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Are our museums fit for the future?

As NSW local governments face impending restructures, how will remote and regional museums limber up for the change in culture?

22 May 2015

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

In one of the opening sessions of the 2015 Museums Australia Conference, Dr Sally Watterson tackled a topic raw and real, and one dwelling in everyone’s mind especially with last week’s budget announcements.

Titled Paucity and plenty: reflections on regional spaces in a changing world her paper looked at the relationship between government and remote and regional museums.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina