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Director’s Christmas Message 2021

6 December 2021 by Andrea Ruddock Leave a Comment

Missions, meeting points, and curious connections

I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe that we are finding ourselves in December already – where did the year go?!

The challenges posed by Covid-19 continued, of course, but so did the opportunities and the thrill of excitement offered by trialling innovative approaches across all our activities.

On a mission

The year got off to an exciting start with the launch of our new Vision and Mission, a crucial part of Vision 2024, the transformative strategy for our centenary.

The work with our architects Purcell continued apace, with the hugely satisfying achievement of reaching a major milestone in the development of our capital project in late summer. We are very actively seeking funding for the next stages of the development and I am looking forward to sharing progress in future Newsletters.

Multaka: a new meeting point

Talking about funding, we were thrilled to announce the successful collaboration with Alwaleed Philanthropies on the continuation of the multi-award winning Multaka-Oxford project that we are jointly running with the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Of all the projects I have been involved with in my career, Multaka undoubtledly ranks amongst those that I am most proud of, and I can’t wait for this new phase to start.

2021 Highlights

And so much else happened for which there is far too little space here (no surprise the months flew by!):

  • the display of Luke Jerram’s stunning glass sculpture of a nanoparticle of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
     
  • the generous support from the E P A Cephalosporin Fund for our Collecting Covid project that we are running jointly with the Bodleian Libraries which enabled us to engage with our audiences in new and exciting ways
     
  • our recently launched Collections Online database

are just three examples.

Curiosity Calendar

A propos Collections Online, I can’t imagine a more fun way to explore this project than our Curiosity Calendar – one door each day all the way to Christmas and no increase in waistline, promise ☺!


None of this would have been possible without our fantastic audiences, our wonderful supporters – and the incredible team that I have the privilege to lead.

THANK YOU!

With best wishes for a peaceful and relaxing festive season and a happy and healthy 2022,

Silke

Dr Silke Ackermann FSA
Director

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