Tuesday, September 5, 2017, from 11 AM to 1 PM
Location: Museum House, Hverfisgata
Present: Ólafur Kvaran, Chairman, Anna Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir, Vice-Chairman, Haraldur Þór Egilsson, Helga Lára Þorsteinsdóttir, Sigríður Björk Jónsdóttir, Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir, Harpa Þórsdóttir, and Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir, Executive Director. Hilmar J. Malmquist was absent.
0. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 163rd meeting of the Board of Trustees
1. Presentation case
1.1 Overview of the council's activities since the last meeting.
1.2 Memorandum from the working group on procedures for grant awards from the Museum Fund was presented. The working group included, in addition to the Executive Director of the Museum Council: Haraldur Þór Egilsson, director of the Akureyri Museum, Helga Lára Þorsteinsdóttir, director of the RÚV Museum Department, Sif Jóhannesdóttir, director of the Cultural Center of Þingeyjar, and Kristín Dagmar Jóhannesdóttir, director of the Gerðarsafn. The expert group will be reconvened after the 2018 allocation from the museum fund.
1.3 Changes to the application forms for the 2018 main allocation of the collections fund were presented.
1.4 Applications for museum accreditation were received from two museums, and the deadline for applications was last August 31. The museums' applications will be reviewed, and at the next museum board meeting in early October, a recommendation for their disposition will be presented.
1.5 A new website for the Board of Trustees was launched in mid-July, and the main changes were presented to the Board.
2. Matters for decision
2.1 It was agreed that the next special project of the museum council will address the educational role of museums, with a focus on their digital media and how it is used as an educational tool. An expert group was appointed to oversee the project, which consists of preparing a report on the state of digital media in museums and organizing a symposium on the same topic. The expert group would continue its work beyond the symposium and compile a report on a strategy and action plan to promote and strengthen digital media in museums.
The expert panel will include: Ágústa Kristófersdóttir, Þóra Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir, Tryggvi Thayer, and Sólrún Harðardóttir.
2.2 Changes to the procedures for the distribution of the collections fund were approved.
2.3 Changes to the Annual Report of Museums Approved.
2.4 Continuing education grant application form and application deadline approved.
2.5 Landvernd's request for a nomination to the steering committee and jury of the Green Key was approved. Hilmar J. Malmquist, director of the National Museum of Natural History of Iceland, is nominated on behalf of the museum board.
2.6 It is agreed that the heads of major museums will appoint their deputy to sit on the museum board meetings.
The deputy for Harpa Þórsdóttir, director of the National Gallery of Iceland, will be Anna María Urbancic. The deputy for Hilmar J. Malmquist, director of the National Museum of Natural History of Iceland, will be Álfheiður Ingadóttir. The deputy for Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir, the national conservator, will be Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir.
3. Other issues
Helga Lára Þorsteinsdóttir informed the Collection Council that the RÚV archive intends to donate photographs from RÚV's operations to the National Photograph Collection of Iceland. Helga Lára submitted a list of these photographs to the Collection Council.
The meeting agreed to send a suggestion to the Nature Exhibition at Perlan regarding the English translation of the exhibition's title.
Nothing further discussed and the meeting was adjourned at 1:10 PM / THB