The Museum Council’s annual report for 2018 has been published and is now available on the council’s website. The report was approved at the council’s 182nd meeting last April. The report reviews the activities of the Museum Council in 2018 and the appendices include an overview of the allocation from the museum fund that year. The appendices also include a summary of the operations of recognized museums in the year …
The Museum Council invites you to the 2019 Allocation Invitation on the occasion of the main allocation from the Museum Fund 2019, Monday 29 April at 16.30 – 18.00 at the National Gallery of Iceland. The invitation is held following the joint spring meeting of the main museums, the National Gallery of Iceland, the Natural History Museum of Iceland and the National Museum of Iceland. Recipients of project grants from the Museum Fund 2019 will receive recognition documents and light refreshments will be served. Link to Facebook event …
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, after receiving the Museum Council's opinion, allocated a total of ISK 113,850,000 from the Museum Fund. From the main allocation of the Museum Fund in 2019, a total of ISK 113,850,000 was awarded, of which 85 project grants totaling ISK 84,250,000 were awarded, in addition to ISK 29,600,000 being allocated in operating grants to 37 recognized museums. A total of 142 project applications were received and the grants awarded ranged from …
At the 178th Museum Council meeting, a new version of the utilization reports for project grants was approved, which will take effect starting with the 2018 grant year. Starting with the 2018 grant year, project grant recipients will submit a progress report to the Museum Council for grants exceeding ISK 1,500,000. This report must be submitted at the beginning of the year following the grant year. All grant recipients are to submit …
A working group under the auspices of the National Gallery of Iceland has, together with Myndstefi, the copyright association of visual artists, worked on an agreement on the publication of copyrighted works from the collections of recognized museums and state museums. Upon signing it, museums will be granted permission to publish photographs on an online catalogue of copyrighted works. This will greatly increase the public and schools' access to information from catalogues. On Thursday 20. …
The Museum Council wishes all museum members and citizens a Merry Christmas and thanks them for the year that is passing. The Museum Council office will be closed over Christmas and will reopen on Thursday, January 3, 2019.
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, after receiving the opinion of the Museum Council, has allocated continuing education grants to recognized museums from the additional allocation of the Museum Fund in 2018, a total of ISK 11,512,100. Two types of grants were awarded, Continuing Education for Museum Employees on the one hand and Courses/Lecturers on the other. Continuing education for museum employees can be used to pursue formal education (for example, through organized courses) or for informal study trips, …
The application deadline is 4:00 p.m. Friday, November 16, 2018. The main allocation of the Museum Fund includes both project grants and operating grants from the Museum Fund. The amount and number of grants awarded are determined by the Fund's available funds as well as the number and quality of applications. Recognized museums can apply for grants from the Museum Fund, and the Fund is also authorized to support other activities to promote professional museum work, …
Museum Council's symposium on the educational role of museums and digital media The Museum Council is hosting a symposium in the Museum House on Friday, October 26, at 2-5 p.m. on the educational role of museums and how digital media can support it. See Facebook event The symposium is being held following the publication of the Museum Council's status report on digital media in accredited museums, "In step with the times? – Digital media in museums in …
In step with the times? Digital dissemination of collections for educational purposes The Museum Council's status report, "In step with the times? Digital dissemination of collections for educational purposes" has now been published. In recent months, an expert group under the auspices of the Museum Council has been working on a special project by the Museum Council on the educational role of museums, with an emphasis on the digital dissemination of collections and how digital dissemination is useful in education, but the role of ...