Archaeology Lifelines
SMA Annual Conference
Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales on 7th-8th of November 2024
National Museum Cardiff
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NP
and livestreamed
ATTENDEE CONFERENCE PACK & FINAL PROGRAMME
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SMA would like to acknowledge MSDS Heritage for generously sponsoring the afternoon refreshments of the 7th of November. MSDS Heritage offer a range of conservation services for the heritage and archaeological sector.
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE 2024
SMA annual Awards for Excellence 2024
We are delighted to announce the nominations for the Society’s Annual Awards for Excellence will open on Monday 19th August 2024.
The SMA awards are not about recognising the biggest, most shiny, or most expensive. The awards celebrate excellent practice, clear impact and people development at whatever level across the full spectrum of our museum world. It’s easy to apply with winners presented with their awards at the SMA conference in Cardiff on 8th November.
Information for making an entry can be found by downloading this document: INFORMATION FOR ENTRIES
Here’s a quick overview:
Categories
- Exhibition, Display or Interpretation project
- Collections based project
- Engagement and/or collaboration project
- Volunteering award
All projects should have been completed, within the UK, during the calendar year to 31st July 2024. Entries can be for physical and digital projects.
Deadlines
CLOSING DATE for entry is midnight on 14th OCTOBER 2024. Winners will be notified before the conference and presented at the SMA conference on Friday 8th November.
Good luck!
We are delighted to announce the nominations for the Society’s Annual Awards for Excellence will open on Monday 19th August 2024.
The SMA awards are not about recognising the biggest, most shiny, or most expensive. The awards celebrate excellent practice, clear impact and people development at whatever level across the full spectrum of our museum world. It’s easy to apply with winners presented with their awards at the SMA conference in Cardiff on 8th November.
Information for making an entry can be found by downloading this document, but here’s a quick overview:
Categories
- Exhibition, Display or Interpretation project
- Collections based project
- Engagement and/or collaboration project
- Volunteering award
All projects should have been completed, within the UK, during the calendar year to 31st July 2024. Entries can be for physical and digital projects.
Deadlines
CLOSING DATE for entry is midnight on 29th September 2024. Winners will be notified on Friday 11th October and awards will be presented at the SMA conference on Friday 8th November.
Good luck!
Watch our Conference 2019 videos online!
Keynote:The Telling of Human Stories
Waiting in the Wings (digital archaeological archives)
Driving Community Engagement and Research: a vision for Watling Street
Numismatics, Norman England and other Tricky Issues
Is Disposal a participatory practice?
Experiencing the gods: Displaying and interpreting Romano-British religion in museums
How can I put this? Interpreting the Evil Eye for a modern audience
Watch our Conference 2018 videos online!
And the individual videos are:
Bristol’s Brilliant Archaeology: planning for all ‘event’ …ualities
Your Dig: York Archaeological Trust’s new Participatory Community Engagement Programme
Visitor perceptions of, and engagement with, British prehistory displays
Positive Action with a 3D Printer
Documentation and Curation of 3D Visualization Projects
Displaying the Dead: results of the Leeds Museum visitor survey
A new approach to rationalising archaeological shell
Charging Ahead: Exploring fees for the transfer of archaeological archives in museums in England
I like to move it, move it……into archive suitable boxes
Pottery Shop? What Pottery Shop? Re – thinking Corbridge from the base up
Improving Archaeological Reference Collections and Typologies
Archaeology matters: pass it on!
Forging a positive collaboration between Swindon Museum & Art Gallery & Cardiff University
Old Collections, New Questions: Researching the Roman collections of the Yorkshire Museum
Birmingham: rediscovering archaeology for a superdiverse city
Putting Cyprus on the Map: promoting the Cypriot archaeology collections at Museums Sheffield
Papyrus for the People at the Petrie Museum