Art and the Public
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Art and the Public: public value of art collections
Art and the Public: University of Leicester, PhD
research
Art and Museums: Museums Survey
Art and Museums: Museum Collecting, an International
Comparison
Art and Museums: The Collecting
Challenge
Art and Tax: Private Collections in the
Public Domain
The Art Fund conducts its own research to better understand the needs of museums and those that visit them.
Our research helps inform the Art Fund's policies and, in turn, our campaigning priorities. We also analyse research undertaken by others in the arts world.
Research
Our research falls under three main headings:
Art and the Public
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Collecting Challenge 2010 29 April 2010 The Art Fund has released the results of its Collecting Challenge 2010 survey looking at the acquiring habits of museums and galleries. 276 UK museums took part in the research between January and March 2010. This is an update on the original Collecting Challenge survey which took place in 2006. The picture found that in the past five years staffing and financial worries are continuing to have an effect on museums’ collecting activities. However, some interesting innovation has been seen such as an increase in borrowing between institutions to keep their displays fresh and also a rise in the number of museums that are working together to make some ambitious joint acquisitions. Read the press release |
New ResearchArt Fund publishes research into the public value of art collections
Eight years after free admission to museums and galleries was introduced, the Art Fund releases its new research, Free to see – but what’s next?, exploring what has happened since the national museums freely opened their doors, and what value the British public places on their national art collection. The research finds that free admission is highly valued and boosts the sense of public ownership of national museums. But it also finds that other barriers still remain which prevent people from visiting museums and galleries. Read the press
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Current research
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Art and Museums
Museum Collecting: An International Comparison
The Art Fund has published research which
compares the purchasing power of the UK’s major museums with some of their
counterparts abroad. The new research, the first of its kind, shows that
the UK’s leading art museums lag behind other world-class museums when it
comes to money available to buy new works of art for their
collections. |
The Collecting Challenge: The Art Fund Museum Survey 2006
The Art Fund published the full report of its UK-wide research into
acquisitions in May 2006. The findings reveal a crisis in funding but also
a lack of will on behalf of central and local government to support
collecting. The Art Fund is calling on both central and local government
to recognise the importance of collecting to the work of
museums. |
Art and Tax
