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About Renaissance East Midlands

Our Aims

We work with museums to help them be the best they can for visitors, staff, volunteers and the community. We do this by working with others to:

Increase engagement

  • By diversifying and increasing museum audiences to reflect local communities and visitors to the region
  • By highlighting and supporting museums as inspirational centres of learning

Create world class museums

  • By ensuring collections are cared for and developed to be more accessible to more people
  • By enabling museums to take advantage of current technologies

Create a more sustainable museums sector

  • By developing a diverse, knowledgeable, skilled and supported workforce
  • By creating a strong sector voice, representing a strong museums community in the region
  • By facilitating museums working together in a truly inclusive East Midlands museum community
  • By encouraging and supporting museums to be economically, socially and environmentally sustainable

East Midlands Renaissance Board

The Renaissance East Midlands Programme Board includes representatives from all the partner organisations

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Renaissance East Midlands team

Find out who to contact for further information at Renaissance East Midlands

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Renaissance East Midlands partners

Renaissance East Midlands works regionally with museums local government, and key agencies and organisations across the sector.

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Latest News

Responsibilities transfer

From 1st October 2011, this site will not be updated, so please treat it as the static archive it is. This is because <a target="_Blank" href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/">Arts Council England</a> has now taken over museums and libraries responsibilities. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/">The National Archives</a> has assumed responsibility for strategic leadership of the Archives sector. Arts Council responsibilities will also now include the Renaissance programme, Museum Accreditation, and Library Development, together with cultural property services such as Export Licensing and the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The National Archives has assumed responsibility for providing strategic leadership to the archives sector and advising government on its development. The MLA is now winding down, with a skeleton staff remaining until May 2012 to complete the management of existing Renaissance contracts, complete outstanding financial and contractual arrangements and prepare for the appointment of a liquidator. This website will remain live until 31st March so that the public still has full access to the material on it – good practice case studies, toolkits, guidance and a range of other publications.  Continue reading

  • Related links

  • east midlands

    How Renaissance is supporting museums in the East Midlands to serve the needs of their local communities.

  • renaissance impact

    Some of the outcomes of Renaissance East Midlands' projects during 2008/9 and an introduction to our 2009-11 Flagship Programme

  • info for museum sector

    Information on the current Renaissance East Midlands 2009-11 programme.

  • news and publications

    Follow this link to view the most recent Renaissance East Midlands Newsletter

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