The Welsh Assembly Government has unveiled its first strategy for museums in Wales.
Ministers have agreed that through CyMAL, the Welsh equivalent of the MLA, they will work on four priorities for the development of Wales X museums from 2010 to 2013.

These are: Developing the Visitor Experience, Developing access Developing the collections and Developing sustainable organisations. CyMAL will produce a detailed action plan to cover these areas and align any grant funding available to meet these priorities.

The strategy document which is out for consultation until October 23, identifies a number of goals over the three year period of the strategy including the launch of the online People’s Collection in 2010, encouraging all museums to develop learning strategies, improve accessibility, introduce a new scheme for sharing collections and improve the management and governance of museums, including a new emphasis on workforce development.

The strategy also suggests that museums need to study demographic profiles and understand their communities better and could help raise Wales international profile through loans, exhibitions and the sharing of skills and experience
Welsh Heritage Minister, Alun Ffred Jones, launching the strategy at the opening of an exhibition at Abergavenny Museum, said “It builds on a great deal of important research we have carried out with the museums sector and identifies a clear way forward to improve access to our wonderful museum collections”