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CAROL BUNBURY - BAFM,
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E-mail: robert-logan@bafm.org.uk
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2007 Award is Lucy Price. Lucy wins a cash prize of £500 and an invitation to take part as one of the panel of speakers at both the BAFM and the AIM conferences, giving her the opportunity to meet a range of people who work in and support museums and the wider heritage sector.
Lucy Price grew up on Dartmoor in Devon, went to school in Okehampton and, after taking a BA in History at UWE, Bristol, completed an MSc at Cardiff University in Care of Collections. In June 2002 Lucy began working as a Preventive Conservator for Historic Royal Palaces, based at Kensington Palace and also working at Hampton Court, the Tower of London and Kew Palace.
In August 2004, she joined the London Fire Brigade Museum as an Assistant Curator, and since June 2007 has been Curator in charge of the museum temporarily as her colleague is away on maternity leave. The role is very varied, from running school visits and other group tours, research into brigade history and service records, cataloguing, preventive conservation and environmental monitoring, and of course caring for the many artefacts that make up the museum's unique collection. As there are only two full time members of staff, the work of the nine volunteers is essential to the running of the museum.
The London Fire Brigade Museum is a small museum in Southwark which houses a unique collection. Beginning with the 1666 Great Fire of London, right through to WWII and the Blitz, and the role that the LFB has today, it tells the story of how London came to have a fire brigade in the city, and how it has developed over the years. Housed in the home of a former Chief Officer, the brigade museum has cared for a collection since the 1960's; in the 1990's the collection was opened to the public for the first time. The museum was initially staffed by ex-fire-fighters, and for the last eight years, the museum has employed qualified museum professionals.
Virginia Mayes-Wright - Museums Development Officer for Herefordshire
In April 2006 Virginia answered a call for papers to the European Museum Advisors Conference. The European Museum Advisors Conference is a group of advisors from all over Europe who meet every two years to share experiences and best practice and discuss their different advisory systems.
The conference theme this year was ‘quality’. The topics covered included quality of advisory systems, and quality and standards in the museums advised. The Keynote Speaker, Director of the Hungarian Natural History Museum opened the conference with the wise words “Inspectors are sent, advisors are asked for.” Listening to presentations and visiting Hungarian museums has enabled Virginia to gain new ideas and ways of achieving quality of advice.
Virginia’s presentation highlighted the quality and consistency of advice being achieved through the Museum Development Officer Project in the West Midlands. Her presentation was heard with interest by the delegates, and with other colleagues from the British Isles she informed the other delegates about the changing picture of advice in England.
The conference programme included visits to several museums including the 2005 Hungarian Museum of the Year, the ‘House of Terror’. These allowed Virginia to experience different ways of working within museums.
The conference gave Virginia the chance to learn about different ways that museums are organised, funded and governed in different countries throughout Europe. She networked with international colleagues discussing issues as diverse as advice systems and registration schemes.
Virginia commented, “The conference has really broadened my mind through hearing European colleagues discussing different methods of tackling similar problems.”
