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National Programmes 2019/20 2019/20 It’s important that in numbers people right across the 2,800+ country are able to have objects loaned a relationship with the to 105 venues British ’s global 1, 50 0+ collection. Sharing long-term loans objects, skills and ideas, the Museum connected 10 with more than 10 million million+ people had the people outside of chance to see in 2019/20, helping to objects on loan, level up opportunity compared to 6.2 million visitors to throughout the UK. the Museum itself

9 specially curated National Programmes touring Sharing objects

‘ The Museum is committed to sharing its collections as widely as possible and building positive and sustainable relationships with a diverse network of partners across the UK.’

Desire, love, identity , Director, at Norfolk and Norwich Millennium . British Museum Photo by Hannah Hutchins. Pushing paper: The three types of are: contemporary drawing The British Museum has from 1970 to now at Oriental Museum. Touring exhibitions © Matt Jaworski three types of exhibitions Jointly curated touring exhibitions for sharing objects. There Spotlight Loans is no set menu – every exhibition is collaborative, tailored and unique. Touring exhibitions Often co-curated and incorporating objects from partner , touring exhibitions evolve as they travel around the country to tell regional as well as global stories.

This exhibition highlighted the Launched at the British Museum Desire, love, identity: previously overlooked LGBTQ history in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Museum’s collection and of the Sexual Offences Act, the touring enabled museum partners in , exhibition saw each partner shaping exploring LGBTQ histories Nottingham, Bolton, Norwich and the story with their own objects. Dorchester to do the same.

264,64visitors4 UK-wide Jointly curated touring exhibitions Working with museum partners, we bring objects together to tell stories in ways not otherwise possible at the British Museum.

The British Museum and Salisbury The exhibition looked at the varied and It showcased recent discoveries, : a hidden history Museum Partnership Exhibition changing explanations behind the with objects including the spectacular featured objects from both partners’ of hoards (precious objects including Ipswich torcs. collections. As well as Salisbury, it coins and placed in the of ancient Britain visited , Buxton, the Isle of Wight ground or underwater) and why they and Peterborough. were sometimes never recovered.

147,94visitors4 UK-wide 264,644 Spotlight Loans Smaller exhibitions, sometimes consisting of a single object. They offer the chance to explore objects in greater depth, at a wider range of venues.

This tour followed on from the Citi Featuring nine satirical prints from the was curated with Have I Got News For The golden age of satire? exhibition I object: ’s search late Georgian period, it offered a unique You panellist and editor, Ian for dissent, which explored how people snapshot of the time. Travelling from Hislop. Hislop also gave sell-out talks historically used objects to challenge to Nottinghamshire and at every venue. Late-Georgian satirical prints the status quo. Whitehaven in Cumbria, the display

46,81visitors 9UK-wide 46,819 46,819 Desire, love, identity at Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library. Photo by Hannah Hutchins.

‘ We are really thrilled to be hosting this exciting exhibition... It’s also a testament to our Millennium Library, which will be the only library to be hosting the touring exhibition.’ Margaret , Norfolk County Council Sharing skills

Connecting colleagues, young people and trainees with opportunities to gain and develop

Museum Futures trainees. new skills. Photo by Josh Caius. Portable This work is complemented by Scheme, Young Every loan between the skills development programmes: Archaeologists’ Club.

British Museum and Portable Antiquities Scheme Museum Futures partner museums across Knowledge Exchange the UK allows us to share Visitor Services Knowledge Circle knowledge and expertise. Portable Antiquities Scheme In numbers The Portable Antiquities 1.5 Scheme (PAS) helps million+ fnds have been to advance knowledge recorded to date and interest in the past by recording and 81,602 fnds were sharing archaeological recorded discoveries made by in 2019 members of the public. 119 national and local partners

42 Finds Liaison Offcers across and Wales Training in the community

Since 2014, the PASt Explorers project has organised training for community volunteers to help the important work of PAS.

In 2019/20, the project ran 22 training sessions across the country for PAS staff and volunteers. These sessions covered topics from recording objects to identifying Roman coins, with a session delivered in partnership with the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC), training branch leaders in the work of the PAS and how to use these skills for YAC activities.

Excavations at Gobowen, Shropshire. Courtesy of Portable PASt Explorers is supported by Antiquities Scheme. National Lottery Heritage Fund Museum Futures In numbers Led by the British Museum, 140 young people this programme invests in a attending new generation of diverse taster days museum professionals 8 through paid on-the-job Cultural Heritage training in digital skills. Diplomas earned in 2019

9 Diplomas currently in progress

658 credits earned by trainees towards Cultural Heritage Diplomas 2019 partners 2020 partners

British Museum Birmingham Museums Trust Bristol Museum of East Anglian Life British Museum National Museums Liverpool Derby Museums 17 Norfolk Museums Service Hastings Museum and Gallery Royal Pavilion and Museums and Gardens paid trainee South West Heritage Trust Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum Museums Trust Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery placements Tyne & Wear and Museums at museums

Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund across the UK Knowledge Exchange In numbers Since 2010, this scheme 100+ staff exchanges has supported week-long at more than 40 UK museums professional exchanges since 2010 with and heritage organisations across the UK. 11 In 2019, British Museum staff successful professional took part in exchanges with exchange placements with museum colleagues from fve partners Bath, Cambridge, Liverpool, delivered in 2019 Paisley and Tees Valley.

2019/20 partners

American Museum and Gardens, Bath National Museums Liverpool Paisley Museum, Scotland Tees Valley Museums University of Cambridge Museums

Supported by the Vivmar Foundation Paisley Museum

The Knowledge Exchange provided a timely opportunity for collaboration with Paisley Museum and Art Galleries as they deliver a £42 million redevelopment project, which has seen most of their collection move into a new, publicly accessible store.

Paisley Museum hosted Assistant Collections Manager, Christy Yates, who is working on transferring objects to the British Museum’s new store in Reading. As such, he was very interested to learn from staff at Paisley Museum about the move and documentation work.

In return, the British Museum hosted Paisley Museum’s Learning and Access Co-ordinator, Catherine Harbon. Catherine worked with our public programming and education teams and shadowed several learning sessions for school groups.

Christy Yates (British Museum) at Paisley Museum as part of the Knowledge Exchange programme. Visitor Services In numbers Knowledge Circle 8 partner In 2019, the British organisations Museum worked with partner organisations to 15 develop and deliver a pilot placements programme for front-of- 525+ house staff. Participants of had the chance to spend skills-sharing a fve-day, fully funded and co-ordinated professional exchange placement at one of the eight organisations taking part.

2019 partners

Black Country Living Museum British Museum Museums and Galleries National Museums Northern Ireland Roman Baths Salford Museum Service Salisbury Museum

Supported by the Vivmar Foundation Museum Futures trainees. Photo by Josh Caius.

‘ I can easily say this has been the best year of my life... I’ve spent a year learning all things digital from the fountain of knowledge that is my supervisor, Kevin, and I’ve felt so supported to make the most of being a trainee.’ Tasha Brown, Museum Futures trainee (2019) based at Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove Sharing ideas

Creating platforms to share ideas with individuals and organisations across the UK, the British Museum is continually inspired A self-led Samsung Digital Discovery Centre activity in the by its partners. Gallery. Youth Collective as Programmes include: part of Greengross The Museum supports a Summer Programme. Photo by Alastair Fyfe. Samsung Digital Discovery Centre culture of shared learning. National Programmes Conference British Museum Young People’s Programme We deliver programmes Where we are… for museum professionals, young people and children that encourage the exchange of thoughts and ideas. Samsung Digital In numbers Discovery Centre 68 Virtual Visit Delivering free, live, sessions in interactive workshops online 2019/20 for children aged 7–11 in 1, 974 classrooms across the UK. school children These Virtual Visits cover attended a Virtual key areas of the history Visit in 2019/20 curriculum in England and 800 Virtual Visit related subjects in Scotland, sessions booked for 2020/21 Wales and Northern Ireland (school year) so far from to the Indus out of 889 available Valley and .

Supported by Samsung Engaging schools

Through interactive activities, quizzes and thought-provoking questions, primary school students enhance their knowledge and understanding of the past.

In 2020, this programme expanded in response to schools being unable to physically visit the Museum, increasing to 33 sessions per week from November 2020, up from six per week prior to March 2020.

Students taking part in a Samsung Digital Discovery Centre workshop. National Programmes In numbers Conference 2019 300+ The National Programmes attendees team hosts a major annual 80+ speakers and conference at the British contributors from Museum for colleagues organisations in the UK museum and nationwide cultural heritage sector. 40 different breakout sessions, exploring seven themes

Supported by the Vivmar Foundation 2019 conference

Each year the conference addresses key subjects and issues relating to the cultural heritage sector. In 2019, the conference explored how museums are engaging with issues of representation, authority and power, with particular focus on disability, class, gender, race and sexuality. The conference covered a wide range of museum practice with workshops, tours, presentations and talks from Hartwig Fischer and OBE.

Delegates at the National Programmes Conference 2019. Photo by Josh Caius. British Museum Young In numbers People’s Programme 70 young people This programme is attended the 2019 committed to inspiring Summer School change in the Museum by 15 connecting with a diverse young people range of young people formed the frst British Museum both on-site and virtually. Youth Collective Launched in 2019, the programme delivers events 90% of the 2020 Youth and training for 16–24 Collective reported having an increased year olds, co-designed awareness of the personal, social by the British Museum’s and cultural issues explored in their Youth Collective. digital events

Supported by the Greengross family The programme seeks to work with young people who are Where we are... underrepresented in museums and under-served by the arts and culture sector. This UK-wide programme This includes, but is not limited to, young people who identify as: LGBTQ+, from a working for young people aged class background, disabled or neurodivergent, having a migrant or refugee experience, from the African 1 6–24 supports them to diaspora or South, East and South East Asian diaspora or ethnically diverse.

Each project will be unique, responding work in partnership with to a local need identifed by the young people. Project outcomes can take any form and may include flms, exhibitions the British Museum, a local and events.

Through 15 cultural projects over the cultural organisation and a course of the fve year programme, Where we are... will reach 150 young people and 60 key partner youth charity to co-produce organisations across the UK. projects that are meaningful and relevant to them in their community.

Supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Delegates at the National Programmes Conference 2019. Photo by Josh Caius.

‘ One of the best conferences I have attended in a long time. It’s so rare that all the sessions are so relevant and interesting, and it proved to be great for networking too.’ Conference speaker

Touring Museum Partnership 14 John O’ Groats exhibitions Futures Galleries Lerwick 36 T ullie House Museum and Art Gallery Desire, love, identity: 24 Birmingham Museums Trust 49 Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery exploring LGBTQ histories 25 Bristol Culture 50 Royal Cornwall Museum 1 26 Derby Museums 16 Great North Museum Inverness 2 National Justice Museum 27 Garden Museum 51 Museum 3 Bolton Library and 28 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery 24 Kirkwell Museums Services Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 29 Horniman Museum and Gardens 4 Norfolk and Norwich 30 Irish Linen Centre and Aberdeen Millennium Library Lisburn Museum 5 Shire Hall Courthouse and Museum Portable John O’ Groats 31 Museum of East Anglian Life 32 National Museums Liverpool Dundee Hoards: a hidden history Antiquities Scheme of ancient Britain 33 Norfolk Museums Service 34 Royal Pavilion and Brighton Museums 6 Salisbury Museum 35 52 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 7 , NMNI South West Heritage Trust 36 53 Berkshire 8 Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Buxton Museum and Art Gallery 49 37 54 Buckinghamshire 9 Brading Roman Villa Tyne and Wear Archives Edinburgh 55 Cambridgeshire 40 Glasgow 10 Peterborough Museum and and Museums 56 Art Gallery 38 Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside 13 Viking: rediscover the legend 57 Cornwall Newcastle 11 Museum Knowledge 58 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire 59 Devon and Somerset 36 16 37 83 Nordic by nature: 60 Exchange Carlisle modern design and prints 61 Gloucestershire and Avon Belfast 82 21 12 39 62 45 7 American Museum and Gardens Hampshire 19 15 41 13 Old Gala House 32 National Museums Liverpool 63 Herefordshire and Shropshire 30 14 Thurso Art Gallery 40 Paisley Museum 64 Isle of Wight 15 Kirkleatham Museum 41 Tees Valley Museums 65 42 University of Cambridge Museums 66 Kent 72 51 38 Ancient : new discoveries 77 67 and Cumbria 16 67 Hull Great North Museum 68 44 Leicestershire and Rutland 17 74 56 32 3 48 23 69 Lincolnshire 12 The golden age of satire? Visitor Services 70 London Liverpool Manchester Sheffeld Late-Georgian satirical prints 69 71 8 17 Knowledge Circle Norfolk 18 Pontefract Museum 85 72 North and East Yorkshire 2 18 Newstead Abbey 26 58 43 Black Country Living Museum 73 17 19 Beacon Museum Northamptonshire Norwich 44 Leeds Museums and Galleries 74 68 Peterborough Northern Lincolnshire Birmingham 4 11 71 33 45 National Museums Northern Ireland 75 The Kiyoharu Dragon Oxfordshire 43 10 24 78 20 46 National Trust 76 63 Treorchy Library Somerset 79 55 31 47 Roman Baths 77 South and 86 73 42 Pushing paper: contemporary 48 Salford Museum Service 78 Staffordshire and West Midlands drawing from 1970 to now 6 Oxford Salisbury Museum 79 Suffolk 21 20 75 54 52 Oriental Museum 80 22 Surrey and Hampshire 1 London 22 Cardiff Glynn Vivian Art Gallery 81 Sussex 61 70 29 27 84 46 82 47 39 53 County Durham, Darlington, 25 80 A Ming Emperor’s seat 66 and Teesside 23 83 62 Newcastle and Northumberland 35 76 6 87 Isle of Wight 34 28 84 South Wales Southampton 81 60 85 59 5 North Wales 64 9 Brighton 0 Partners involved in more than one 86 Warwickshire and Worcestershire Guernsey Isle of Wight programme are shown above with 87 Wiltshire Truro Jersey Plymouth a white outline. 50 65 57

Acknowledgements

The British Museum is grateful to the Dorset Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe for its support of our national work and this publication.

The Museum wishes to thank the following for their support: Baring Foundation Bridget Riley Art Foundation Clore Duffeld Foundation Graham and Joanna Barker The Greengross family The Headley Trust Leverhulme Trust The National Lottery Heritage Fund Paul Hamlyn Foundation Samsung Vivmar Foundation

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