The Museums Association (MA) is staking £100,000 to encourage museums to think of innovative ways to use their collections through loans or transfers.
Part of Effective Collections, which launches this month, the Special Project Fund is open to any accredited museum, or partnership of organisations that includes an accredited museum. Approved projects will receive up to £25,000 each, and this amount can be added to funding from other sources, towards a bigger project. The deadline for the first round of funding is 7 September, with three more to follow at six-monthly intervals.
Sally Cross, the MA's collections coordinator, said: "The Special Project Fund is for cutting-edge innovation in the use of collections. It is for projects that are bigger, bolder and more experimental in their approach.
"We are prepared for them to go wrong, but hope they will be exemplars of the possibilities of connecting collections to audiences."
A fund of up to £10,000 per project will also be available for museums to review and make better use of their collections.
Part of Effective Collections, which launches this month, the Special Project Fund is open to any accredited museum, or partnership of organisations that includes an accredited museum. Approved projects will receive up to £25,000 each, and this amount can be added to funding from other sources, towards a bigger project. The deadline for the first round of funding is 7 September, with three more to follow at six-monthly intervals.
Sally Cross, the MA's collections coordinator, said: "The Special Project Fund is for cutting-edge innovation in the use of collections. It is for projects that are bigger, bolder and more experimental in their approach.
"We are prepared for them to go wrong, but hope they will be exemplars of the possibilities of connecting collections to audiences."
A fund of up to £10,000 per project will also be available for museums to review and make better use of their collections.
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