The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) says it is confident that Renaissance will survive October’s spending review. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced in July that the MLA would be wound down by 2012, but has yet to reveal what will happen to functions such as Renaissance.
Options include a body such as the arts council or English Heritage taking over all or part of the MLA’s work, but any decision is likely to be made after the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review on 20 October.
An MLA spokesman said: “The indications that we are getting are that Renaissance has political support from the DCMS and its ministers, and will survive the review, but we need to step up our advocacy to ensure this happens.”
But if Renaissance survives, its funding is likely to be cut, as well as money earmarked for whichever organisation takes over the MLA’s functions.
The Museum Development Fund, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Museums at Night, and the accreditation and designation schemes are heavily funded through Renaissance. Other MLA functions, such as strategic commissioning, are funded from the MLA’s core grant, as are the administration costs of the government’s indemnity scheme.
“We continue to advocate that the functions of the MLA are essential and beneficial to museums and the public, and that they should be inherited by a model where they can survive and develop in the most coherent way possible,” said the MLA spokesman.
Image: MLA chief executive Roy Clare, whose tenure will end in 2012
Options include a body such as the arts council or English Heritage taking over all or part of the MLA’s work, but any decision is likely to be made after the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review on 20 October.
An MLA spokesman said: “The indications that we are getting are that Renaissance has political support from the DCMS and its ministers, and will survive the review, but we need to step up our advocacy to ensure this happens.”
But if Renaissance survives, its funding is likely to be cut, as well as money earmarked for whichever organisation takes over the MLA’s functions.
The Museum Development Fund, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Museums at Night, and the accreditation and designation schemes are heavily funded through Renaissance. Other MLA functions, such as strategic commissioning, are funded from the MLA’s core grant, as are the administration costs of the government’s indemnity scheme.
“We continue to advocate that the functions of the MLA are essential and beneficial to museums and the public, and that they should be inherited by a model where they can survive and develop in the most coherent way possible,” said the MLA spokesman.
Image: MLA chief executive Roy Clare, whose tenure will end in 2012