Category: Visitors

  • Museums and their communities: Why partnerships matter

    Museums and their communities: Why partnerships matter

    At a time when funding pressures and changing visitor patterns are dominating conversations in the sector, museums that make meaningful, reciprocal relationships with local community groups are showing both resilience and added value. Recent sector reporting shows that museums with active community programmes are not only retaining public relevance but…

  • Collaboration for survival: How museums can compete (together) for attention and visitors

    Collaboration for survival: How museums can compete (together) for attention and visitors

    Across the UK, museums are facing increasingly testing times. Financial pressures are more acute, audiences are changing their habits and local authorities that once underpinned cultural services are withdrawing support. A recent survey by the Museums Association found that three-in-five small museums fear closure because of declining revenue. For many…