Month: October 2024

History Trust of South Australia, Artlab Australia and South Australian Fire and Emergency Services win South Australian Resilient Australia Award

A South Australian Resilient Australia Government Award has recently been won by the History Trust of South Australia, Artlab Australia and South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission for the Strengthening Disaster Resilience Training for South Australian Community Museums project.

This project sought to improve disaster resilience within community museums in both metropolitan and regional areas. A training program developed by Artlab Australia and History Trust of South Australia and funded by SAFECOM was delivered to five Museums and Collections members. Hahndorf Academy, St Johns Ambulance Museum, Port Lincoln History Group, Axel Stenross Maritime Museum and Clare National Trust.

The disaster resilience training program equipped the participants and their museums with the essential skills needed to undertake disaster preparedness, risk assessments and emergency protocols. In addition, the project fostered collaboration between emergency management and emergency services stakeholders with cultural heritage organisations in South Australia.

The History Trust of South Australia would like to congratulate everyone involved in this important program and thank the community groups who got on board and made it a success.

The History Trust of South Australia is pleased to introduce Alice Beale our new Senior Curator – Community Engagement.

Alice has been associated with the South Australian GLAM sector for more than a decade in her role as Senior Collection Manager – Humanities and World Cultures at the South Australian Museum (SAM). In that time, she has managed major collection projects, developed, and participated in public programs and curated exhibitions. Prior to returning to South Australia Alice worked as a Curator in the Anthropology and Archaeology Department at the Western Australian Museum.

Some recent highlights from Alice’s work at SAM have been the 2020 Story Necklace exhibition, featuring a 50-metre necklace from Ikuntji Artists, and in 2022, she created a public program centred on conserving SAM’s tapa cloth collection in collaboration with Artlab Australia textile conservators, where the public could view the conservation work in the Pacific Cultures Gallery.

Alice has published widely on collection management practices and teaches collection management to post graduate students at the University of Adelaide. Additionally, Alice served on the Australian Museums and Galleries South Australian Branch committee for seven years.

Alice is passionate about collection care and making collections accessible in ways that benefit local communities and is excited to be supporting South Australian history organisations and community collections.

“I am thrilled to have Alice Beale join the curatorial team. She is a fantastically skilled and thorough curator and collection manager, who brings a fresh set of eyes and enthusiasm to our community programs, and I know she is excited to support history and museum projects across South Australia and also meet the communities that we serve through our grants and outreach programs.”

Dr Adam Paterson, Manager Curatorial.

Please join us in welcoming Alice to the South Australian History Network.