Call For Papers

Confirmed Speakers and Papers

Subject - Managing the Unexpected

Prof Graham Matthews BA(Hons) Dip Lib PhD MCILP - Emergency Planning in UK Museums
Tim Bryan – Head of Collections and Interpretation, Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon - Facing the unexpected: coping with a disaster
Insurance Company - From an Insurance perspective
Ian Walden OBE – Black Country Museum - Preserving Buildings: what has it got to do with cars?

Subject - Museum Exhibits

Geoff Smith - Vice President and past Chairman of FBHVC, and a past Vice President of FIVA (Féderation Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) - The importance of maintaining the freedom of the road for historic vehicles
Peter Mitchell OBE FRI Founder patron/partner of BMIHT Director/Trustee, Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust - Are Museum Visitors important?
Gavin Fry – Director, Newcastle Regional Museum, Australia - Telling Stories – but which one? Interpreting the motorcar in a general museum context
Raja Gargour Director of the Royal Automobile Museum Jordan - The unique problems of portraying the history of a country through cars exhibited

Subject - Education

Sir John Whitmore - Coaching is about Leadership
Dr Paul Frost PhD, MSc, BA – Head of the School of Service Management, University of Brighton - Learning to get a bigger slice of the pie
Gary Wragg Curator, Milestones Living History Museum - Traders of the lost art. How to keep our engineering heritage
Tim Bryan BMIHT, Stephen Laing Curator - BMIHT - Reinventing the wheel: Telling new stories at the Heritage Motor Centre – 25 minutes. With follow up paper The Road Ahead project
Craig Cheetham Vauxhall Heritage Centre - Setting up a schools programme within a small museum
Pietro Blondi President of Motor Valley, Board Member of Gallery of Motor Sport Modena Italy - A centre of documentation for reconstructing and disseminating the culture of Motor Valley

Subject - Curatorial

Mark Taylor Director of the Museums Association - How to create projects with international partners
Andrea Bishop – Collections and Information Manager - National Motor Museum, Beaulieu - Lifting the bonnet on our heritage
Heather Boyns Archives Project Officer, National Motor Museum, Beaulieu - From Oily Rags to Acid Free Tags
Margit Adamova Head of the Museum, Eva Ticova Head of the Restoring Workshop, Skoda Auto Museum - Presentation of Skoda Auto Museum as a company museum
Anders Ditlev Clausager, Chief Archivist – Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust - Museum publishing – the problems with (not just the cost) Records Database – to be confirmed?

Subject - Sustainability

Rob Widdows Goodwood - Goodwood Revival Historic motor racing as entertainment
Cynthia Hansen Action Planning - Income Generation and corporate fundraising
Kelvin Ferris Chairman of MM of Western Australia - Running a Museum with Volunteers
Olaf Delafon – President of The Friends of Automobile Museums – France - Strategic Marketing

Field Trips

Steve Bagley – Principal Curator Coventry Transport Museum - The Ethos of a Free Museum
Christian Redford MA – Curator of SS Great Britain - The 10 awards presented to SS Great Britain since re-opening in 2005

Evening Speakers