Surveying museums: What’s in and what’s out?

13th November 20178th January 2018 ubmjay001

We began the Mapping Museum research by investigating the numerous surveys and reviews of UK museums that have been compiled since the 1960s. Our intention was to use that material as the basis for our own dataset, but it gradually became clear that the various government and charitable bodies who had conducted the surveys or […]

Problems with the Data

5th June 20178th January 2018 ubmjay001

When I first began this research I had assumed that there was very little data on the museums that were founded in the late twentieth century. In fact, the contrary is true. A great deal of information has been collected about museums from the 1960s onwards. By our reckoning there were at least nine major […]

Mapping Museums

The history and geography of the UK independent sector 1960-2020

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Surveying museums: What’s in and what’s out?

Problems with the Data