Responsibilities Transfer
From 1st October 2011, new arrangements for the delivery of responsibilities previously undertaken by the MLA on museums, libraries and archives take effect. This follows the decision of the Secretary of State to close the MLA as part of a government review designed to reduce the number of arms-length agencies.
Arts Council England takes over museums and libraries responsibilities, including the Renaissance programme, Museum Accreditation, and Library Development, together with cultural property services such as Export Licensing and the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Some MLA staff have moved to posts with the Arts Council to help deliver these functions and responsibilities.
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. The site will not be updated, so please treat it as the static archive it is.
Enquiries about residual matters relating to the historical work of the MLA or its winding up process, should be made to 0121 667 4326.
Renaissance data collection
The Renaissance Data Collection (RDC) is a quarterly return of data from each site participating in the Renaissance in the Regions Programme. The data returns contains information on numbers of: visits; priority group visits; child visits; website visits; school visits; Higher Education visits; adult and child on-site participation; and outreach activity.
The data returns support Programme management and monitoring and forms the basis of the Renaissance Museums Performance Indicator statistical series. The data collection manual contains definitions of all the variables collected.
Data collection outputs
Annual reports
Detailed narrative report exploring data collection results and trends at national and regional level.
Quarterly summary reports
These reports include comparisons to the equivalent quarter in the previous year and data using a rolling 12 month dataset.