Museums
The Museums Department is responsible for implementing the Ministry of Culture’s policy on public museum collections at the regional level.
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The Museums Department is responsible for implementing at regional level the policy of the Ministry of Culture with regard to public museum collections and, in particular, the provisions relating to the collections of museums in France contained in Book IV of the Heritage Code (Law No. 2002-5 of 4 January 2002 and its application texts). It contributes to the exercise of scientific and technical control by the State, of which it constitutes the first level of expertise at the decentralized level.
It provides permanent advice, expertise and information to the various owner communities and the museums themselves. Finally, it provides scientific and administrative information on applications for financial assistance within its field of competence, as well as the coordination of the regional scientific commissions. It examines applications for the label 'exhibition of national interest".
Among its other missions, it promotes partnership with owner associations and public authorities. It encourages a policy of integrating French museums into the cultural policies of the territories (local authorities, countries, intercommunalities, etc.). It can participate in the recruitment juries for scientific managers of public collections and monitors the sustainability of these jobs.
In Occitania, these various missions of advice and expertise concern the museums spread over the regional territory, which cover all fields of knowledge: archaeology, fine arts, contemporary art, ethnology, industrial sites, natural history museums, etc.
However, grants can only be awarded to museums with the Musée de France designation.
In more detail, the main areas of focus for the Museums Service are:
The status of museums and collections
- instruction of applications for the name "musée de France". Download the sheet "Devenir musée de France",
- follow-up with curators and scientific leaders in the development of Scientific and cultural projects in advance of the request for the name" Musées de France" and any project to renovate or expand an existing museum.
- application of the texts relating to the realization of inventories and at decennial collection of public collections,
- control of the conditions of conservation of the collections (including the procedure for declaring a state of danger); assistance with computerization, digitisation (Mona Lisa Base) and the publication of the collections of French museums.
The enrichment of public collections
- monitoring and coherence of the regional policy for the acquisition of works and works of art for the benefit of museums in France,
- administrative and scientific appraisal of acquisition files within the framework of the regional scientific commissions (CSR),
- coordination of sessions of the Regional Acquisition Fund for Museums (Fram) jointly with the Regional Council,
- monitoring the decisions of this body and financial programming.
The regional scientific commissions for acquisitions and restorations meet four times a year in Toulouse and Montpellier, the regional acquisition fund for museums once.
Preventive conservation of collections and their restoration
- organization of regional scientific commissions, scientific monitoring and financial programming; verification of the qualification of restorers,
- coordination of files with the Centre for Research and Restoration of French Museums in Paris (C2RMF),
- organization of missions to assess the health status of the works,
- encouraging the implementation of preventive conservation campaigns for collections, multi-year restoration plans and safeguarding plans,
- definition and monitoring of a policy to bring the reserves of French museums up to standard
Creation, extension or renovation projects
- methodological, administrative and regulatory support for associations or local authorities that own museums in France, project leaders and project owners,
- scientific and administrative monitoring of projects alongside scientific managers,
- coordination of procedures with the relevant departments of the Service des musées de France,
- participation in the development of technical studies and the study of architectural and museographic programming,
- encouraging the implementation of the collections project,
- participation, at the request of the contracting authorities, in the recruitment competitions for programmers, architects and museographers, as well as in the coordination and technical monitoring bodies (scientific or steering committees, etc.),
- monitoring of construction sites in the field.
Public policy
Training of speakers, assistance in the creation and structuring of educational services according to the terms of the law on museums of France. As such, museums with educational services have the opportunity to submit grant applications to the Drac. For specific audiences, they have the possibility to submit grant applications as part of the calls for projects (Culture/Justice, Culture/Health...)
Museums have the possibility to apply for the label "tourism and disability"for the following four handicaps: mental, visual, motor, auditory.
Regional scientific commissions
The regional scientific commissions for acquisitions and restorations meet four times a year in Toulouse and Montpellier, once for the regional acquisition fund for museums.
Find all the information, calendar and documents on the page Schedule of commissions, forms, juries...
Contacts
Montpellier site
Noémie Aumasson
museum advisor
Tel. 04 67 02 32 60
noemie.aumasson[@]culture.gouv.fr
Sylvie Masson-Simao
assistant
Tel. 04 67 02 32 19
sylvie.masson[@]culture.gouv.fr
Toulouse site
Ariane Aujoulat
museum advisor
Tel. 05 67 73 20 32
ariane.aujoulat[@]culture.gouv.fr
Camille Malherbe
assistant
Tel. 05 67 73 20 86
camille.malherbe[@]culture.gouv.fr
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