ARGY07915 MA Ancient World Studies AHVS60282 Museums & Archaeology 2 Seminars AHVS1062 Objects & Exhibitions AHVS60272 Digital Heritage AHVS60862 Policy & Practice SOCY20181 Sociology, Race, Gender & Difference SOAN30081 Anthropology of Museums SOAN20852: Materiality, Sensoriality and Visuality CIAH 0230: Introduction to Ancient History SPLA30382 Revolutionary Creativity and American Inspiration CLAH31400 Egypt in the Graeco-Roman World (Religions and Theology, Level 3) MA: Vocational placement (Art Gallery and Museum Studies, MA): [4 – each student did 20 hours] MSc: Introduction to Ancient Egypt (KNH-Centre for Biomedical/Forensic Egyptology, MSc): 6 x 2 hour lectures [12]

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Qualitative Feedback on Teaching by Museum Staff One of the actions from the OPR in 2008-9 was ‘to continue to explore further opportunities for academic links in teaching and research and interactions with students; to liaise with the relevant Schools to receive qualitative feedback from the Course Unit Survey and include qualitative feedback in next year’s documentation’. Dr Dmitri Logunov, Curator of Arthropods Biol20451 Urban Biodiversity and Conservation This is a Research Skills Module run by the Faculty of Life Sciences Contribution: Formal lecture, supervision of 2 field trips and 5 lab practical, assessment of student talks and invertebrate collections. Student feedback: The course was well received by students, obtaining a high overall score in the student survey. Unit coordinator’s comments: Dr Logunov’s contribution is essential to the running of this course. The course provides students from Life Sciences and Environmental Sciences with a grounding in how to perform field studies in the UK, with a particular focus on how to assess the biodiversity and conservation value of natural semi-natural and brown field sites. The focus is on providing skills which are recognised as being essential to environmental consultancy and conservation organisations. Dr Logunov provides students with practical expertise in the identification of invertebrates, an essential component in assessing the biodiversity of a site. He has expertise in this area that cannot be provided by any staff with FLS. 1st year course - Introduction to Field Biology This is a course that is provided to all students taking 1st year field courses in FLS. Contribution: 1 formal lecture, supervision of 2 afternoon laboratory sessions Student feedback: no formal data collected, however informal student comments suggest that these sessions are well received and provide useful skills.

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Unit coordinator’s comments: Dr Logunov provides a good introduction into the concept of field biology and the range of skills required to assess biodiversity in sites worldwide. He has unique field experience and his lecture serves to enthuse students for field biology. His contribution to lab sessions both in terms of providing samples for students to practice identification skills and in supporting those students in attempting to carry our identification are invaluable. Leander Wolstenholme, Curator of Botany Leander contributed to several courses but left in January 2010 and has not been replaced. Here is a summary of his contribution from an academic colleague in Life Sciences: ‘In teaching, Leander was a leader on one residential field course, and was a major teacher on a Manchester-based course. On both courses, his botanical expertise and experience in ecological surveying were crucial in giving our students the best possible educational experience; it related botany to the real world of building developments and conservation. He also provided lectures for other courses. In research, Leander was a co-supervisor for several final year project students and helped Ph.D. students with plant identification. The herbarium is also an excellent resource for studies investigating environmental changes and their effects of plants, and without a Curator would be under-used. In terms of public engagement, many students have acted as volunteers at the Herbarium, giving them vital hands-on experience, and helped Leander on Museum open days, presenting the world of plants to the general public. These are extremely useful ways of developing students and improving our links with the city. Other important links with the Curator have allowed museum volunteers to gain extra experience at our Botanical Grounds, and helped us develop several new planting areas such as a fern bed and alpine area. No doubt a new Curator would bring different expertise, but in these days where taxonomical knowledge is fast disappearing from Universities, the role of the Curator of Botany is an essential one to provide the underpinning for botanical research and teaching, and to allow botany in Manchester to thrive.’ (Roland Ennos) Henry McGhie, Head of Collections & Curator of Zoology Millport Marine Biology Pre-field Course- course code BIOL10602 Feedback: ‘Thank for very much for hosting the Millport Marine Biology Pre-course field session in the discovery centre from 2-5 May 20th. The purpose of this 3 hour session is to get the student to really LOOK at specimens and by assessing form, try to infer function and even functional interactions between species. This is not something that I think many 1st year students are familiar with doing. Looking and thinking. But is an essential skill for working in the field and certainly not something we would have been able to achieve without your help and that of Judy and without access to your collections.

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The students prepare for this session with an eLearning package, that they can do on their own time. However, it is obvious from discussions with the students that form and function really come together with direct, and hands on, observation. So thank you for your help and expertise. This is the 4 year you have helped us with this learning event and I really hope we can continue this again next year. I think it makes a big difference. As an aside, a lot of the students decided to stay and walk around the museum after their session was over too.’ (Holly Shiels, Tutor) Andrew Gray, Curator of Herpetology BIOL151: Introduction to Biodiversity (first year undergraduate) Feedback: Thank you for your excellent presentation to the first year undergraduates. The numbers were high this year (80 per session, 2 sessions) but you and your team dealt with them with upmost professionalism. I have copied a few comments from students below that they wrote on the back of the unit evaluation.... ''the guy at the museum who did the talk about frogs and lizard etc was great!'' ''Animal adaptation practical was excellent'' ''I now appreciate plants and reptiles/amphibians a lot more!'' ''The animals practical in the museum with Andy Gray was amazing-really enjoyable'' ''The session in the museum was by far the best! I am now interested in working more with reptiles and amphibians in the future. More sessions like this one with live animals...'' And many more! (Dr. Amanda Bamford, Senior Lecturer (TF), Faculty of Life Sciences) Bryan Sitch: Curator of Archaeology AHVS 60422 Museums and Archaeology – 2 sessions provided

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Feedback: ‘The feedback by students (8 students attended this course) on the use of the Manchester Museum's collection and access to museum staff expertise was excellent. The students enjoyed documenting and researching the archaeological objects collection, which formed the basis of a learning and activity pack for children. They also found the session on archaeological documentation, storage and research by Bryan Sitch extremely useful and relevant to their study. Both the use of the collections and sessions by museum staff have also been used in students' coursework and assignments.’ (Kostas Arvenitis – tutor) SPLA30382: Revolutionary Creativity and American Inspiration -- 1 session provided (½ Bryan Sitch, ½ Stephen Welsh) Feedback: ‘Thank you again for taking the time to speak with my students. Your talk was spot on and will give us a great deal to talk about. I know that having the evidence in their own hands makes it all seem much more real. So thank you again.’ (Patience Schell -tutor) ARGY3000: ‘In March you kindly granted me an interview for my undergraduate dissertation on the ethics of human remains display. I just wanted to express my thanks, and send you a pdf copy of my completed thesis. My final mark in the end was 77, so I am very pleased. Thank you ever so much.’ Rachel Brown, UG student, University of Manchester ARGY20932 European Prehistory Feedback: ‘…we had a good turn-out for a class otherwise dogged by poor attendance. The students' qualitative feedback was that it was fascinating, very exciting to hold these actual objects, and especially see such gems of the collection as the Burnley torc. It helped them make sense of the chronology, changes in style, typology and material, and thus was vital as part of their revision as well as broader archaeological skills. They used this information innovatively when writing exam answers, and it really helped bring together issues we talked about in other courses, such as technology and metaphor, bodily dress and appearance, deposition of objects, aesthetics of material culture etc. We also enjoyed teaching it!’ (Dr Melanie Giles, tutor, Archaeology) ARGY60342 Mesolithic Europe MA module ARGY30561 Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe ARGY20932 European Prehistory The course leader Chantal Conneller doesn't have any quantitative feed back because the university feedback forms don't deal with museum practicals specifically, however she did get very positive qualitative feedback particularly on the 2nd and 3rd year courses. ARGY 30232 Prehistoric Cyprus

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8 students. “They loved handling the objects a lot. I'll be using the collections a lot more, as we all will with the new extra hour of teaching a week we've been given.” (Lindy Crewe – tutor) Postgraduate Open Day November 2009 used 1 or 2 ceramic items from MM collections. About 10 applicants attended - the greatest intake of MA students ever! The museum's contribution was very well received and contributed to a good MA intake. – Ina Berg (Tutor) Stephen Welsh, Curator of Living Cultures

• SOAN20852 Materiality, Sensoriality and Visuality, - 2 x 2hr sessions.

• AGMS60162: Museums, Anthropology and Material Culture,

- 12 X 1 hr sessions • SPLA30382: Transatlantic History of Science, University of Manchester.

– 1 x 1 hr session

• AA100: Cultural Encounters, (The Open University). - 1 x 3hr session Helen Caffrey, Cultural Encounters tutor, The Open University: Thank you very much for our visit and handling session on Saturday. I'm sure you could tell from the students' questions how involved they are in the subject and the discussion of current issues was particularly appreciated. I'm expecting their essays to show the benefit.

• Art Gallery and Museum Studies MA

4 student placements over a period of 3 months. 12 2 hr sessions

• Louise Tythacott, AGMS tutor, University of Manchester. Thank you so much for your brilliant tour yesterday. The students loved it and were greatly inspired by your ideas. I'm sure they are really looking forward to the visits to the stores.

• Sam Dunn, undergraduate, University of Manchester. I learnt a lot about the subject and really enjoyed researching the essay, I will

send you a copy tomorrow when I'm in uni, thanks again so much for the help you gave me I really appreciated it. Karen Exell, Curator of Egypt & Sudan

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ARGY30501 Theory and Practice in Archaeology (UG, level 3): Guest lecture - 'The Egyptology collections and display of human remains'. ‘This session provided students with a rich, real-world case study on the policies and practice of displaying human remains. It was extremely popular - cited in many exam answers - due to the complex social and ethical issues involved and the reflexivity demonstrated by the curator in responding to competing claims upon the past. Students commented on how much they had enjoyed the example as well as the delivery of the teaching, and it provided an exemplary case study for the course.’ (Dr Melanie Giles, Tutor, Archaeology). Museum visit - students conducted a self-guided tour of the Manchester Museum to examine the way in which the Egyptian human remains were displayed for themselves. 'On the doorstep', live debated issues and contemporary museum practice, which featured in many exam answers. ARGY30000 Dissertation (UG level 3): At least 3 students featured examples from the Manchester Museum as case studies in their theses, and many of them interviewed the curator as part of the evidence and opinions evaluated in their thesis. ARGY60011 Research Skills in Archaeology (MA): A dedicated session on the excavation, analysis and display of human remains utilised the Egyptology collection as a case study, and many students followed this up by visiting the collection themselves. This led to an MA student dissertation on the topic. Dr Melanie Giles, convener of the above courses, also states that, apart from the Museum having a magnificent Egyptian archaeology collection, it is the way in which these issues are being debated and reflected on (especially by the curator but also museum staff in general) which catches the imagination of these students, and provides them with real-world case studies on their doorstep which demonstrate the importance of these issues AHVS 60422: Museums and Archaeology (MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies) Karen contributed to the teaching of the 'Museums and Archaeology' course in the MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies in Semester II 2009-10. Her seminar on 'Curating Egypt in Museums' is consistently one of the best received by students, some of whom go on to write essays and/or dissertations that draw on issues, ideas and case studies presented by Karen. Work Placements [no course code] (MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies) Karen offered in 2009-10 4 placements to AGMS students in a project titled 'Ancient Worlds' Gallery Development. This was a minimum 20 days work on development of themes and content and/or audience development, consultation and evaluation for the forthcoming Ancient Worlds Gallery. This has been an invaluable contribution, as it has offered AGMS students the opportunity to gain practical experience on a

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APPENDIX 3

Esteem Measures

Nick Merriman continues as Chair of the University Museums Group, the professional body representing university museums, as Chair of the Museums Association’s Ethics Committee, and as Vice-Chair of the international committee on university museums and collections (UMAC). He concluded his work as a member of the DCMS’s National Heritage Science Strategy Working Group, and stepped down from the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Panel and the AHRC Peer Review College. He continues as External Expert for Archaeology at the University of Bradford and as External Examiner for the Culture, Policy and Management MA at City University. Henry McGhie was appointed as Assistant Chair of the International Council of Museums Working Group on Collections Care- Natural History Collections and as a Visiting Guest Professor in the University of Oslo. Bryan Sitch sits on the committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society medieval section. David Gelsthorpe is Secretary for the Geological Curators Group, a UK-based group which aims to improve the state and status of geological collections. GCG has an international membership. Keith Sugden is Honorary Vice President of the British Association of Numismatic Societies, and Secretary (and a Trustee) of the UK Numismatic Trust (a grant-awarding body for numismatic research and conference funding). Keith was awarded the Jeffrey North Medal of the British Numismatic Society. The citation mentions his long-standing prominence on the British numismatic scene, including his lengthy curatorship of the important collection at Manchester Museum, his high-profile involvement with the British Association of Numismatic Societies (spanning 4 decades), and his long-standing work as Trustee and Secretary of the UK Numismatic Trust. Phyllis Stoddart is Honorary Secretary for the British Association of Numismatic Societies. Karen Exell is Acting Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society (http://www.ees.ac.uk/) and Chair of ACCES (http://www.acces.org.uk/) Sam Alberti is on the editorial boards of Endeavour ; Museum and Society ; and Museum History Journal . He continues as a member of the Thackray Medical Museum Research SubCommittee 2008–, as a member of the ‘Material Basis of Disciplinarity’ consortium [Leiden/Oslo/California/Aberdeen/Manchester], and was an advisor for the Wellcome Collection Exquisite Bodies exhibition, and for the MoSI Revolution Manchester Gallery

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Lindy Crewe was elected to the committee for the Council for British Research in the Levant, is a member of the editorial board for the journal Levant, a reviewer for publications for Antiquity, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Journal of Archaeological Science, and was invited to affiliate her Cyprus project with the American Schools of Oriental Research CAP (Committee on Archaeological Research and Policy) programme. She was invited to give the annual Crystal Bennett lecture for the Council for British Research in the Levant at UCL (October 2010). Phil Manning was the Chairman of the Outreach programme for the International Year of Planet Earth, attending meetings in London (Geological Society) and at the United Nations (New York). The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations for 2008 with a view to raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth’s rich and diverse geo-environments. Dr Manning and Dr William Sellers (FLS) research on dinosaur locomotion was also recognized by Apple Computers and a short video and web-page added to their website (www.apple.com/science/profiles/manchester). Other research groups profiled by Apple (~50 international research groups), included those from Yale, Harvard, UCLA, MIT, etc.

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Feedback on Museum policy & practice

31 Jan 2010 Dear Nicholas Merriman Last Thursday I and three colleagues came to your museum to run a course for GEM [Group for Education in Museums]. As none of us had ever visited the Manchester Museum and part of the course necessitated teaching in the galleries, it was more stressful than usual. But the whole experience was a delight, because of two things, your staff and the museum. Your staff are exceptional, I can honestly say I have never met a more professional, friendly, helpful group of people. Every single person with whom we had contact: Anna Davey, Peter Brown, Lynne Andrews, Lil and the whole team on the front entrance desk, the cleaner who was working in the Living Cultures gallery early that morning, the man serving coffee in the café, the man who served us in the shop, just everyone was so much more than welcoming. Somehow you have welded your staff into a body of people who, in a totally relaxed and intelligent way, are alert to the needs of others. I would be really grateful if you could pass on my thanks to all of them. And then there is the museum itself which in a way seems to me to echo the same feeling created by the staff. As an example, we were all particularly impressed by the Egyptian galleries. The combination of the sensitive, non-patronising, informative labels and panels, with the inclusion of modern objects which gently prompt thought without didacticism, is a joy. Again it is intelligent, awake to others’ needs whilst avoiding simplifying complex subjects which just leads to boredom. I have never before written an e mail like this to the director of any other museum in which I have worked but I felt on leaving that I wanted to let you know how I and all my colleagues felt. Yours with thanks Frances Sword

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12 May 2010 Dear Director Nick Merriman, As chair of the division Museums of the Council for Norwegian Universities and University Colleges, I would like to thank you so much for receiving our group of directors of the university museums in Norway and our representative of the Norwegian Ministry of Research and Higher Education. I know we were all very impressed and inspired by your introduction to Manchester Museum, including your reflections on the role of a university museum in relation to the University, and the visions and goals of the mother institution. Manchester Museum appears to be in the front in its innovative use of collections and staff in the involvement of schoolchildren and the public in general, as well as in the nature and extent of collaboration with the University on strategic, research and teaching matters. These aspects of the museum are surely something the Norwegian university museum directors have brought with them back home. Having served as Vice-Rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology for a period of eight years, I have been deeply engaged in the questions of identity and ways of development of a top quality modern university in the 21st century. After our visit at Manchester Museum, I can also see that the potential of thinking the Norwegian university museums into the context and ethos of their respective universities has by far been reached compared to what you have accomplished in Manchester Museum and Manchester University. One of the subjects of our discussions was your decision to focus your curatorial staff on mainly facilitating research by university professors rather than doing it yourself, and you have asked us for comments on this choice. I think there is a strong opinion amongst the Norwegian university museum directors that unless their staff does research of internationally recognized standards themselves, the museums will eventually be drained of power. Collection, research and the creation of exhibitions are considered to be inseparable. On the other hand, my experience is that this position has the potential of creating competition rather than cooperation between university and museum staff, and that it is difficult to find the right balance. In both cases, I think, like you, that it is of utmost importance that the museum and its staff are able to define their particular contribution within the larger construction of the university and to create an identity of their own that relate to the overarching organization. In my opinion Manchester Museum seem to have accomplished this difficult task admirably well. This last point is surely something that will be interesting to discuss in the years to come, and I certainly hope that we will see you in Norway and continue the very fruitful dialogue. Please send my regards to your colleagues. Thanks again to all of you for receiving us and sharing your ideas, reflections and wonderful museum with us. Sincerely yours,

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Julie Feilberg Dr Philip Jones is a Curator at the South Australian Museum working on an Australian Research Council funded project which is bringing together, in virtual form, the ethnographic collections and associated documentation of the two pioneer Australian anthropologists, W.B. Spencer and F.J. Gillen, who worked principally with the Arunta people of Central Australia during the 1890s. He is photographing and documenting the known Spencer and Gillen collections in international museums (Chicago, St Petersburg, Rome, Basel, London, Manchester, Oxford), with the aim of 'reuniting' the material in an relational database 6 June 2010 Dear Nick, I just wanted to drop you a line to say how much I appreciated working with your staff during my visit to Manchester a fortnight ago. I was able to see and photograph all the relevant objects and the Resource Centre was the perfect place to do this. Stephen Welsh was most helpful and I couldn't help noting the contrast with another larger museum to the south, which seems to have lost much of its enthusiasm for objects and collections (not to mention curators!). I'm looking forward to working up my material and to keeping Stephen informed about the Spencer and Gillen project as it unfolds over the next year or two. I think you have a great museum there in Manchester, with fascinating exhibits, a wonderful collection and a committed staff. I look forward to returning before too long, hopefully to do some work on the Heape collection of Aboriginal material. With best wishes, Philip The National Center for Science Education, a non-profit organization in the USA, affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, that works to defend the teaching of evolution in the public schools contacted us to say:

We were pleased recently to discover that the Manchester Museum issued a statement affirming the scientific importance of evolution. We would like to request permission to include a portion of the statement in Voices for Evolution, NCSE's collection of statements from scientific, educational, civil liberties, and religious organizations supporting the teaching of evolution. The portion we would like to include is the whole of the statement except for the first and last sentences, which refer to the museum's 2009-10 program and so will be dated soon.

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In particular, we would like permission to republish the statement in two venues: (1) on NCSE's website, in the Voices for Evolution Section :http://ncse.com/media/voices/education and (2) in the 4th edition of the print version. (The 3rd edition was published in 2008; we don't anticipate releasing a 4th edition until 2012 or so.)

We responded positively to this request.

Gavin Shortall is the Year 6 teacher at St James' CE Primary School, Rusholme, which is our 'school in residence'. We asked him to write a guest blog entry on how he feels our partnership benefits the children in his class:

Manchester Museum. Where to start? When I sit down to think about Manchester Museum, I find myself thinking of an old, big purple candle that I now use as a bookend on a shelf. I have had the thing for years and done nothing with it. Walked past it and it’s not even registered. Now I walk past it, as it sits there keeping my ever growing collection of books from spilling all over the floor, and wonder how I ever managed without it. I think about how no other object could do its job and I am thankful to whoever it was that gave me the thing those years ago.

While I certainly wouldn’t want to set the Museum alight, I do however think of it in the same way as my candle. I have now been bringing a Year 6 class to the Museum for 2 years, working primarily with Neil, mainly as a way of stimulating writing. If you teach in Manchester (maybe if you teach in a primary school anywhere?) I am willing to bet that driving up writing standards is a focus for you. It certainly is for us. The Manchester Museum has been a great find for us in trying to do this.

The specifics of what we have done are too many and detailed to go into here. I could talk about the day when we examined an ancient Crime Scene, using that to write a report. I could talk about the day we spent at the Museum looking at what goes on behind the scenes, using that to write a guide to the Museum. I could talk about the day we spent in the ‘Charles Darwin: evolution of a scientist’ exhibition, using that to look at how biographies can be constructed. I could even talk about the video that we wrote a script to, acted, directed and shot in situ, that is now used to promote the Museum’s partner, the Whitworth Art Gallery.

But for me as a teacher, it has been a little bit more than that. It has been about giving the children an exciting, tangible, real life context in which to write. As I gear myself up for whatever task this year’s SATs is going to throw my way, I worry that when they turn the paper over and find out that they have to write a recount of a trip to the seaside, too many of them will have no idea what such a trip would be like. I worry that too many of them won’t understand exactly what’s being asked of them. Not like when we are at the Museum. Having the opportunity to give the children vivid experiences to stimulate has been great. You can’t sum it up any better than one of the children who quite happily remarked after finishing one activity – “That was great! What are we doing next?”

And the Museum’s not even purple.

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APPENDIX 5 External organisations we work with

NWHub Early Years Project Steering Group NWHub MAGPIE (Museums & Galleries Pilot in Education) Steering Group NWHub Learning Managers Group SureStart Manchester steering group -PPEL (parents as partners in early learning project) Manchester City Council Early Years steering group Buddying project for development and delivery of under 5’s creative network MUSE. Wellcome Trust BBSRC Natural History Museum Oxford University Museum of Natural History Tyne & Wear Museums Salford Education Business Partnership Gorton Local History Group Brunswick Church Community Centre Manchester City Council Environmental Campaigns Team Manchester City Council Joint Health Unit Groundwork Manchester Lime Arts Manchester City Council Children’s Services Manchester City Council Gifted & Talented Coordinators Tameside College – Travel and Tourism links Levenshulme High School – China AimHigher Project Gallery Oldham – provided object handling sessions (April 2010) York Art Gallery – in collaboration for China exhibition Barnsley Academy – Partnership for Literacy work The Amphibian Ark Norden’s Ark Conservation Centre, Sweden Zoological Society of Chester and Chester Zoo – Captive breeding programme collaboration for Critically Endangered species Zoological Society of Bristol and Bristol Zoo – Captive breeding programme collaboration for Critically Endangered species The Horniman Museum Costa Rican Amphibian Centre Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica BBC – Bristol Natural History Unit – Close links continue to develop through film work

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Appendix 6

Maximising the University Brand: Manchester Museum Action Plan 2010

One of the actions from the 2008-9 OPR was: ‘To work to ensure that the University brand was maximised in all public relations’ The following action plan has been developed. Some of the actions are currently specific to the Museum but will be rolled out across Museum and Gallery. Area Actions

1. Branding The Museum and Gallery should use the University branding on all externally facing communications.

Museum and gallery to undertake regular audits to ensure consistency of branding and liaise with Communications where necessary.

2. Promotion Museum & Gallery to use all available avenues to promote connections to University especially University research.

Ensure University links are included in M&G print – i.e. a section in Museum’s Imagine More and on websites focusing on University involvement in the public programme.

Investigate including a rack or display for University materials in venue receptions. (discuss with Visitor centre staff re: supply of rack and stocking). Possible issues over quantities required.

Other University material to be stocked at reception for enquiries. Use specialist and adult e-newsletters to promote connections with University research and

activity. Use specialist offer campaign to promote engagement with university researchers and use of

the Resource Centre. Investigate the possibility of including a panel about the University somewhere in the venues

and any other opportunities for University branding. 3. Public programmes

M&G to involve University academics and researchers in delivering the public programmes.

University academics and researchers are invited to be included in or in some cases to co-produce all of the main Museum public programmes and also many gallery events. Most Big Saturday events will include involvement from University departments.

Use public programme to promote links to University.

Devise a Museum tour or trail that includes University connections.

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Use press coverage as a way to emphasise the university link.

All press releases to include “venue, part of the University of Manchester”.

All press releases to include University boilerplate. 5. Administration

Promote University in staff communications. “University of Manchester” to be included on all museum and gallery staff email signatures. Conduct a staff briefing/information guide to reinforce the use of correct branding and

consistent use of “part of the University of Manchester”. 6. Evaluation

Use our evaluation mechanisms as an opportunity to reinforce the message and establish base line data.

At next MHM visitor survey revision use our venue specific questions to ask “Are you aware that the museum/gallery is part of the University of Manchester”.

Add similar question to any questionnaires and evaluation data.

7. University staff M&G to engage with University staff and programmes.

Continue to participate in University initiatives such as wellbeing week, student conference, open days.

Offer special behind the scenes tours for University staff.

Include events in the weekly staff e-newsletter, Unilife and University website.

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Appendix 7

Publications by Museum staff 2009-10 (total 44) Books Book chapters

(REF) Book chapters (non REF)

Academic papers (REF)

Scholarly papers (non REF), including reviews and taxonomic papers

Practice-based articles

MAJAs 1 3 1 1 MAJAs and curatorial staff

Curatorial staff including Head of Collections

6

MAJAs and other museum staff

2

Curatorial staff with other museum staff

1 2 1

Curatorial staff and Faculty academics

1

Curatorial staff in partnership with international researchers

3

MAJAs and Faculty researchers

12

Curatorial staff with UK researchers

1 9