Our aim is that by putting collections at the heart of everything we do, every aspect of museums' work with every community will be rooted in meaningful engagement with collections that are well documented, clearly understood, sustainable and accessible.
Since 2002, Renaissance East Midlands has prioritised making the region's collections accessible to more people in new ways. Renaissance funds collections staff across the region including a Regional Collections Development Officer, curators, collections managers, documentation and access assistants to support collections information management, mapping, peer review, standards of collections care and display, temporary exhibitions and new, web-based resources.
Collections Projects
To view the collections projects and bodies of work for 2009-2011 please visit the Collections Projects page.
Buildings Projects
In 2008 - 09 Renaissance East Midlands encouraged and supported six museums to reduce their environmental impact through its Green Museums initiative. In 2009-11 the project will be rolled out; to find out more please visit the Buildings Projects page.
Digital Access to Collections
In 2008-2009 support was provided for museums to build capacity in digitisation of their collections through a pilot Digital Skills Development Programme and the production of guidelines. The Digitisation Development Fund supported fifteen projects that ranged from hardware purchases to an image library feasibility study and the development of a community website. 44 individual museums benefited from this programme.
To view our East Midlands online collections, resources and guides please view our Digital and Online Page.