the city Museum in Stockholm was closed for renovation in January 2015. One purpose of the renovation was to do a larger part of the listed building from the 1660s available for visitors – the public surface has increased by one thousand square feet to the inauguration on april 27. At the same time, it is now clear that the workforce is shrinking at the museum.
because of the cuts in the city kulturbudget, as DN has reported on earlier, will 14 services to disappear on Stadsmuseiavdelningen during the year. Because the additional 13 vacant posts have been suspended for the past year, means the total workforce reduced by a quarter. It confirms Ann-Charlotte Backlund, who is the head of the Stadsmuseiavdelningen.
” it is clear that It requires that we streamline our way of working. Our focus is on the locals to get the most out of the museum activities.
” we don’t really know yet. We will need to add a jigsaw puzzle to get it to go together. In the puzzle is the public business priority.
” A museum is a bit like an iceberg – a lot of people think maybe only on the public business, but there is much that is happening under the surface, behind the scenes. We have a fairly large number of people who work with our collections in different ways. We may not be able to work with the same speed when it comes to the acquisition of the object. The samlingskunniga staff will also be involved in the public activities. It is an example of efficiency.
” We will work much more systematically to make the collection available digitally, in order to reduce the case management of individual fotobeställningar.
– We hope. This year we have a special money in the budget for the digitaliseringsfrågor. It is a long-term work. We have several million images, and it is a huge work.
Since the Museum opened to the public in 1942, it has been housed in the South of the city hall previous premises, which was designed by Nicodemus Tessin d.ä. 1663. The new permanent exhibition visitors should be able to take part of Stockholm’s history from 1527 to the present day.
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Within the Stadsmuseiavdelningen also includes Stockholmia publishing house and Museum of medieval stockholm. According to Ann-Charlotte Backlund, however, is not the cuts to the reason that the Museum has closed down its helgverksamhet for children and the impressions that had previously been free has been coated with the charge.
” We have temporarily closed Hantverkstan the Museum is an activity for children. It mainly depends on that it is not as great demand during the spring. We have always taken the paid for various impressions and still has free admission.
According to Backlund has besökstalen the Museum more than doubled in the past year, which, however, does not involve increased resources from the city.
– Because we have free entrance there is not any connection to the higher revenue. We have a lot of visitors and it is important to be able to give a qualitative treatment, ” says Ann-Charlotte Backlund.
” No, but the skills that we possess may have the potential to reach more. There are no simple solutions. Irrespective of the economic aspect is every retirement will be a loss. Every human being has a unique expertise.
– It is obvious that we are undergoing a complicated process. It is about people and it would be strange if it would not be noticed at the personal level. Our mission is to serve the people of stockholm a fantastic business and I am absolutely convinced that we will do in the future. It is not possible to equate fewer people and less knowledge. It is about how we spread it.
