Tuesday, November 8, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m.
\nLocation: Museum House, Hverfisgata<\/p>\n
Present: \u00d3lafur Kvaran, chairman, Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, vice chairman, Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson (also by telephone), Helga L\u00e1ra \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir, Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, Harpa \u00de\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir, Hilmar Malmquist and \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, managing director.<\/p>\n
0. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 165th meeting of the Museum Council<\/p>\n
1.1<\/strong>\u00a0 Overview of the council's activities since the last meeting. The executive director reported on the status of applications for the museum fund and the results of the third inspection of recognized museums, as well as news on the status of matters at the Gar\u00f0skagi Regional Museum.<\/p>\n 1.2<\/strong>\u00a0 Deadline for submission Annual Report of Accredited Museums 2017<\/em> was last October 31, but the reports are part of the Museums Council's monitoring of recognized museums. 42 museums have submitted and 3 were given a deadline. A report will not be requested from the Music Museum, as the museum has been closed.<\/p>\n 1.3<\/strong>\u00a0 A draft form for the utilization of operating grants has been presented to the council, and the form will be submitted for approval at the next museum council meeting.<\/p>\n 2.1<\/strong>\u00a0 The Museum Council agreed that the fourth and fifth rounds of the Museum Council's monitoring of recognized museums would take place in the first quarter of 2018. These two rounds would include a total of about 14-18 museums.<\/p>\n 2.2<\/strong>\u00a0 The Museum Council agreed that applications for a deferral of the use of grants would henceforth be submitted on a form via the Museum Council's application website.<\/p>\n 2.3<\/strong>\u00a0 Request for a deferral of the use of a grant from the Living Art Museum approved.<\/p>\n Item 3 \u2013 Other issues, discussed here.<\/p>\n 2.4<\/strong>\u00a0 Applications for continuing education grants 2017. The following museum board members handled this item: \u00d3lafur Kvaran, chairman, Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, vice chairman, and Helga L\u00e1ra \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir. Other attendees ended the meeting here due to ineligibility to attend to the matter.<\/p>\n A proposal to allocate project grants in the field of lifelong learning to recognized museums from the additional allocation of the Museum Fund in 2017 has been approved and will be sent to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports for a final decision. According to the announcement, the proposal was prepared in accordance with the Museum Fund's allocation rules from 18.09.2013 and the Museums Act No. 141\/2011.<\/p>\n Discussion on this item ended at 2:00 PM, no further discussion took place and the meeting was adjourned.\/\u00deB\u00d3<\/p>\n Note: The item Other issues<\/em> was discussed before section 2.4.<\/p>\n The discussion focused on responsible collections and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports' response to the issue presented at the last meeting. This issue will be raised at the next meeting of the Museums Council.<\/p>\n The directors of the main museums and Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson and Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir concluded the meeting here at 1:00 PM.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, November 8, 2017, 11:00 AM \u2013 1:00 PM Location: Safnah\u00fasi\u00f0, Hverfisgata Attendees: \u00d3lafur Kvaran, Chair; Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, Vice Chair; Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson (by telephone); Helga L\u00e1ra \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir; Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir; Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir; Harpa \u00de\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir; Hilmar Malmquist; and \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Executive Director. 0. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 165th meeting of the Board of Trustees 1. Matters for information 1.1 Overview \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1620\/revisions\/1624"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. Matters for decision<\/h2>\n
3. Other issues<\/h2>\n