CONSULTANCY SERVICES
The Rowan Tree offers heritage & cultural consultancy and locum services tailored for museums,
galleries, heritage sites, heritage building custodians, collectors, local and family historians. We can provide
advice or project manage your heritage and museum interpretations, exhibitions, collections, education, public programs,
workshops, training and events. Services can also be applied to individual elements depending on client requirements.
Museum and gallery projects, partnerships and events has been recognised by national & state museum and gallery awards. These include:
and Shires Association of NSW Award
Industry recognition through conference papers have included:
Women Transported – Life in Australia’s Convict
Female Factories
and Gallery Programming
Activating Audiences and Community Support
Diverting Disaster, The Australian Museum
and Museum The Pemulwuy Dilemma
Curatorial
Fabrication
Interpretation
Travelling Exhibition
Management
Exhibition concept development; grant applications; content research; critical, editorial and interpretive writing
Object identification, loans.
Identify and manage fabrication needs and presentation.
Exhibtion installation.
Content, interpretation hierarchy, individual and group focus visitor trails for adults, children, education, family, tourism and lifelong learning opportunities
Content development through to printing
Venue identification; tour preparation; liaison between project initiator, lenders and venues; tour manuals, object management including preservation, condition reporting, facility reports and object handling requirements; media kits, events and education/public programming.
Projects have included art and history exhibitions such as Drawn Together – the drawing lives of Nora Heysen, Judy Cassab and Margaret Woodward and Women Transported – life in Australia’s Convict Female Factories and Inside Looking Out. These travelled over five states to venues as varied as the National Archives of Australia, Ballarat Regional Gallery, Fremantle Prison and Cascades Female Factory.
Collection Documentation
Collection Access
Risk Assessment and
Disaster Planning
Collection assessment – significance, preservation needs, rehousing, storage, packing.
Development of preservation and conservation strategies and implementation plans for collections.
Collection mapping.
Collection research.
Statements of significance.
Object cataloguing and data entry for archaeological, social history and art collections from early Colonial times to contemporary objects.
Quality photography of collection objects for conservation, publication and web access by museum trained photographer.
Online access.
Research access.
Collection interpretation tours.
Collection focused public programming.
Collection publications.
Developing robust but accessible risk assessments and disaster planning.
Learning Program Development Implementation and Presentation
Museum Specific Education Program Development
In-house Training
Education Publications
family groups and social groups of all ages.
Workshops, holiday programs, lectures, presentations and tours
Develop programs and activities to enable teacher facilitation of an optimal
school visit to heritage sites and museums.
Pre and post visit activities can also be included.
Holistic education experience that includes the museum and the class room
as separate entities or as webinars.
Enhancement of learning experience through development of museum specific
education programs.
Using curriculum objectives linked to specific onsite learning interpretation tools such as exhibitions and collections and in-house developed publications apps or programs.
Collection preservation principles, handling, documentation for paid and volunteer staff.
Guiding basics – exhibition floor talks and site guiding.
Cultural History immersion days, European and Australian – assists in development of understanding for paid and volunteer staff of historical cultural contexts for people,
place and collection objects.
Development of content for: Education Kits | Teacher’s Guides, Floor Guides,
Electronic whiteboard friendly DVD Roms | Content for tablet and phone apps
Education specific publications have included Women Transported
Learning Resources For All Ages DVD, Drawn Together DVD,
Drawn Together Education Kit, We Were Burnie Kids DVD.
Heritage Tours
cultural context including museum and heritage sites:
Launches
Floor talks, seminars, panel discussions
Conferences
Commemorative days and theme days
Historical anniversary celebrations and
heritage events
Arts, crafts and cultural access days
see Tours page.
Mother and Child. 6. Gay Hendriksen receives IMAGinE Award from David Berner. 7., 8., 9. Women Transported launch – participants, speakers and Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir with Gay Hendriksen and launch guests.
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