Tuesday, February 20, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Museum House, Hverfisgata
Present: Ólafur Kvaran, Chair, Anna Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir, Vice Chair, Haraldur Þór Egilsson, Sigríður Björk Jónsdóttir, Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir, Harpa Þórsdóttir, Anna Lísa Rúnarsdóttir, and Þóra Björk Ólafsdóttir, Executive Director. Helga Lára Þorsteinsdóttir and Hilmar Malmquist were unable to attend.
0. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 168th and 169th meetings of the Board of Trustees
1. Presentation case
1.1 Overview of the board's activities since the last meeting. The Board of Trustees approved writing a letter to the owner of the Forest Museum regarding the job posting for director, as it did not state that the Forest Museum is an accredited museum and the director's position must reflect that.
1.2 It was discussed whether the Collections Council should set any priorities for applications from the next main allocation of the collections fund, but the council is exercising this authority in a supplementary allocation of the collections fund for continuing education grants. It was decided to discuss these matters further at the next Collections Council meeting.
1.3 The Executive Director presented statistics on the registration of collections of accredited museums at the meeting, which are from the 2017 Annual Report of Accredited Museums. The Council for Museums is preparing the third phase of monitoring for accredited museums., Monitoring the registration of objects and access to collections and exhibitions, and in light of this, the collection board will request information from Sarpi about the number of registrations at accredited museums.
2. Matters for decision
2.1 The Council of Museums approved accelerating the process for the main allocation from the Museum Fund for the benefit of museums.
The following proposal was approved:
- The application deadline is the end of October/November at the latest.
- Proposal submitted to the evaluation committee a week later
- First working meeting of the evaluation committee around November 15th
- The evaluation committee will submit grades to the CEO around December 10th.
- Distribution meeting at the beginning of the year
- Proposal to be submitted to the minister by January 10th.
2.2 The Museum Council approved the following change to the procedure for granting extensions for the use of grants: The Executive Director may grant an extension in consultation with the Chair of the Museum Council. A report would then be presented at the next Museum Council meeting on which museums received an extension, under the item 1 Overview of the council's activities since the last meeting. If the chairman or executive director deems it necessary to present any requests for an extension to the meeting, they will do so.
2.3 The Council of Museums approved the evaluation reports of the Council of Museums' Supervisory Committee for Part 2 of the supervision of accredited museums.; Supervision of the museum's building, collection storage conditions, preservation of artifacts, and security matters. These are the museums that were in the 3rd monitoring round, and the reports will be sent to the museums afterward.
- Hafnarfjörður Regional Museum
- Gljúfrasteinn, the poet's house
- Hafnarborg, the cultural and art center of Hafnarfjörður
- The Icelandic Art Museum
- Kópavogur Natural History Museum
- The Living Art Museum
3. Other issues
Margrét Hallgrímsdóttir discussed the status of accredited museums at municipalities.
The Executive Director reported on a meeting with the Garðskagi Regional Museum, but their response letter to the museum board's comments from last year was not satisfactory.
Harpa Þórsdóttir discussed a potential agreement between the National Gallery of Iceland and Myndstef regarding the digital publication of photographs of artworks. She also spoke, among other things, about the Swedish Digisam agreement, which is a framework agreement that many Swedish museums are party to.
No other matters discussed – Meeting adjourned at 1:10 PM / THB