The AGM & Annual Forum of the AFFM will be held in Sydney Friday 29 and Saturday 30 October 2010.

This year's AFFM annual forum and AGM will be held in Sydney at the Historic Houses Trust building, The Mint on Macquarie Street on Friday 29 October at 10 am.

The program offers a range of interesting items for Friends and Member groups. I urge you to let your members know that they are welcome to attend, to learn more about our organisation and to see first hand the exciting cultural projects that are happening in Sydney and across Australia.

There will be two sessions in the Forum and tours of State Parliament House with dinner being held in the Royal Botanic Gardens. For those staying on for the weekend, we have tours of Government House, Botanic gardens and a special exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW - do come along!

The AGM notification, registration form and program schedule will be forwarded to you soon but can be found here PDF

Please email aadam@anmm.gov.au for more information


 

Promoting Museums
Friends across Africa-Asia-Pacific Conference
held 7 September - 10 September 2006, Sydney Australia

Read transcripts of talks and lectures given at this successful conference can be found below:

Among many highlights of the conference, Edmund Capon’s speech was unforgettable. Urbane and witty, the well-chosen words of the director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales charted the changes in curators’ attitudes to Friends and the public. Here is text of his warmly encouraging address. (PDF 57 KB)

A major conference theme was exploring the ‘big impact of small museums’, which included the exchange of ideas and strategies for organisations working with limited budgets. Maisy Stapleton, CEO, Museums and Galleries NSW, explored the idea of small museums as advocates and innovators and shared some case histories, discussing introducing the concept of the curatorium and showing how small museums use flexible management to create new paradigms of museum and gallery development. (PDF 47 KB)

Julia Oh, former WFFM Secretary General and past president of the Friends of the Museums Singapore, reported to the conference on actions recently taken by the World Federation of Friends of Museums on this important issue. She explains how WFFM became involved and what future steps are proposed. (PDF 118 KB)