After two years of research, the Museum Closure project report highlights significant trends in UK museum closures from 2000 to 2025. It reveals stark regional differences, with London gaining museums but losing council-run ones, while Scotland faced the most closures. Independent museums are replacing traditional institutions, though not fully compensating for losses.
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The museum boom: A bird’s eye view
New overview article in Cultural Trends from the Mapping Museums project. 🏛️📈🔎📊 Abstract. During the late-twentieth century there was a significant increase in the number of museums in the UK. Apart from the polemic heritage debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the boom in museums was not much investigated. Our project “Mapping Museums” collected and … Continue reading The museum boom: A bird’s eye view
Of museums, Covid, and social media
New open-access article from the Museums in the pandemic project 🏛️🌎💻 🦠 Abstract. This paper examines social media activity by UK museums during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a general perception that as museums closed their doors for extended periods, their digital presence increased to maintain connections with their audiences. However, much of the research conducted … Continue reading Of museums, Covid, and social media
[job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
📢 Come to work with us on museum analytics! 💡📊🏛️ URL: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-assistant-531235.html This is a full time, fixed term appointment until 30 September 2024 at Birkbeck, University of London. Please note, the successful candidate will be employed at Birkbeck for Year 1 and KCL for Year 2. Are you a recent PhD graduate or a … Continue reading [job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London
New AHRC project on museum analytics
Museum Closure in the UK (2000-2025) We are pleased to announce that the Mapping Museums Lab has been awarded £1M Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for their project ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’. Museums are defined as permanent institutions and are intended to preserve collections for posterity. Yet their closure is common. Our previous … Continue reading New AHRC project on museum analytics
Archive for Museum Analytics: new directions 2023
This is to archive Museum Analytics: new directions, the 1-day event we ran in May 2023 at KCL (official page on King's College London event blog). Programme ⏱️ When: Thursday 18 May 2023, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm (UK time) 📍 Where (hybrid): King’s College London, Bush House, (S) 1.01 (lecture theatre 1). For registration, please go to … Continue reading Archive for Museum Analytics: new directions 2023
Museums and their geodemographic context
Here's our new short paper to be presented at GISRUK 2023 in Glasgow! 🏴🏛️🌎 [PDF] "The geography of the cultural sector concerns the location of producers, consumers, and venues of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) to answer questions about their development and dynamics. Considering the case of the UK museums, we use national data … Continue reading Museums and their geodemographic context
Mapping heritage seminar at the Polytechnic University of Turin • 21 Nov 2022
Next week I will be giving a research seminar in Italian at this event on the theme of cultural heritage ("patrimonio"), on the 21 November 2022 at 6 PM (UK time). Talk title: "Mappare i musei britannici: la geografia del patrimonio culturale tra data science e GeoWeb" See Zoom link in the PDF below: locandina-settimana-patrimoniov-2022Download
Mapping museums in the UK
This article, written with museum guru Fiona Candlin, is the culmination of years of tortuous data collection and analysis and outlines a detailed quantitative geography of UK museums. It's available open access in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. All the data and resources are freely available on GitHub. Abstract: Museums are important centres … Continue reading Mapping museums in the UK
The UK museum boom event – 17 Nov 2022
I’m pleased to invite you to this event for the Mapping Museums project I am part of: Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 18:00 GMT Location: Clore Management Centre, 27 Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL Chair: Isabel Wilson, Arts Council England Speaker: Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology, Birkbeck Respondent: Lisa Ollerhead, Director, Association of Independent Museums Photo by … Continue reading The UK museum boom event – 17 Nov 2022
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