Behind the scenes

The Options Appraisals and Business Plans for Musselburgh and North Berwick have now been released for public viewing. They look at the best options for re-opening the museum in North Berwick and establishing a new museum in Musselburgh. The consultants, Jura, submitted the reports to East Lothian Councillors who have now asked for costings for the various proposals as suggested in the Business Plans.

It will be interesting to hear the public’s views on the various options. I’m a relative newcomer to the whole situation and so I missed the consultation stage but it seems that Jura got the views of a range of different people and have included these throughout their reports. There is still the opportunity for people to get involved so if you’re like me and missed out, then you can respond to these reports by getting in touch!

  I’ve been thinking about our museums blog alot recently. Should we continue with it? Does anyone really read it?

 I was asked to contribute to a recent study by a student at Leicester University which looked at why museums blog. The general consensus seemed to be that blogging by museums was still in its experimental stages but the potential was there to reach new audiences through it.

 I guess the advantage of a blog like this is that it allows us to tell the story of what goes on behind the museum buildings.

Many of our visitors and people involved with the museum service only see a tiny part of what goes on so I’m going to try and give more of an idea of the huge variety of things that happen in a busy, but small museums service!

Any comments on what you’d rather see, or hear about, would be most welcome!