{"id":37071,"date":"2023-07-25T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37071"},"modified":"2023-07-24T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T16:48:58","slug":"ahrc-1m-invested-in-research-on-uk-museum-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37071","title":{"rendered":"AHRC: \u00a31m invested in research on UK museum closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=54013611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37072\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Pollocks_Toy_Museum_27801811225_CC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>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.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: By Dun.can from Melton Mowbray, UK &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=54013611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pollock&#8217;s Toy Museum<\/a>, CC BY 2.0,\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Museums and Heritage Advisor<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>A research project collecting data on the closures of UK museums has been awarded \u00a31m from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to continue its work.<\/p>\n<p>The Mapping Museum research project was first devised in response to the absence of coherent data on the expansion of museums in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It subsequently collected and collated data from over 4,000 museums to analyse how the sector changed between 1960 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Mapping Museums research team will use the new funding for its next project, \u2018Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The research project is based at Birkbeck, University of London and at King\u2019s College London, and will run for two years, beginning in October 2023\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As with its previous research, the resulting data will be mapped, analysed and visualised\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advisor.museumsandheritage.com\/news\/1m-invested-in-research-on-uk-museum-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; Pollock&#8217;s Toy Museum, CC BY 2.0,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37073,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37071\/revisions\/37073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}