Present: Ólafur Kvaran, Chairman, Guðbrandur Benediktsson, Sigríður Björk Jónsdóttir, Sigríður Melrós Ólafsdóttir, Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir, Halldór Björn Runólfsson and Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir, Managing Director. Hilmar J. Malmquist was unable to attend. Anna Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir participated in the last part of the meeting by telephone.
Approval and signing of the minutes of the 155th meeting of the Museum Council.
1. Presentation case
1.1. Summary of activities since the last meeting.
1.2. Involvement of head museums in reviews of museum accreditation. Discussion postponed to the next meeting due to the absence of the heads of head museums.
1.3. A symposium on museums and tourism in the Museum House on November 18th was held in collaboration with the Icelandic Museums Association and the Association of Icelandic Rural Associations. The symposium was a great success and the organizers and speakers were pleased with the outcome. Almost 100 people attended the symposium and the organizers are very keen to continue the good collaboration. The symposium was streamed and a recording of the broadcast can be found on the Museum Council's website.
1.4. Status of applications for the museum fund presented to the trustees. A new project application form had to be issued due to a programming error and the application deadline was extended to December 7th as a result.
2. Matters for decision
2.1. The offer of the curators Þórdís Baldursdóttir, Kristín Gísladóttir, Ingibjörg Áskelsdóttir and Karen Sigurkarlsdóttir for reporting on monitoring of recognized collections was approved.
Item 3, other matters were considered here.
The Museum Council agreed to send a letter to the Icelandic Cultural Institute with a proposal that the Museum Council's executive director take a seat on the Icelandic Cultural Institute's professional council for arts and creative arts.
Guðbrandur Benediktsson, Sigríður Björk Jónsdóttir, Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir and Halldór Björn Runólfsson left the meeting. Chairman Ólafur Kvaran, deputy chairman Sigríður Melrós Ólafsdóttir and deputy chairman Anna Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir remained by telephone, along with Managing Director Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir.
2.2. item of the meeting was discussed here: Proposal for the allocation of continuing education grants from the Museum Fund in 2016 to recognized museums approved and will be sent to the Minister of Education and Culture for decision. In preparing the proposal, the Museum Fund's allocation rules from 25.09.2015 and the Museums Act No. 141/2011 were followed, according to the announcement.
Meeting adjourned 13:40 / ÞBÓ