Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Selby it Lias Teeth 10 Winnipeg free August groups Hope heritage study leads to action by Ingeborg Boyens Manitoba museum and heritage groups Are keeping their fingers crossed that the recommendations of a government advisory group Wilt be acted heritage spokesmen contacted yesterday said it was about time the provincial government provided increased funding to their the released last said the province should increase its donations to heritage organizations by 10 per cent each Over and above for the next three the heritage working group found that Manitoba stands eighth among the provinces in per capita funding and in actual Money the report also called on the province to establish a heritage similar to the Manitoba arts that would disperse funds and oversee the operations of museums in the the Manitoba museum of Man and the Winni Peg Art the Provin Cial archives and about 120 Small Community museums would be governed by the Joann executive director of heritage said she would be delighted if spending were i thought we were 10th on the she referring to Manitoba position in the spending Ernie executive director of the Manitoba arts said experience with the cultural Council has shown that the concept of a separate funding body the companies themselves tended to feel that they wanted support from arms length that was free of a political Stegant he said cultural organizations have Long urged that tax dollars rather than lottery funds be used to finance their Stegant said cultural and heritage organizations should not be subject to the vagaries of a Roger director of the Winnipeg Art gallery and a member of the working said the proposed com Mission would have More responsibility than the Manitoba arts a commission has Teeth and would set standards and evaluate the operations of various heritage he Selby said the Art gallery was appropriately included in the list of organizations to be governed by the proposed heritage the findings of the cultural policy review commission last year recommended the gallery be funded by the Manitoba arts we Are a museum like All of the other said we just happen to feature Selby said the proposed heritage commission would Aid Small Community museums by offering them Finan Cial design advice and display now if they ask we Are Happy to do what we but if it is More it will be a part of our re said Eugene a director of the mennonite Village museum in said every Community museum could use More Money Derkson said it is impossible for a museum to keep its budgets balanced by counting on admission but he said he didst think heritage organizations should expect too much from i dont know How much Money a government has he Don Secretary treasurer for the Gimli icelandic said his museum also survive on admission any increased funding would be used to preserve an important cultural he Tom administrative director of the Manitoba museum of Man and said the museum received a Grant from the province in but along with other the museum has been feeling the Pinch of inflation and rising and expansion plans have been put on he Nickle said the establish ment of a heritage commis Sion would Likely mean Bud get submissions could receive More and there would be improved co ordination Between various organizations in the prov the commission could be a disadvantage in that there would be another level of bureaucracy be tween the museum and the he provincial archivist John Bower said he agreed that a thorough study of the archives in Manitoba should be he said he understand Why the report suggested the records of the provincial government should be maintained in holdings separate from the Manitoba i dont think the archives is separable in that he we really see Public and private records As a Rosemary executive director of the Manitoba historical said she had not had a Chance to review the but she did agree that the province has not adequately funded museum 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