Europe UK (Commonwealth Union) – The Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales are set to join hands and work together on Higher Education and the Heritage sector in Wales.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales is a charity that includes 7 national museums that in combination give the story of Wales. They include the National Museum Cardiff, National Waterfront Museum, National Slate Museum, St Fagans National Museum of History and others. These institutions house extensive collections of Welsh art, history, and natural history, and are responsible for researching, preserving, and interpreting Welsh heritage and culture.
The strategic collaboration between the 2 organizations will see them join hands across 5 areas: research and innovation; safeguarding and restoring the environment; digital cultures and adaptive technologies; skills, talent and lifelong learning; and ensuring wellbeing as well as inclusive representation through an appreciation of heritage.
In spite of the long past of the 2 organizations working together to address research and civic and societal issues, the new partnership is set to guarantee further alignment of expertise, experience along with resources.
There prior collaborations that had been positive, consisted of work on the CAER Heritage project, hands-on bioscience-related projects across Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales’s sites, and research such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded, “Refugee Wales – The Afterlife of Violence”.
The plans ahead consist of the formation of specific courses for the next generation of heritage graduates, further bilateral staff secondments along with increased students and postdoctoral researchers taking up projects, placements and internships.
The collaboration will further include academics from both institutions look inro solutions for common challenges, like meeting Net Zero targets and forming new ways of gaining exposure to wider and under-represented audiences via digital technologies.
A formal signing ceremony of the organizations took place earlier in February at the Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, opening a new chapter for both organizations.
