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National Programmes 2019/20
It’s important that 2019/20
in numbers
people right across the
country are able to have 2,800+
objects loaned
a relationship with the to 105 venues
British Museum’s global
collection. Sharing 1,500+
long-term loans
objects, skills and ideas,
the Museum connected 10
with more than 10 million million+
people outside of London people had the
chance to see
in 2019/20, helping to British Museum
objects on loan,
level up opportunity compared to 6.2
million visitors to
throughout the UK. the Museum itself
9
specially
curated National
Programmes
touring exhibitions
Sharing
objects
‘The Museum is
committed to sharing
its collections as
widely as possible
and building positive
and sustainable
relationships with
a diverse network
of partners across
the UK.’
Desire, love, identity
Hartwig Fischer, Director, at Norfolk and Norwich
Millennium Library.
British Museum Photo by Hannah Hutchins.The British Museum has The three types of exhibition are: Pushing paper:
contemporary drawing
from 1970 to now at
three types of exhibitions
Oriental Museum.
Touring exhibitions © Matt Jaworski
Jointly curated touring exhibitions
for sharing objects. There Spotlight Loans
is no set menu – every
exhibition is collaborative,
tailored and unique.Touring exhibitions
Often co-curated and
incorporating objects from
partner museums, touring
exhibitions evolve as they
travel around the country
to tell regional as well as
global stories.
Desire, love, identity: This exhibition highlighted the
previously overlooked LGBTQ history
Launched at the British Museum
in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary
exploring LGBTQ histories
of the Museum’s collection and of the Sexual Offences Act, the touring
enabled museum partners in Oxford, exhibition saw each partner shaping
Nottingham, Bolton, Norwich and the story with their own objects.
Dorchester to do the same.
264,644 visitors U K-wideJointly curated
touring exhibitions
Working with museum
partners, we bring objects
together to tell stories in
ways not otherwise possible
at the British Museum.
Hoards: a hidden history The British Museum and Salisbury
Museum Partnership Exhibition
The exhibition looked at the varied and
changing explanations behind the burial
It showcased recent discoveries,
with objects including the spectacular
of ancient Britain
featured objects from both partners’ of hoards (precious objects including Ipswich Iron Age gold torcs.
collections. As well as Salisbury, it coins and jewellery placed in the
visited Ulster, Buxton, the Isle of Wight ground or underwater) and why they
and Peterborough. were sometimes never recovered.
147,944 visitors U K-wideSpotlight Loans
Smaller exhibitions,
sometimes consisting
of a single object. They
offer the chance to explore
objects in greater depth,
at a wider range of venues.
The golden age of satire? This tour followed on from the Citi
exhibition I object: Ian Hislop’s search
Featuring nine satirical prints from the
late Georgian period, it offered a unique
was curated with Have I Got News For
You panellist and Private Eye editor, Ian
Late-Georgian satirical prints
for dissent, which explored how people snapshot of the time. Travelling from Hislop. Hislop also gave sell-out talks
historically used objects to challenge Pontefract to Nottinghamshire and at every venue.
the status quo. Whitehaven in Cumbria, the display
46,819 visitors U K-wideDesire, love, identity at
Norfolk and Norwich
Millennium Library.
Photo by Hannah Hutchins.
‘ We are really thrilled
to be hosting this
exciting exhibition...
It’s also a testament to
our Millennium Library,
which will be the only
library to be hosting
the touring exhibition.’
Margaret Dewsbury,
Norfolk County CouncilSharing
skills
Connecting
colleagues, young
people and trainees
with opportunities
to gain and develop
new skills. Museum Futures trainees.
Photo by Josh Caius.Every loan between the This work is complemented by Portable Antiquities
Scheme, Young
skills development programmes: Archaeologists’ Club.
British Museum and Portable Antiquities Scheme
partner museums across Museum Futures
Knowledge Exchange
the UK allows us to share Visitor Services Knowledge Circle
knowledge and expertise.Portable Antiquities Scheme In numbers
The Portable Antiquities 1.5
Scheme (PAS) helps million+
to advance knowledge finds have been
recorded to date
and interest in the past
by recording and 81,602
sharing archaeological finds were
recorded
discoveries made by in 2019
members of the public.
119
national and
local partners
42
Finds Liaison
Officers across
England and WalesTraining in
the community
Since 2014, the PASt Explorers project
has organised training for community
volunteers to help the important work
of PAS.
In 2019/20, the project ran 22 training
sessions across the country for PAS
staff and volunteers. These sessions
covered topics from recording objects
to identifying Roman coins, with a
session delivered in partnership with
the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC),
training branch leaders in the work of
the PAS and how to use these skills for
YAC activities.
Excavations at
Gobowen, Shropshire.
Courtesy of Portable PASt Explorers is supported by
Antiquities Scheme. National Lottery Heritage FundMuseum Futures In numbers
Led by the British Museum, 140
this programme invests in a young people
attending
new generation of diverse taster days
museum professionals
through paid on-the-job 8
Cultural Heritage
training in digital skills. Diplomas earned
in 2019
9
Diplomas currently
in progress
658
credits earned by
trainees towards
Cultural Heritage
Diplomas
2019 partners 2020 partners
British Museum Birmingham Museums Trust
17
Garden Museum Bristol Culture
Museum of East Anglian Life British Museum
National Museums Liverpool Derby Museums
Norfolk Museums Service
Royal Pavilion and Museums
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Horniman Museum and Gardens paid trainee
South West Heritage Trust
York Museums Trust
Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
placements
Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums at museums
Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund
across the UKKnowledge Exchange In numbers
Since 2010, this scheme 100+
has supported week-long staff exchanges
at more than
professional exchanges 40 UK museums
since 2010
with arts and heritage
organisations across the UK. 11
In 2019, British Museum staff successful
professional
took part in exchanges with exchange
placements with
museum colleagues from five partners
Bath, Cambridge, Liverpool, delivered in 2019
Paisley and Tees Valley.
2019/20 partners
American Museum and Gardens, Bath
National Museums Liverpool
Paisley Museum, Scotland
Tees Valley Museums
University of Cambridge Museums
Supported by the Vivmar FoundationPaisley Museum
The Knowledge Exchange provided
a timely opportunity for collaboration
with Paisley Museum and Art
Galleries as they deliver a £42 million
redevelopment project, which has seen
most of their collection move into a new,
publicly accessible store.
Paisley Museum hosted Assistant
Collections Manager, Christy Yates,
who is working on transferring
objects to the British Museum’s new
store in Reading. As such, he was
very interested to learn from staff
at Paisley Museum about the move
and documentation work.
In return, the British Museum hosted
Paisley Museum’s Learning and Access
Co-ordinator, Catherine Harbon.
Catherine worked with our public
programming and education teams
and shadowed several learning
sessions for school groups.
Christy Yates (British
Museum) at Paisley
Museum as part of
the Knowledge
Exchange programme.Visitor Services In numbers
Knowledge Circle 8
In 2019, the British partner
organisations
Museum worked with
partner organisations to 15
develop and deliver a pilot placements
programme for front-of-
house staff. Participants 525+
hours of
had the chance to spend skills-sharing
a five-day, fully funded and
co-ordinated professional
exchange placement at one
of the eight organisations
taking part.
2019 partners
Black Country Living Museum
British Museum
Leeds Museums and Galleries
National Museums Northern Ireland
National Trust
Roman Baths
Salford Museum Service
Salisbury Museum
Supported by the Vivmar FoundationMuseum Futures trainees.
Photo by Josh Caius.
‘I can easily say this
has been the best year
of my life... I’ve spent
a year learning all
things digital from the
fountain of knowledge
that is my supervisor,
Kevin, and I’ve felt
so supported to make
the most of being
a trainee.’
Tasha Brown, Museum Futures
trainee (2019) based at Royal Pavilion
and Museums, Brighton and HoveSharing
ideas
Creating platforms
to share ideas
with individuals
and organisations
across the UK, the
British Museum is
continually inspired A self-led Samsung
by its partners.
Digital Discovery
Centre activity in the
Parthenon Gallery.The Museum supports a Programmes include: Youth Collective as
part of Greengross
Summer Programme.
culture of shared learning.
Photo by Alastair Fyfe.
Samsung Digital Discovery Centre
National Programmes Conference
We deliver programmes British Museum Young People’s Programme
Where we are…
for museum professionals,
young people and children
that encourage the
exchange of thoughts
and ideas.Samsung Digital In numbers
Discovery Centre 68
Delivering free, live, Virtual Visit
sessions in
interactive workshops online 2019/20
for children aged 7–11 in
classrooms across the UK. 1,974
school children
These Virtual Visits cover attended a Virtual
Visit in 2019/20
key areas of the history
curriculum in England and 800
Virtual Visit
related subjects in Scotland, sessions booked
Wales and Northern Ireland for 2020/21
(school year) so far
from prehistory to the Indus out of 889 available
Valley and Roman Britain.
Supported by SamsungEngaging schools
Through interactive activities, quizzes
and thought-provoking questions,
primary school students enhance
their knowledge and understanding
of the past.
In 2020, this programme expanded
in response to schools being unable
to physically visit the Museum,
increasing to 33 sessions per week
from November 2020, up from six per
week prior to March 2020.
Students taking
part in a Samsung
Digital Discovery
Centre workshop.National Programmes In numbers
Conference 2019 300+
The National Programmes attendees
team hosts a major annual 80+
conference at the British speakers and
contributors from
Museum for colleagues organisations
nationwide
in the UK museum and
cultural heritage sector. 40
different breakout
sessions, exploring
seven themes
Supported by the Vivmar Foundation2019 conference
Each year the conference addresses
key subjects and issues relating to the
cultural heritage sector. In 2019, the
conference explored how museums are
engaging with issues of representation,
authority and power, with particular
focus on disability, class, gender, race
and sexuality. The conference covered
a wide range of museum practice with
workshops, tours, presentations and
talks from Hartwig Fischer and Bonnie
Greer OBE.
Delegates at the
National Programmes
Conference 2019.
Photo by Josh Caius.British Museum Young In numbers
People’s Programme 70
This programme is young people
attended the 2019
committed to inspiring Summer School
change in the Museum by
connecting with a diverse 15
young people
range of young people formed the first
British Museum
both on-site and virtually. Youth Collective
Launched in 2019, the
programme delivers events 90%
of the 2020 Youth
and training for 16–24 Collective reported
year olds, co-designed having an increased
awareness of the
by the British Museum’s personal, social
and cultural issues
Youth Collective. explored in their
digital events
Supported by the Greengross familyWhere we are...
The programme seeks to work
with young people who are
underrepresented in museums
This UK-wide programme
and under-served by the arts and
culture sector.
This includes, but is not limited
for young people aged to, young people who identify
as: LGBTQ+, from a working
class background, disabled or
16–24 supports them to
neurodivergent, having a migrant or
refugee experience, from the African
diaspora or South, East and South East
work in partnership with
Asian diaspora or ethnically diverse.
Each project will be unique, responding
to a local need identified by the young
the British Museum, a local
people. Project outcomes can take any
form and may include films, exhibitions
and events.
cultural organisation and a Through 15 cultural projects over the
course of the five year programme,
youth charity to co-produce
Where we are... will reach 150 young
people and 60 key partner
organisations across the UK.
projects that are meaningful
and relevant to them in
their community.
Supported by the Paul Hamlyn FoundationDelegates at the
National Programmes
Conference 2019.
Photo by Josh Caius.
‘One of the best
conferences I have
attended in a long
time. It’s so rare
that all the sessions
are so relevant and
interesting, and it
proved to be great
for networking too.’
Conference speakerTouring Museum Partnership
14
John O’ Groats
exhibitions Futures Galleries
Lerwick
36 Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
Desire, love, identity: 24 Birmingham Museums Trust 49 Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
exploring LGBTQ histories 25 Bristol Culture 50 Royal Cornwall Museum
1 Ashmolean Museum
26 Derby Museums 16 Great North Museum Inverness
2 National Justice Museum
27 Garden Museum 51 Yorkshire Museum
3 Bolton Library and
28 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery 24 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Kirkwell
Museums Services 29 Horniman Museum and Gardens
4 Norfolk and Norwich
30 Irish Linen Centre and Aberdeen
Millennium Library
5 Shire Hall Courthouse and Museum
31
Lisburn Museum
Museum of East Anglian Life
Portable John O’ Groats
Hoards: a hidden history
32 National Museums Liverpool Antiquities Scheme Dundee
of ancient Britain
33 Norfolk Museums Service
6 Salisbury Museum 34 Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums
35 South West Heritage Trust 52 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
7 Ulster Museum, NMNI
36 Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery 53 Berkshire
8 Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
49
37 Tyne and Wear Archives 54 Buckinghamshire Edinburgh
9 Brading Roman Villa
40
and Museums 55 Cambridgeshire Glasgow
10 Peterborough Museum and
Art Gallery 38 York Museums Trust 56 Cheshire, Greater
13
Manchester and Merseyside
Viking: rediscover the legend 57 Cornwall
Newcastle
11 Norwich Castle Museum
Knowledge 58
59
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Devon and Somerset 36 16 37 83
Nordic by nature: Exchange 60 Dorset
Belfast Carlisle
modern design and prints 61 Gloucestershire and Avon 82 21
12 Weston Park Museum 39 American Museum and Gardens 62 Hampshire 45 7
19 15
41
13 Old Gala House 32 National Museums Liverpool 63 Herefordshire and Shropshire 30
14 Thurso Art Gallery 40 Paisley Museum 64 Isle of Wight
15 Kirkleatham Museum 41 Tees Valley Museums 65 Jersey
72 51 38
42 University of Cambridge Museums 66 Kent
Ancient Iraq: new discoveries 77
67 Lancashire and Cumbria
16 Great North Museum 67
44 Hull
68 Leicestershire and Rutland 17 74
The golden age of satire? Visitor Services 69 Lincolnshire
56 32
Liverpool
3 48 23
Manchester
12
Sheffield
London
Knowledge Circle
70
Late-Georgian satirical prints 69
17 Pontefract Museum
71 Norfolk 8 18
85
18 Newstead Abbey
72 North and East Yorkshire 26 58
2
43 Black Country Living Museum 73 Northamptonshire 17
19 Beacon Museum Norwich
44 Leeds Museums and Galleries Peterborough
74 Northern Lincolnshire Birmingham 68
4 11 71 33
The Kiyoharu Dragon 45 National Museums Northern Ireland 75 Oxfordshire 10
43
24 78
20 Treorchy Library 46 National Trust 76 Somerset 63
79
47 Roman Baths 77 South and West Yorkshire 86 73 55 31
Pushing paper: contemporary 48 Salford Museum Service 78 Staffordshire and West Midlands
42
drawing from 1970 to now 6 Salisbury Museum 79 Suffolk Oxford
21 Oriental Museum 22 20 75 54 52
80 Surrey and Hampshire Cardiff 1 London
22 Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
81 Sussex Swansea 61 70 29 27
84 46
82 County Durham, Darlington, 47 39 53
80
A Ming Emperor’s seat 25
66
and Teesside Canterbury
23 Manchester Museum
83 Newcastle and Northumberland 35 76 6 87 62
Isle of Wight 34 28
84 South Wales Southampton 81
60
85 North Wales 59 5
64 9 Brighton
0 Partners involved in more than one 86 Warwickshire and Worcestershire
Guernsey Truro Isle of Wight
programme are shown above with 87 Wiltshire
Jersey Plymouth
a white outline. 50
65 57Acknowledgements The British Museum is grateful to the Dorset Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe for its lead support of our national work and this publication. The Museum wishes to thank the following for their support: Art Fund Arts Council England Baring Foundation Bridget Riley Art Foundation Clore Duffield Foundation Graham and Joanna Barker The Greengross family The Headley Trust Leverhulme Trust The National Lottery Heritage Fund Paul Hamlyn Foundation Samsung Vivmar Foundation Contact Learning and National Partnerships The British Museum Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG ukpartnerships@britishmuseum.org +44 (0)20 7323 8696 britishmuseum.org
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