Capital from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) will allow the Mapping Museum research team to map UK-wide closures and collection dispersal until 2025.
image: By Dun.can from Melton Mowbray, UK – Pollock’s Toy Museum, CC BY 2.0,
Museums and Heritage Advisor writes:
A research project collecting data on the closures of UK museums has been awarded £1m from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to continue its work.
The Mapping Museum research project was first devised in response to the absence of coherent data on the expansion of museums in the UK.
It subsequently collected and collated data from over 4,000 museums to analyse how the sector changed between 1960 and 2020.
The Mapping Museums research team will use the new funding for its next project, ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’.
The research project is based at Birkbeck, University of London and at King’s College London, and will run for two years, beginning in October 2023…
As with its previous research, the resulting data will be mapped, analysed and visualised…
