Issue - meetings

Purpose

To review the achievements of Portsmouth Museums in 2019/20 and to present the museum service ‘Plan on a Page’ (PoP) for the current financial year.

RECOMMENDED that

(1)  The achievements of 2019/20 are noted.

(2)  A new Museums Strategy is developed in dialogue with stakeholders.

(3)  The Landing Craft Tank (LCT) project is completed in partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, opening in 2020 as part of the D-Day Story.

(4)  Audiences are broadened and better understood by involving them in the work of the museums service and through special projects, programming, evaluation and visitor surveys.

(5)  Standards of customer care are raised through training and performance monitoring and that the museums service continues to develop volunteers and paid staff to create a single integrated team

(6)  Preparations begin to renew accreditation with Arts Council England. 

The report was introduced by Jane Mee, Museum and Visitor Services Manager. 

The Cabinet and opposition members thanked Jane for her thorough report. Members looked forward to the opening of the Landing Craft Tank later this year which would be a great attraction for the city.

DECISIONS:
(1) The achievements of 2019/20 were noted.

(2) That a new Museums Strategy is developed in dialogue with stakeholders.

(3) That the Landing Craft Tank (LCT) project is completed in partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, opening in 2020 as part of the D-Day Story.

(4) That audiences are broadened and better understood by involving them in the work of the museums service and through special projects, programming, evaluation and visitor surveys.

(5) That standards of customer care are raised through training and performance monitoring and that the museums service continues to develop volunteers and paid staff to create a single integrated team

(6) That preparations begin to renew accreditation with Arts Council England.