1.0 INTRODUCTION Kildare County Council in association - Kildare.ie

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AUDIT OF MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN COUNTY KILDARE 2006 • Three (four when the Military Museum collection is included) are of International relevance. Three are of National relevance. Thirteen of the museum collections can be said to be of regional and local relevance. • 86.6% of museums were established after 1970. The intervening 36 years has seen the establishment of a wide variety of organizations, each forging an individual mandate towards the sharing of knowledge and artifacts of interest to the county and the country as a whole. • One of the fifteen museums participating in this survey is a member of the Irish Museums Association (IMA). • Six museums or organizations organized events specifically to coincide with Heritage Week 2006. • Five organizations have collections policy. It is not clear from the survey if the collections policies are formally adopted in articles of association or management structures. • Generally speaking, folk life and local history form the principal focus of museums and heritage centres in County Kildare. • The extent of documentation of collections is varied. Seven collections are not catalogued at all. Four collections are completely catalogued, 35% of one collection is documented and catalogued, and two museums have between 70% and 99% of the collections catalogued and documented. • Six museums are open Monday-to-Friday and also at weekends. Six museums are open Monday-to-Friday only. Eight museums are open during normal business hours, i.e. from 9- 10am and 4-5.30pm. One museum is open only during the morning only and one museum is open in the afternoon only. One museum is not open to the public. • Eight museums are open all year though some have more limited opening hours during the off-peak season. Five museums are closed during the off-season period. CHARLES DUGGAN ARHITECTURAL HERITAGE ADVISOR 4
AUDIT OF MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN COUNTY KILDARE 2006 4.0 METHODOLOGY The Audit was divided into three phases. The first phase involved the development of a questionnaire the purpose of which was to allow participating organizations audit their own operations, providing an opportunity to self-evaluate the strengths and weaknesses. The questionnaires were returned and subsequently audited. The results of this audit form the basis of this report. The questionnaire was interrogative and aimed to look at each organization under the following headings: • Management and staffing structure: • Education and outreach facilities • Development • Public Relations • Opening hours • Visitor numbers • Services • Funding and grant aiding • Fundraising • The Collection, collection policy and documentation • Conservation • Storage facilities • Other facilities such as café/shop/toilets/reading room • Marketing and promotional strategy Phase two of the survey involved site visits to participating organizations to view the collections and venues at first hand, to gain from them a more complete understanding of the collections and remit. It also provided an opportunity to see the collections in display and in storage. The site visit also provided the opportunity to ask about the future training needs of the organizations. The quantifying and collation of the questionnaire data forms the final part of this Audit report. CHARLES DUGGAN ARHITECTURAL HERITAGE ADVISOR 5
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