Art Fund to research museum collecting habits
The Art Fund is to undertake a comprehensive survey of museum collecting over the last five years. The research will look at acquisitions since 2005 and will focus on what was collected, the most significant objects saved, what was missed out on and sources of funding. It will also look at the issues surrounding collecting in UK museums, and other challenges they face. Curators and managerial staff of museums and galleries will be invited to complete an online questionnaire between 8 February-5 March, which will be followed up with a number of one-to-one interviews. The overall results will be published in the spring, but individual responses will remain anonymous.
The research will update the Art Fund’s 2006 research The Collecting Challenge, which looked at collecting activity across UK museums and galleries between 2000 and 2005. For further details, please contact Sally Wrampling, Head of Policy and Research, on 020 7225 4837 or swrampling@artfund.org