RELOCATION AND VISIBLE STORAGE
     An A.R.C. Professional Development Seminar 1997

     This Professional Development Seminar "Relocation and Visible
     Storage", organised by the Australian Registrars Committee, will
     address the issues arising from major relocations of Museum and
     Gallery collections.  The seminar will examine as case studies the
     impending move of the Museum of Victoria to its Exhibition Gardens
     site from the point of view of management and storage design, and the
     experiences of the major relocation of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa
     Tongarewa in Wellington.

     The seminar will also address the practical and ethical issues of
     visible storage, and examine  examples in Australia, including
     Scienceworks and the Australian War Memorial.

     The seminar encompasses 1.5 days of papers and a panel discussion,
     and a site tour of the new Moreland Annexe (state of the art storage)
     of the Museum of Victoria.

     Speakers include Lesley Cobb (Relocations Officer, Museum of New
     Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa), and Martin Hallett (Director of Collection
     and Regional Services, Museum of Victoria), and Vince Wilcox
     (Smithsonian Museum, USA) as a member of a discussion panel.

     This Seminar will be invaluable to collections managers, registrars,
     and curators of museum and art collections of all sizes, and also to
     students of Museum and Art Curatorial Studies.

     Date:   12-13th June 1997
     Venue:  The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
     Cost: (full seminar/one day)
     ARC Members $65/$50, non-members $90/$75

     Please register your interest in this important seminar as soon as
     possible.

     For further information and Registration Form contact :
     Heather Lowe, Hon Sec., Australian Registrar's Committee
     email: [log in to unmask]
     ph (03) 9344 7933, fax (03) 9344 4484