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The Collecting Challenge: The Art Fund Museum Survey 2006
The Art Fund published the full report of its
UK-wide research into acquisitions in October 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
The research, the first authoritative study of UK
collecting, took a detailed look at acquisitions in UK museums – of all types,
and across all regions – over the last five years. It was undertaken with the
support of the Esmée
Fairbairn Foundation.
The research took place between November 2005 and April 2006 and over 300
museums took part– one sixth of all those accredited. The findings of the
on-line survey were supplemented with qualitative data gathered from a series of
one-to-one interviews with museum professionals.
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