[NHCOLL-L:3462] RE: Looking for case studies on curatorial facility/building projects

[Jean-Marc Gagnon]

Dear Frannie,

 

It is unfortunate that you did not attend the recent SPNHC Annual Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota. This was the exact topic of the conference and subsequent workshop.

There are a number of institutions that are going through or have gone through the development of a curatorial facility, starting with us at the Canadian Museum of Nature. 

 

I am certain that places like Yale University (The Peabody Natural History Museum), and Oklahoma University (The Sam Noble Oklahoma Natural History Museum, where the next SPNHC conference will take place) can provide you with good information in the context of a university setting. I am sure these and many other will jump in and offer their support.

 

If you have any specific questions, I'll be happy to respond.

 

Jean-Marc

 

 

Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ph.D.

Chief Collection Manager                          Gestionnaire en chef

Invertebrate Collections                          Collections des invertébrés

Canadian Museum of Nature                         Musée canadien de la nature

P.O. Box 3443, Station D                          Boîte postale 3443, Succ. D

Ottawa, Ontario                                   Ottawa, Ontario

CANADA   K1P 6P4                                  CANADA   K1P 6P4

 

Tel.: 613-364-4066

Fax / Télécopieur:  613-364-4027

e-mail / courriel: jmgagnon at mus-nature.ca <mailto:jmgagnon at mus-nature.ca> 

 

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From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Blondheim, Frannie
Sent: June 6, 2007 11:57 AM
To: nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu
Cc: Andrews, Janine
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:3461] Looking for case studies on curatorial facility/building projects

 

Hello, 

The University of Alberta Museums is currently in the process of developing a business case for a new Curatorial Research Facility and we are looking for case studies on how other organizations have addressed similar challenges.

The University of Alberta is one of Canada's foremost research-intensive universities, with approximately 36,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate programs and 170 graduate programs and a growing body of international students from more than 100 countries.  The University of Alberta Museums is a distributed system of 35 museums and collections located throughout the campus in 15 faculties and departments where they are used in research and teaching programs.  In total there are more than 20 million objects and specimens in disciplines that range from printmaking and fine arts, to paleontology, ethnomusicology and zoology. 

The Curatorial Research Facility is envisioned to house the collections centrally with classrooms, research labs, digitization facilities, and a range of other facilities that provide a forum for object-based research and teaching, while maintaining the distributed nature of the teaching and research functions of our faculty, graduate students, and partnerships. A new interdisciplinary graduate degree in object-based teaching and research/museums arts and sciences, is also being developed to complement the facility.

If you have recently or are in the process of undertaking a similar project, we would appreciate hearing from you. 

Please contact: 
Janine Andrews, Executive Director 
Museums and Collections Services/LSE 
Ring House #1 
University of Alberta 
Edmonton, Canada  T6G 2E1 
Janine.Andrews at ualberta.ca 

 

Further information on the University of Alberta, and the University of Alberta Museums can be found at the link below. 

Sincerely, 

Frannie Blondheim 
Museums and Collections Services 
The journey from wonder to wisdom begins at http://www.museums.ualberta.ca <http://www.museums.ualberta.ca>  

 

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