The Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) has announced details of a £3.2m initiative to help museums and galleries put community engagement at the heart of their work.
The PHF has chosen seven organisations to be Active Partners in Our Museum: Communities and Museums and two further applications are being considered. The four-year project will give each participant up to £150,000 as well as training, facilitation and peer review.
The seven organisations are: Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives; Hackney Museum, London; The Lightbox, Woking; Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket; Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales; Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire; and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
“This initiative will support participating institutions to become truly rooted in their communities and to understand local needs, giving communities real agency in museum policies and programmes,” said Kate Brindley, chairwoman of the Our Museum steering group and director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
The initiative is the culmination of a research process that began in 2008. The results were reported in Whose Cake Is It Anyway?, by Bernadette Lynch.
In other funding news, Arts Council England has published guidance for the £3m Renaissance museum development funding programme.
The fund is open for online applications from 7 February until 7 March. Decisions will be made by the end of April in time for new arrangements to be in place for 1 August.
No pain no gain: comment by Pietr Bienkowski
The PHF has chosen seven organisations to be Active Partners in Our Museum: Communities and Museums and two further applications are being considered. The four-year project will give each participant up to £150,000 as well as training, facilitation and peer review.
The seven organisations are: Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives; Hackney Museum, London; The Lightbox, Woking; Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket; Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales; Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire; and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
“This initiative will support participating institutions to become truly rooted in their communities and to understand local needs, giving communities real agency in museum policies and programmes,” said Kate Brindley, chairwoman of the Our Museum steering group and director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
The initiative is the culmination of a research process that began in 2008. The results were reported in Whose Cake Is It Anyway?, by Bernadette Lynch.
In other funding news, Arts Council England has published guidance for the £3m Renaissance museum development funding programme.
The fund is open for online applications from 7 February until 7 March. Decisions will be made by the end of April in time for new arrangements to be in place for 1 August.
No pain no gain: comment by Pietr Bienkowski
