Collections Trust CEO Nick Poole identifies 10 lessons from High Speed Rail that the museum sector can apply to its own political strategy.
Everyone working in museums will be aware that the clock is ticking for us to put together a coherent political strategy in time for the Party Conferences in September and October 2014. Against a backdrop of spending cuts in Local Authorities, our sector desperately needs coherent, structured investment both to secure what we have and to keep doing the job we've committed to doing - which is to collect, protect, interpret and provide access to our shared heritage for the benefit of the public.
So what does a coherent strategy look like? What do we need to put in place by September this year to make it politically palatable, even attractive, to reinvest in the UK's museums? This was the question I posed in my last post on #museumfunding, "We don't need a debate, what we need is a plan", and I was prompted to return to it by today's 'No Boundaries' conference, organised by the Arts Council.
The last large-scale investment in English museums was Renaissance in the Regions, a museum development programme funded under the last Government which invested some £300m in our regional museum infrastructure. Renaissance was funded because it was timely, politically expedient and backed by a unified sector that was willing to abandon partisanship in the name of maximising the benefit to all museums, irrespective of size or governance...Keep reading on Collections Link
Everyone working in museums will be aware that the clock is ticking for us to put together a coherent political strategy in time for the Party Conferences in September and October 2014. Against a backdrop of spending cuts in Local Authorities, our sector desperately needs coherent, structured investment both to secure what we have and to keep doing the job we've committed to doing - which is to collect, protect, interpret and provide access to our shared heritage for the benefit of the public.
So what does a coherent strategy look like? What do we need to put in place by September this year to make it politically palatable, even attractive, to reinvest in the UK's museums? This was the question I posed in my last post on #museumfunding, "We don't need a debate, what we need is a plan", and I was prompted to return to it by today's 'No Boundaries' conference, organised by the Arts Council.
The last large-scale investment in English museums was Renaissance in the Regions, a museum development programme funded under the last Government which invested some £300m in our regional museum infrastructure. Renaissance was funded because it was timely, politically expedient and backed by a unified sector that was willing to abandon partisanship in the name of maximising the benefit to all museums, irrespective of size or governance...Keep reading on Collections Link