Thursday, January 25, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
\nLocation: Museum House, Hverfisgata<\/p>\n
Present: \u00d3lafur Kvaran, Chair; Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson; Helga L\u00e1ra \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir; Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir; Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir; Harpa \u00de\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir; and \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Executive Director. Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, Vice Chair, and Hilmar Malmquist were unable to attend.<\/p>\n
0. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 167th meeting of the Board of Trustees<\/p>\n
1.1<\/strong>\u00a0 Overview of the council's activities since the last meeting.<\/p>\n 1.2<\/strong>\u00a0 Revised procedures were discussed. A proposal will be presented for a decision at the next meeting.<\/p>\n 1.3<\/strong>\u00a0 Electronic submission to the National Archives and the Council's document management system were discussed, as the Council is a mandatory depositing entity under the Public Archives Act No. 77\/2014, and the board has had it on its agenda for several years to apply for electronic submission of its records to the National Archives. The Executive Director has reviewed the matter, but it is more costly and problematic than anticipated, though it will remain under consideration. A switch to electronic submission would not occur before the next New Year, at the earliest.<\/p>\n 2.1<\/strong>\u00a0 Approved that the total amount of grants from the main allocation of the museum fund for 2018 will be approximately 116 million kr\u00f3nur, while the total allocation to the museum fund for 2018 is 138.9 million kr\u00f3nur.<\/p>\n 2.2<\/strong>\u00a0 The chairperson left the meeting after a brief presentation on the matter. The Board of Trustees agrees to request that the Ministry of Education and Culture review the chairperson's compensation to better reflect the chairperson's workload between meetings.<\/p>\n 2.3<\/strong>\u00a0 The Collection Council approved that the council would participate in the project. Museums of Impact <\/em>which is a collaborative project of twelve cultural institutions and museums in Europe. The Finnish Heritage Agency is the organizer of the project and invited the museum board to participate, but a grant for the project has been applied for from the Creative Europe fund.<\/p>\n 2.4<\/strong>\u00a0 2018 Work Plan approved by the Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n 2.5<\/strong>\u00a0 The 2018 budget was approved by the board of trustees and will be submitted to the Ministry of Education and Culture for approval.<\/p>\n 2.6<\/strong>\u00a0 2018 Meeting Schedule Approved by the Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n Discussion of the main museums' collection policy. The National Museum of Iceland has published the 3rd edition of its collection policy for cultural heritage, while the other main museums are at different stages in this process.<\/p>\n No other business discussed \u2013 Meeting adjourned at 1:00 PM \/ THB<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday, January 25, 11:00 AM \u2013 1:00 PM Location: The National Library House, Hverfisgata Present: \u00d3lafur Kvaran, Chair; Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson; Helga L\u00e1ra \u00deorsteinsd\u00f3ttir; Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir; Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir; Harpa \u00de\u00f3rsd\u00f3ttir; and \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Executive Director. Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, vice chair, and Hilmar Malmquist were unable to attend. 0. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 167th meeting of the Museum Council 1. Matters for information 1.1 Overview \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1699,"menu_order":150,"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-1703","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1703\/revisions\/1704"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. Matters for decision<\/h2>\n
3. Other matters<\/h2>\n