Impact by Area
To view the museums across the Region and to view some of the work they have been undertaking with Renaissance East Midlands over the past 2 years please click on the PDFs below. We have devided the region up by its local areasand then into constituancies .
Derbyshire
Museums in Central and South Derbyshire (609 KB)
Museums in West Derbyshire (850 KB)
Museums in North Derbyshire (718 KB)
Museums in Derby City (650 KB)
Lincolnshire
Museums in South East Lincolnshire (820 KB)
Museums in Central Lincolnshire (901 KB)
Museums in Lincolnshire North (1 MB)
Nottinghamshire
Museums in East Nottinghamshire (882 KB)
Museums in Nottingham City (635 KB)
Museums in North Nottinghamshire (792 KB)
Leicestershire and Rutland
Museums in South and Central Leicestershire (1.09 MB)
Museums in Leicester City (943 KB)
Museums in North Leicestershire and Rutland (886 KB)
Northamptonshire
Museums in South Northamptonshire (833 KB)
Museums in Northampton and North Northamptonshire (847 KB)
The 2008-9 programme had a positive impact on museums of all types and sizes with nearly all museums in this region benefitting from Renaissance in some way, for example:
Collections access support was provided to 48 non-partner museums enabling audiences to have access to 6458 objects, which were previously in store. Collections priorities were established with the development and dissemination of a 10-year collections strategy for the region.
Learning and outreach staff supported activity which resulted in a 19% increase in contact between school-aged children and museums, the development of 80 new museum-based teaching and learning loans resources and engagement with 74 previously non-participating schools.
Museums Development Officers worked with museums across the region, supporting them to achieve accreditation, develop policies and forward plans and deliver the Regional Grant Fund. This made 25 awards during the year focused on enabling museums to develop their sustainability and lever additional support.
The Museumaker programme was developed achieving £895,000 of partnership funding to roll out the project nationally to engage 16 museums in site specific commissions, workforce development and specialist consultancies during 2009-11.
Support for museums in digitisation was provided through a digital skills development programme and the production of guidelines; ‘A Simple Guide to Digitisation’ and ‘Preservation and Sustainability for Digital Assets in Museums’. A report called ‘Virtually There’ provided evidence of the motivations, expectations, and needs of our online audiences. The Digitisation Development Fund supported 15 projects ranging from hardware purchases to the development of a community website.
A range of innovative learning opportunities was developed using new technologies and online services such as www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk which now has nearly 13,000 visitors a month.
Workforce Development delivered 113 training events to 488 participants, with 72% reporting an increase of knowledge.
Community Engagement developed ‘Understanding your Audiences’, where museums, heritage sites and arts organisations worked together in cluster groups to develop effective plans to attract more and different people to visit. This resulted in innovative and creative projects to engage wider audiences, produced the best practice guide ‘Words & Things’, which is being used as an educational resource across the region and led to the University Partnership Placement initiative where 12 undergraduate students were matched to museums in order to deliver defined pieces of work.
A full plan for museum activity in the East Midlands for the years 2008-12 as part of the Cultural Olympiad was established. The One8 young people’s festival formed part of the Cultural Olympiad’s open weekend and attracted 4,300 young people and their families from across the region. The European Directorate subsequently sited One8 as a model of best practice.
Projects such as Green Museums and Survive and Thrive were focused on enabling museums to become more sustainable, both economically and environmentally.
Our Corby
Corby will be growing to accommodate another 16,000 homes in the next 12 years, adding further to its history of absorption and mixing of cultures. This project will explore migration and identity through creative use of historic material. The historic material will be used to inspire the community’s memories and responses to change. To find out more please view the Our Corby page.
Flagship Programme 2009-11
The Flagship programme is a new development for 2009-11 and will target support to museums that demonstrate they have the potential and aspiration to improve performance in one of three areas
- visitor attractions
- learning providers
- volunteer providers
Participating museums will become champions in their area of expertise and will share best practice ensuring impact across the whole museum community. Participating museums can be found on the Flagship Programme page
Ancestral and Literary Tourism
This project delivers the next phase of the Ancestral Tourism development project. Three ancestral tourism networks will be established – in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire and will act as a catalyst for collaborative action at a local level, bringing together partners from archives, museums, libraries, family history societies, tourism businesses and tourism agencies. For more information on this project please view the Ancestral and Literary Tourism page.