{"id":765,"date":"2015-12-15T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vu2158.shelley.1984.is\/?page_id=765"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:09:09","slug":"146-safnaradsfundur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/um-safnarad\/fundargerdir\/arid-2015\/146-safnaradsfundur\/","title":{"rendered":"146th Museum Council Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 15, 2015 at: 12-14
\nin a meeting room on the 6th floor of the National Museum of Iceland<\/p>\n

Present: \u00d3lafur Kvaran, Chairman, Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson, Gu\u00f0brandur Benediktsson, Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, Halld\u00f3r Bj\u00f6rn Run\u00f3lfsson, Hilmar J. Malmquist and \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Managing Director. Absent: Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n

Approval and signing of the minutes of the 145th meeting of the Museum Council<\/p>\n

Presentation case<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Summary of activities since the last meeting<\/li>\n
  2. Appointment of a new Director of the Museums Council, \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n
  3. The status of the museum fund was presented to the museum board.<\/li>\n
  4. Project grants from 13 applicants to the museum fund in 2015 are unclaimed, they will be encouraged to apply for the grant before the end of the year<\/li>\n
  5. The status of applications for the 2016 Museum Fund was announced; a total of almost 40 operating grant applications and over 150 project grant applications have been received.<\/li>\n
  6. The decision of the Ministry of Education and Culture on the recognition of the Akureyri Art Museum presented to the council<\/li>\n
  7. The decision of the Ministry of Education and Culture to refuse recognition to Brei\u00f0dalssetur was presented to the council.<\/li>\n
  8. Annual report of museums; status of projects presented to the council<\/li>\n
  9. Supervisory role of the Museum Council; it was presented to the Council that there was a need to postpone the processing of the project until 2016<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Matter for decision<\/p>\n

    1. The Council discussed the amount of operating grants in 2016. Gu\u00f0brandur Benediktsson and Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson declared their disqualification from this decision and left the meeting while the proposal was being discussed. It was proposed that the amount of operating grants for 2016 be 800,000 ISK. The proposal was approved.<\/p>\n

    2. Request for postponement of the use of the grant from Hei\u00f0ar K\u00e1ri Rannversson approved<\/p>\n

    3. Request for postponement of the use of a grant from Sarpi approved<\/p>\n

    4. Request for postponement of the use of a grant from the Whale Museum in H\u00fasav\u00edk approved<\/p>\n

    5. A report on museums and tourism prepared by the Centre for Research in Museum Studies was received and will be published on the Museum Council's website in the near future. Following the report, a symposium is planned for spring 2016.<\/p>\n

    6. From the Sarps Management Company: Request for access to information on the annual number of works of the museums, which is used as a basic decision in determining the fee schedule for the Sarps database. The Museum Council will request the opinion of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture on Sarps' request.<\/p>\n

    Other matters: No further discussion and meeting adjourned 14:10\/\u00deB\u00d3<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    December 15, 2015 at: 12-14 in the meeting room on the 6th floor of the National Museum of Iceland Present: \u00d3lafur Kvaran Chairman, Haraldur \u00de\u00f3r Egilsson, Gu\u00f0brandur Benediktsson, Anna Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, Margr\u00e9t Hallgr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, Halld\u00f3r Bj\u00f6rn Run\u00f3lfsson, Hilmar J. Malmquist and \u00de\u00f3ra Bj\u00f6rk \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir Director General. Absent: Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rk J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir. Approval and signing of the minutes of the 145th meeting of the Museum Council Matters for presentation Overview of the activities from \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":763,"menu_order":0,"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-765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions\/2096"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/safnarad.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}