Christopher Tassell interviewed by Jan Lyall in the Conservation and preservation profession in Australia oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2424324
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tassell, Christopher, 1949-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2003
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 61 min.)
- Series:
- Conservation and preservation profession in Australia oral history project.
- Summary:
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Christopher Tassell born in Wagga Wagga, N.S.W., talks about his family and early life; graduating in Geology and his first job as assistant curator of paleontology in the National Museum of Victoria; his awareness of conservation being aroused by the deteriorating state of some of the ichthyosaurs and there being no conservator on staff; moving to Western Australia and setting up a branch of the Western Australia Museum at Albany; Colin Pearson; becoming aware of how a professionally operated conservation department could influence an entire institution; commencing work in June 1978 as Director of the Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery (QVMAG); talks of how the staff has grown, the expansion and move of the site.
Tassell speaks about his membership of the Conservation Working Party; the Heritage Collections Committee (HCC); the National Collections Advisory Forum; why the Forum is critical in determining the future of the cultural heritage sector; the membership of the Forum; the need for the Museum to be relevant to the local community; the review into its operations in the early 1990s; explains how politics intervened with the idea of Inveresk becoming a cultural centre; how the QVMAG provides services to the state; gives his views on how he believes a central facility could operate; his belief that conservation training needs to be relevant to the industry; the various challenges of not being on the mainland; comments on the management of collections within the constraints placed on institutions by government policies.
- Notes:
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-208225622
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Lyall, Jan (Janice Margaret), 1941-, interviewer
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This belongs to the Conservation and preservation profession in Australia oral history project.
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- Unpublished
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- 2003
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