Annual Report 2010-2011 - Western Australian Museum

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Western Australian Museum ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011 COLLECTIONS, RESEARCH AND STUDy The Museum acquires, conserves, manages and studies the evidence of people and their environment for the benefit of society both now and into the future. With over 4.5 million objects in the collection, the Museum shares its knowledge with the community, encouraging and inspiring people to understand and experience the world around them. • Environmental offset funding of $1.6 million was received from Rio Tinto to construct a state-of-the-art molecular laboratory at the Museum’s Welshpool Research and Collection Centre. This facility will enhance the Museum’s capacity to rapidly identify species using DNA techniques. • The Museum continues its exceptional work in describing new species, with 61 described this year. • The Museum’s partnership with Woodside Energy Limited – exploring the Kimberley will continue to 2015 with significant increase in funding support from Woodside. • Another important partnership with the ‘Atlas of Living Australia’ project is making information about Australia’s biodiversity more accessible and useable online. With $68,182 of infrastructure funding from the project, the Museum will accelerate its digitisation of images and specimens to maximise its input to this online resource. • The Museum’s collection of historic Dutch Shipwreck artefacts has been further enhanced by a gift from the Dutch Government late last year. The gift is comprised of more than 1,125 objects from 17 th and 18 th Century Dutch East India Company ships wrecked off the coast of Western Australia, including bullion, cargo, navigational equipment and the personal possessions of crew and passengers. A selection of artefacts from this collection has been on display since February 2011. FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENTS The Museum is committed to rigorous financial management ensuring effectiveness, efficiency and value-for-money. In recognising the importance of its financial sustainability, the Museum is investigating commercial opportunities, seeking out partnerships and promoting entrepreneurial practices, all of which will contribute to improved financial outcomes. • The Museum achieved a positive financial outturn for 2010/2011, delivering a balanced budget position in its general operating activities. • In order to develop a more sustainable business model for the future, the Museum commissioned a Financial Management and Business Sustainability Review and has already implemented 11 of its 12 recommendations. • The Museum has appointed a new Director to head its Foundation as it seeks to encourage public investment in the organisation through corporate partnerships, donations, gifts and bequests. Jane Harris was, until recently, fundraising director with the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation in Melbourne. • Andrew and Nicola Forrest made a very generous gift of shares to the Western Australian Museum Foundation – the largest philanthropic gift received to date. • The Museum continues to rationalise its property portfolio assets. Permission was obtained from the necessary authorities for the Museum’s former conservation workshop (also known as the former US Navy’s temporary Laundry Building) in Finnerty Street, Fremantle to be safely demolished in the second half of 2011. 10 BACK CONTENTS FORWARD
AWARDS AND HONOURS BACK CONTENTS FORWARD Western Australian Museum ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011 • Palaeontologist Dr Katherine trinajstic received one of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science in 2010 for her work in the preservation of fossilised soft tissue of ancient fish. Dr Trinajstic, who is also a Curtin University School of Science Research Fellow, won the $50,000 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the year, which recognises early career researchers who have made outstanding achievements in the physical sciences. • the Museum’s Geraldton site received a silver award at the 2010 WA Tourism awards in the heavily contested category of ‘Tourist Attraction’. The award recognised the diverse exhibitions and programs on offer at the Museum, including its magnificent collection from four significant early Dutch shipwrecks, its guided tours and enthusiastic visitor services team. • loisette Marsh and shirley slack-smith, members of the Museum’s scientific staff, received a commendation in the prestigious 2010 Whitley Awards that recognise outstanding publications dealing with the promotion and conservation of Australasian fauna. They received the commendation for their new edition of Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates of Western Australia. • WA Museum Trustee, professor Geoffrey Bolton, was awarded the John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction for Historical Research and Writing. The medal is a joint Royal Historical Society of Queensland and Public History Association (Queensland) award. • Research Associate Dr Barbara york Main was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Awards for “service to science and conservation as a researcher and educator in the field of arachnology, and to the community of Western Australia”. • In March 2010, Research Associate Dr Michael Rix was awarded the 2009 Robert Street Prize for research excellence by the University of Western Australia in recognition of his PhD research on the taxonomy and systematics of the southern-temperate spider family Micropholcommatidae. • Dr paul Doughty, Curator of Herpetology, was the recipient of an ABRS Churchill Fellowship 2010 for his work on the biodiversity of Australian frogs and reptiles and describing a plethora of new species. • Dr ian Macleod, Executive Director, Collections Management and Conservation, was awarded a Getty Conservation Institute Fellowship for four months to conduct research into the conservation of shipwrecks and the use of in-situ treatments for managing the wreck sites. Dr MacLeod was also elected President of the Australasian Corrosion Association. • The photographic book Australian Minescapes received high commendation in the 2010 Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards. • Restoration work on the Shipwrecks Galleries undertaken by the Heritage Conservation Architectural team of Alan Kelsall and piero casellati, received a Heritage Award from the City of Fremantle – Town of East Fremantle. • The Museum’s website HMAs Sydney (II) won awards in the categories of ‘Arts and Events’ and ‘Education’ in the Western Division of the Australian Web Awards, and was also a short-listed finalist in both categories in the National Division. • the Museum’s Albany site was named as a finalist for two Western Australian Heritage Awards recognising: outstanding contribution to conservation and promotion of cultural heritage; and excellence in adapting a site listed on the State Register of Heritage Places. 11
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