RE-ORG Atlantic: One-day conference

Conference aims

Recognizing that providing adequate storage has become one of the main challenges of running a museum, the aim of this conference is threefold:

1. to share the experience of the six Atlantic-based museums participating in the RE‑ORG: Canada program, CCI's five-year training program on storage reorganization;
2. to share the outcomes of other national and international RE-ORG courses held in Ontario, China and Belgium; and
3. to explore practical lessons learned from museums like yours that have been involved in storage upgrade or reorganization projects of different scales.

It is by having honest discussions about the challenges we face that we may shed some light on solutions going forward.

Video recordings of presentations

The presentations at the RE-ORG: Canada (Atlantic) – Adventures in Storage Reorganization one-day conference were recorded so that they could be shared after the event. Below are links to online videos of each presentation.

Full playlist

• Welcome and introduction, Margaret Mulrooney, Colchester Historeum, and Simon Lambert, CCI
• RE-ORG: China – Reorganizing the storage of the Wuhou Shrine Museum, Alicia Ghadban, CCI
• RE-ORG: Belgium: A big project in a small country, Marjolijn Debulpaep, KIK-IRPA (via Skype)
• RE-ORG: Canada (Atlantic) storage condition reports
  • Nova Scotia Museum, Lisa Bower
  • Galerie d'art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen, Nisk Imbeault
  • Musée acadien, Jeanne-Mance Cormier
  • New Brunswick Museum, Cheryl Thorne and Randi Jalil
  • PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation and CMA PEI, Jason MacNeil and Lesley Caseley
• Reorganizing a storage area in three days, Margaret Mulrooney, Colchester Historeum, and Lynn Marie Richard, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
  • Video of the RE-ORG: Canada (Atlantic) three-day workshop
• Evicted! Moving and reorganization of a small museum textile collection, Christine Lynch and Krystal Tanner, Randall House Museum
• 365 days of storage reorganization: Norfolk Arts Centre, a case study, Carrie Kitzul, Norfolk Arts Centre
• Simultaneous preservation of artefact and self: The health and safety of museum collections storage, Ruth Murgatroyd, York Sunbury Historical Society

Partners

• Colchester Historeum, Truro, Nova Scotia
• Association of Nova Scotia Museums
• ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
• Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Belgium

Additional information

Please contact CCI if you require additional information.