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 | Art and Museums | Art
and Tax
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
Art and the Public
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
release |
Current research
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Art and Museums
Current ResearchThe Art Fund launches its second Museums Survey - 20 October 2009
Download
the survey factsheet Read more in the London Evening Standard and the Guardian. |
The Art Fund's
second nationwide museums and galleries survey shows that predictions of
the Great British "Staycation" proved accurate with half of UK museums and
galleries seeing an increase in visitors between March and September 2009,
including a fifth of museums who saw a rise in visitors of over 10%.
The Art Fund Museums Survey - 29 April 2009
The Art Fund has published the results of its nationwide survey of how museums and galleries are faring in the recession. Our survey shows that more people are visiting museums across the UK and that museums expect this trend to continue over the summer. However, many museums are also reporting budget cuts, and are worried these will deepen. This report underlines the public importance of our museums and galleries. We hope that it will help to encourage Ministers and local authorities to avoid making further cuts in these services – if at all possible. Download
the survey factsheet Listen to David Barrie talking to John Wilson about the
survey on Radio 4's Front Row |
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
