The Art Fund has launched a two-year programme to support the display and interpretation of items of Treasure and other archaeological material. Treasure Plus will award £75,000 this year and the same again in 2014.
The first deadline for applications is 7 August. Museums, galleries and historic houses are among the organisations that can apply for grants of between £2,000 and £10,000.
To be eligible, institutions have to be provisionally or fully accredited under the Arts Council England Accreditation Scheme, which is managed in partnership with Museums Galleries Scotland; Cymal: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales; and the Northern Ireland Museums Council.
The Treasure Plus programme is jointly funded by the Art Fund and the Headley Trust, which helps organisations buy items of Treasure through its Museums Archaeological Acquisition Fund.
The Art Fund’s head of programmes, Sarah Philp, said the success of the 1997 Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme had led to a huge rise in the number of applications to acquire items of Treasure and related archaeological material. But she added that such objects were often challenging and expensive to conserve and display.
The Art Fund has been running a series of roadshows to provide museums with more information about Treasure Plus. The next one will be at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery on 4 July.
The Art Fund is looking for more venues, including in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, at which to run similar events in 2014.
www.artfund.org/
The first deadline for applications is 7 August. Museums, galleries and historic houses are among the organisations that can apply for grants of between £2,000 and £10,000.
To be eligible, institutions have to be provisionally or fully accredited under the Arts Council England Accreditation Scheme, which is managed in partnership with Museums Galleries Scotland; Cymal: Museums, Archives and Libraries Wales; and the Northern Ireland Museums Council.
The Treasure Plus programme is jointly funded by the Art Fund and the Headley Trust, which helps organisations buy items of Treasure through its Museums Archaeological Acquisition Fund.
The Art Fund’s head of programmes, Sarah Philp, said the success of the 1997 Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme had led to a huge rise in the number of applications to acquire items of Treasure and related archaeological material. But she added that such objects were often challenging and expensive to conserve and display.
The Art Fund has been running a series of roadshows to provide museums with more information about Treasure Plus. The next one will be at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery on 4 July.
The Art Fund is looking for more venues, including in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, at which to run similar events in 2014.
www.artfund.org/
