Performance commentaries output group 1.1

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• Preliminaries
• Part 1 - Director's review of operations
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  • Guiding principles for performance
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  • Performance at a glance
  • Performance commentaries output group 1.1
    • Background
    • New collecting policy
    • New acquisitions
    • Collection control and documentation
    • Outward and inward object loans
    • Increased public interest in access to collections
    • Collection storage improvements
    • Conservation achievements
    • The return of Indigenous human remains and sacred objects
    • Valuation of the National Historical Collection
    • Disposal of items in the National Historical Collection
    • Snapshots of the Museum
  • Performance commentaries output group 1.2
• Part 3 - Accountability and management
• Part 4 - Financial statements
• Part 5 - Appendices
• Multimedia
• Annual Report PDF

Output group 1.1: Collection development and management

• New Collections Development Policy, Framework and Implementation Plan were introduced to guide future acquisitions, exhibitions and programs.
  
  
• 32 new acquisitions were approved by Council.
  
  
• Collection documentation and control were improved.
  
  
• There was a large scale rationalisation of collection and non-collection storage.
  
  
• There was a 50 per cent increase in public visits to collections in storage.
  
  
• A staff member was appointed to the Australian Government's Cultural Heritage Reference Group for Iraq.
  
  
• Conservation advice was provided to the local community affected by the January bushfires.
  
  
• International masterclasses in photographic conservation were presented at the Museum.
  
  
• The remains of 405 individuals were returned to Aboriginal communities.