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Tag: lockdown

Museum reopening after lockdown in the UK nations

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When museums began to reopen after lockdown restrictions were lifted in spring 2021, were there any differences between the four nations of the UK?  Our data gives slightly different pictures of the situation depending on how it is analysed. In one view, museums in England were more likely to reopen. In another, Scottish museums were […]

 Museums in the Pandemic

Accreditation, size, and museum reopening after lockdown

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As lockdown restrictions were lifted in spring 2021, were there any variations in reopening between accredited and unaccredited museums, or between museums of different sizes?   Briefly, accredited museums were more likely to reopen after lockdown than unaccredited museums, and larger museums were more likely to reopen than smaller museums. Read on to find out more […]

 Museums in the Pandemic

Museum governance and reopening after lockdown

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Which museums re-opened after lockdown restrictions were lifted in spring 2021, and did it vary by governance? In this blog we present our findings about the three largest groups of museums in our dataset: those run by local authorities, independents run on a not-for-profit basis, and private museums. As seen in the chart below, museum […]

 Museums in the Pandemic
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Long closures after lockdown

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When we set out to collect data on museums during the pandemic, we were eager to explore how long they remained closed and if they had reopened. The results were not what we expected and finding out why proved a more complicated process than we had anticipated.   To recall, we have built a web-scraping tool […]

 Museums in the Pandemic

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  • Was there a ‘swing to the digital’? Museums and social media in the pandemic 18th November 2022
  • The UK Museums Boom (and what happened next) 13th October 2022
  • More openings and closings in the pandemic 5th September 2022
  • Museum reopening after lockdown in the UK nations 21st June 2022
  • Accreditation, size, and museum reopening after lockdown 14th June 2022
  • Museum governance and reopening after lockdown 19th May 2022
  • Long closures after lockdown 5th May 2022
  • Museum websites: What can they tell us? 4th January 2022
  • New museums opening during the pandemic 14th October 2021
  • Mapping Museums is Dead. Long Live Mapping Museums 30th September 2021

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