Huh! I wasn't expecting content from the Mary Anning conference to be uploaded to RUclips. What a brilliant talk, really brings home the issues that prevent many amazing fossils from being exhibited and properly studied.
Hi, Christian, we have no current plans to post the content online for FREE at this point in time. This is just a sample to show people what they missed out on and hopefully, we can increase our audience in the future, for live events. The owner of this video wanted the content of this talk to be made public, so people were aware. The Etches Collection is only providing a platform for free thought and debate on the subject.
Brilliant talk. In my opinion, placing any fossil museum project in the hands of the Jurassic Coast Trust is the death knell. The JCT Trust is an independent charity, responsible for maintaining the Jurassic Coast’s World Heritage Site status. In practice that doesn’t necessarily translate into an organisation that can implement, steer or deliver a world-class fossil museum. The JCT is a well-meaning organisation of a few individuals, who have expertise in writing broad mission statements and use words and phrases such as ‘partnerships’, ‘engagement with stakeholders’, or ‘encompasses sustainable tourism principles’ at every opportunity. However, the bottom line is that the Jurassic Coast Trust is a charity itself which, in these uncertain economic times, is often fighting for its own survival and reliant on a myriad of funding streams. So, with regard to the proposed Jurassic Coast Museum, the elephants in the room remains the finances that the Jurassic Coast Trust just don’t have and moreover, the necessary credibility or vision for such a project and chances are that it would waste even more money in the process..
There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with museums these days. I know you can argue funding is often tight but when they get a pot of money from somewhere instead of using it to acquire breathtakingly special fossils they seem obsessed with giving the money to some software development team to come up with a touch screen system that they think will stimulate primary school children to tun around pressing buttons and watching cartoon dinosaurs with the emphasis more on fun than education. By the way that was a very well put together. At least you have succeeded in opening my eyes to the big picture.
The amateur collector is a love hate relationship to the professional paleontologist. They bring in new discoveries and help finance new research while others exploit fossils for resale and profit. Its just human nature, there good and bad on both sides. At least in the UK they have reasonable discovery laws.
The laws in spain are horrible. You cant find anything but they can destroy thousand of fossils in a mine. The spanish laws are made for the culture destruction
Fantastic insight and it seems to unfortunately be the case. Sadly there seems to be a lot of money getting poured down but its the councils and ( crap people who are just milking the money for their own gain) They know who the are and should be ashamed but all they see is money. I think a lot of new material found will never be documented because of this situation that we are in. Shameful to be honest.
Huh! I wasn't expecting content from the Mary Anning conference to be uploaded to RUclips. What a brilliant talk, really brings home the issues that prevent many amazing fossils from being exhibited and properly studied.
Hi, Christian, we have no current plans to post the content online for FREE at this point in time. This is just a sample to show people what they missed out on and hopefully, we can increase our audience in the future, for live events.
The owner of this video wanted the content of this talk to be made public, so people were aware. The Etches Collection is only providing a platform for free thought and debate on the subject.
Brilliant talk. In my opinion, placing any fossil museum project in the hands of the Jurassic Coast Trust is the death knell. The JCT Trust is an independent charity, responsible for maintaining the Jurassic Coast’s World Heritage Site status. In practice that doesn’t necessarily translate into an organisation that can implement, steer or deliver a world-class fossil museum. The JCT is a well-meaning organisation of a few individuals, who have expertise in writing broad mission statements and use words and phrases such as ‘partnerships’, ‘engagement with stakeholders’, or ‘encompasses sustainable tourism principles’ at every opportunity. However, the bottom line is that the Jurassic Coast Trust is a charity itself which, in these uncertain economic times, is often fighting for its own survival and reliant on a myriad of funding streams.
So, with regard to the proposed Jurassic Coast Museum, the elephants in the room remains the finances that the Jurassic Coast Trust just don’t have and moreover, the necessary credibility or vision for such a project and chances are that it would waste even more money in the process..
There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with museums these days. I know you can argue funding is often tight but when they get a pot of money from somewhere instead of using it to acquire breathtakingly special fossils they seem obsessed with giving the money to some software development team to come up with a touch screen system that they think will stimulate primary school children to tun around pressing buttons and watching cartoon dinosaurs with the emphasis more on fun than education. By the way that was a very well put together. At least you have succeeded in opening my eyes to the big picture.
Interesting point of view, I've seen this attitude from museums I've worked with.
The amateur collector is a love hate relationship to the professional paleontologist. They bring in new discoveries and help finance new research while others exploit fossils for resale and profit. Its just human nature, there good and bad on both sides. At least in the UK they have reasonable discovery laws.
The laws in spain are horrible. You cant find anything but they can destroy thousand of fossils in a mine. The spanish laws are made for the culture destruction
Fantastic insight and it seems to unfortunately be the case. Sadly there seems to be a lot of money getting poured down but its the councils and ( crap people who are just milking the money for their own gain) They know who the are and should be ashamed but all they see is money. I think a lot of new material found will never be documented because of this situation that we are in. Shameful to be honest.
Dito!