COLLECTIONS REVIEWS
Collections are without doubt the heart of any museum and many heritage organisations. Finding out what you have, why you have it and knowing what to do with it is often a great challenge for staff and volunteers.
I can help museums understand their collections better, organise and manage their collections to get the most out of them. This is very much a tailored process to your collection and to your outcomes. Work could include an audit to check collections are where they are supposed to be, working closely with your team and external experts to help identify those ‘mystery’ objects and providing realistic recommendations for rationalisation together with budgets and timescales.
Greenwood Projects have worked with Helen over nine months as part of an early stage review of a significant Cathedral. The project pulled together a number of different disciplines each with their own individual work strands and collaborative outcomes. Elements of the work were also undertaken with the backdrop of responding to Covid-19 which meant we had to change our working approach. Helen was very proactive at keeping in contact with the project and client team during this difficult time which was appreciated immensely.
Helen undertook a collections review for our client. The detail and passion Helen put into the research was very apparent to both ourselves and the client. Helen went above and beyond, positively impacting the project. Helen was able to engage with a range of different key stakeholders for this project working alongside the Cathedral team and approach the current challenges sensitively yet robustly. Alongside her own role in the project she also actively supported others and bought insight into a number of key areas. Helen never hesitated in pointing the team in the right direction of resources that would help and this support was invaluable.
We cannot recommend Helen highly enough, not only is her work of the highest quality she is friendly, approachable and diligent. Helen was a pleasure to work with and we hope to work together soon.