The Staffordshire Hoard was valued at £3.3 million and the Art Fund led the campaign to raise the funds needed to buy it for the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. This is a wonderful example of a successful emergency appeal. This campaign really captured the imagination of the public and … Read more
The Thorney Society, a community charity in the village of Thorney just outside Peterborough, has run the independent Thorney Museum since 1987. Housed in a converted Victorian building, it is open to the public during the Summer. In 2013, the Thorney Society approached the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) East of England for funding to develop resources for people … Read more
Discover the Google Cultural Institute, and how cultural organisations are partnering with Google to create online exhibitions. This transcript of a keynote presentation also looks at what online exhibitions could mean for audiences and arts organisations in the future.
A transcript of a discussion about the Google Cultural Institute, focusing on creating online exhibits and editorial around them. The panel also considers whether virtual exhibits deter visitors from attending museums in person.
Discover how a group of cultural organisations across Manchester created a collaborative digital archive, and used it to tell stories about the city’s experiences of the First World War through an app and website. Led by Imperial War Museum North, 26 galleries, libraries, archives and museums combined their collections and archives into one cohesive digital … Read more
After participating in an international ‘ask a curator’ Twitter event, with only a so/so response, the museum realised that a more dedicated and strategic approach to social media activity was needed. The launch of #музейнаягостиная (#museumsalon) has since been hugely successful and in this case study Anna shares what they’ve learned so far.
This article was first published on Research Access. It discusses how the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is using the findings of a deep research exercise to move away from trying to ‘be all things to all people’. The article makes reference to a presentation made by the Van Gogh Museum and TNS NIPO at … Read more
Kate Feld spoke with Suzanne Stein, Head of Community Engagement at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in California about Open Space – the museum’s innovative and wildly successful blog. The blog provides a place where the local community and the SFMOMA community can be visible and in dialogue with each other. This case study … Read more
Children were put in charge of museums, galleries and heritage sites across the UK for a whole day in 2011. This report looks at how these cultural institutions attracted young people to take part, and what the participants – both children and museums – got out of it. It features six case studies, including Tyne … Read more
Following the success of the 2011 event, children were again put in charge of museums, galleries and heritage sites across the UK for a whole day in 2012. This report looks at how these cultural institutions attracted young people to take part, and what the participants – both children and museums – got out of … Read more