Build Collections Fund Talent Go Further Our Guide for Museums 2017 – 2018 Introduction 2

Build collections Fund talent Go further Our guide for museums 2017 – 2018 Introduction 2

Curators’ Art Pass 5

Building collections 6 Acquisition grants Gifts and bequests Commissions Collecting initiatives

Developing talent 14 New Collecting Awards Curators and expertise Training and networking

Supporting museums 20 Art Fund Museum of the Year Art Happens Art Tickets Exhibition and touring programmes Special projects

Connecting communities 30 Promoting your museum Our audience Collaboration

Campaigning and advocacy 40 Public appeals Advocacy Sector research

Contacts 47 Introduction 5

Art Fund helps museums and galleries in the UK to develop their collections and put them at the service of a wide range of visitors and communities. We offer grants towards acquisitions, to support curatorial practice or projects and to facilitate the lending, borrowing, display and sharing of collections.

We receive no government funding: our programmes are made possible by those who buy a National Art Pass, supplemented by the generous support of many trusts, foundations, individuals and companies.

We understand the financial challenges faced by museums today. As we ourselves are sustained by fundraising at many levels, we want to pass on that experience and offer a range of opportunities to others so they may unlock new sources of support, expand networks and reach broader audiences.

To keep up to date with Art Fund initiatives, funding schemes, marketing opportunities and news, subscribe to our Museum Bulletin at artfund.org/bulletin.

And do contact us at any time. Please see our list of contacts on page 47.

Joseph Kosuth, Word Family Tree #1B, 2008, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. © Joseph Kosuth. ARS, NY and DACS, London 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers.

Art Funded £12,778 through New Collecting Awards (total cost £20,445) Curators’ Art Pass 7

123,000 members of the public already provide financial support to UK museums, through us. Meanwhile more and more curators are supporting the work of other institutions and colleagues everywhere by joining Art Fund themselves. If you’re intending to apply for an Art Fund grant for your museum, or simply want to show solidarity with your sector, please consider buying a Curators’ Art Pass.

Any arts professional working in a museum or gallery can buy this pass and become an Art Fund member for just £20 (70% off our standard individual National Art Pass). Your personal membership keeps you in the loop with your contemporaries, includes a full subscription to our award-winning magazine Art Quarterly, brings discounts in hundreds of museum shops and cafés, and – should you need it – also offers free or reduced-price entry to over 320 cultural venues, plus 50% off major exhibitions.

Art Fund works on the basis of mobilising communities to support the greater provision and enjoyment of art. Please make this commitment to help sustain your fellow museums, galleries and historic venues across the country.

To order your Curators’ Art Pass simply log in or register via My Art Fund at artfund.org Building Acquisition grants 9 Art Fund gives grants totalling between £4m and £5m every collections year to support new acquisitions.

We hope that each new acquisition will be transformative for its museum, so we ask applicants to indicate how they expect adding to their collection will change visitors’ understanding and enjoyment.

But transformative doesn’t have to mean expensive. Our grants can range from less than £1,000 to more than £1m. And though we might be best known for major acquisitions, we recognise the potential impact of art of all kinds – from fine, applied and decorative art to visual and material culture from all periods in all media, including contemporary commissions.

Last year alone we helped museums and galleries across the UK add nearly 250 works to their collections, awarding 75% of these grants to institutions outside London. Fully or provisionally accredited museums are eligible, as well as many other institutions with permanent collections held in trust for the public.

‘The extent to which the acquisition has raised the international profile of the museum’s ancient Egyptian collection, strengthened our scholarly reputation and added to our specialist network has somewhat surprised me. We received congratulations from Egyptologists all over the world, and have experienced a subsequent increase in interest in our collection.’ Grayson Perry, In its Familiarity Golden, 2015, Margaret Maitland, senior curator for the Ancient Mediterranean Crafts Council, Art Funded 2016 © Grayson Perry Courtesy the artist, Paragon | Contemporary Collections, National Museums Scotland Editions Ltd and Victoria Miro, London / Venice

Art Funded £60,00 with a contribution from the Do you want to apply for a grant? Wolfson Foundation (total cost £95,200) Find out more at artfund.org/supporting-museums Gifts and bequests 11

The receipt of gifts and bequests of works of art is one important way in which museums can develop their collections.

Encouraging this kind of private philanthropy has never been more important, and last year Art Fund helped owners and collectors place 113 works of art in 15 museums and galleries. We don’t just match-make; we can also facilitate the formal agreements and provide information on tax-efficient ways of giving art.

When it comes to placing gifts and bequests the more we know about all public collections the better, so please do keep in touch with any changes to the collecting objectives or focus of your museum.

‘A key reason for creating a new gallery in Wakefield was to exhibit the exceptional Hepworth Family Gift, a group of Barbara Hepworth’s surviving working models for her bronze sculptures, which Art Fund helped make possible. Art Fund has continued to help us grow our collection during an increasingly challenging time for museums, including facilitating one of the UK’s largest bequests in recent years by collector Tim Sayer MBE. Their work is crucial in enabling public galleries and museums to build on the philanthropic imperative and foresight of previous generations.’ Simon Wallis OBE, director, The Hepworth Wakefield

Miyagawa Kōzan II, Earthenware figure of two egrets, If you’d like to know more about gifts and bequests contact c1910-25, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, gifted by David and Anne Hyatt King through Art Fund, 2014 Emma Coleman in our programmes team: 020 7225 4822 Photo © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford or [email protected] Commissions 13

We’re always pleased to help museums and galleries work directly with artists. Since 2010 we’ve made grants totalling more than £1m towards supporting a range of new commissions that have each brought a permanent and original addition to a public collection.

Recent commissions we’ve supported include Untitled (Stainless Steel Tree) by Anya Gallaccio for the Whitworth (2015); Gabriel Orozco’s garden for South London Gallery (2016); and Dance (All Night, London) by Melanie Manchot, commissioned by Art Night and acquired for the Arts Council Collection (2017).

We’re happy to consider a variety of approaches to commissioning and acquiring. For example, DEPOT (2015) by Fiona Tan, commissioned by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art as a temporary project, was linked to the acquisition of Tan’s Nele/Nellie (2013) for Laing Art Gallery, with Art Fund support.

‘Commissioning for a collection is always a collaboration between the artist, the museum and the producers. Art Fund always seeks to support, with its great team of experienced and well-connected staff.’ Mary Griffiths, senior curator (modern and contemporary art), Whitworth Art Gallery

Anya Gallaccio, Untitled (Stainless Steel Tree) 2015, Whitworth Art Gallery, acquired with the assistance of Art Fund, 2016 © Anya Gallaccio. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2017. Photo: Janie Airey. If you are considering a commissioning project… Art Funded £35,000 (total cost £249,700) Find out more at artfund.org/supporting-museums Collecting initiatives 15 Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2002-2015, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery, Marian In recent years we’ve invested over £7m in a number of special Goodman Gallery © Steve McQueen collecting projects, focusing on material ranging from Art Funded £71,000 with a contribution medieval portraiture and Middle Eastern photography to from the Wolfson Foundation (total cost £236,447) performance art.

Among these projects, the Moving Image Fund (conceived in partnership with Thomas Dane Gallery and a consortium of donors including the Sfumato Foundation and the Rothschild Foundation) addresses the challenges of collecting film and video and aims to encourage artists, gallerists and funders to work more closely with museums in bringing important new moving image work into the public domain.

The Towner and Whitworth galleries were the first two venues to benefit from the Moving Image Fund, each receiving £200,000 to help develop their collections. In 2017 we expanded the fund to support two new museums, and we’re also working with Film and Video Umbrella to make four new commissions possible.

‘The Moving Image Fund has enabled us to keep our collection alive and breathing, create conversations between the past and present, acquire extraordinary works that will create new histories and new legacies, work with new artists and extend the reach, enjoyment and understanding of contemporary art to the wider public.’ Brian Cass, head of exhibitions, Towner Art Gallery

Os everum et ute expla del veresequis que enimet aut If you want to extend your commitment to film and video contact icilia eos evernam enimil molupta venihitatem harciur, Robert Dingle in our programmes team: 020 7225 4871 or excearu ptaquib earcim sin. [email protected] Developing New Collecting Awards 17 Every inspiring exhibition, display or acquisition depends on talent the research, knowledge and creativity of a skilled curator. Our New Collecting Awards support the curators of the future by providing funding for ambitious, up-and-coming individuals to start new areas of collecting for their organisations.

Since 2015 we’ve given New Collecting Awards (made possible by a number of generous individuals and trusts including the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation, the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts, the Headley Trust and the Vivmar Foundation, with other contributions from private individuals) totalling £1m to 17 curators for acquisition projects of all kinds and periods ranging from industrial photography to Soviet numismatic material, to art deriving from LGBT culture and history.

‘As an early-career curator, receiving this support has really boosted my confidence. Not only has the scheme enabled me to develop my research skills and tested my curatorial knowledge, it has helped me to expand my network of contacts with key individuals and organisations.’ Hannah Jackson, assistant curator (fashion & textiles), The Bowes Museum, awarded £60,000 through New Collecting Awards to build a collection of French haute couture

Barbara Truvada, tarot reading performance, part of John Walter’s If you are interested in undertaking a collecting project contact Alien Sex Club, 2014-2015, Walker Art Galllery, Liverpool, presented Emma Coleman in our programmes team: 020 7225 4822 or through New Collecting Awards (total cost £8,015) [email protected] Curators and expertise 19

As public funding declines, it is more difficult than ever for museums to invest in curatorial research. Our Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants are designed to tackle this challenge by providing funding for travel and other practical costs, helping curators with collection and exhibition research in the UK and abroad.

We have £75,000 to give in grants each year, and since 2012 we’ve supported over 320 curators, scholars and researchers with hundreds of projects.

Tell us about your research interests and plans, and find out how we can help. To be eligible, you need to be working with public collections.

‘The grant enabled me to have a career-enhancing visit to Japan that would have been otherwise impossible. I feel that Art Fund is listening to curators and doing everything possible to support us. These grants give staff in regional museums the means to develop skills and stimulate our ambition in a way that is often only open to curators in national museums.’ Kate Newnham, senior curator, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Birra talking to visitors in the project refuge/e shelter at Southbank Centre © AMP Art, 2017 Curators Peter Target, Georgia Haseldine and Paula Petkova of AMP Art were awarded a Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant of £2,260 to undertake research with refugee communities in If you have a research or travel proposal contact our Lebanon for the touring exhibition Project refuge/e programmes team: [email protected] Training and networking 21

Each year Art Fund offers a variety of fully funded training and networking opportunities for arts professionals.

We work with partners such as Sotheby’s Institute, Frieze and the Whitechapel Gallery to offercourses and seminars on a range of topics from how the art market operates to writing a successful funding proposal.

‘It’s refreshing and so important to have time to reflect on the big questions that tend to get buried by the urgent daily tasks, and also to have the opportunity to talk with fellow curators and professionals from all different institutions and regions. I came away with lots of ideas and felt really inspired.’ Victoria Howarth, curator, Jerwood Gallery

We’ve also developed traineeships partnering national museums with peers around the country to facilitate the sharing of expertise.

We’ve collaborated with the National Gallery on a curatorial traineeship programme in Old Master paintings (with the support of the Vivmar Foundation), most recently in conjunction with the Walker Art Gallery and Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, and with the V&A on traineeships in photography, most recently at Nottingham Castle Museum and the Graves Art Gallery.

Installing Art From Elsewhere, Birmingham Museum For more information on training and networking opportunities… and Art Gallery, 2015 © Nick Turpin 2015 Subscribe to our Museum Bulletin at artfund.org/bulletin Supporting Art Fund Museum of the Year 23 The biggest museum prize in the world, Art Fund Museum of museums the Year seeks out and celebrates innovation in museums and galleries across the UK. We award one outstanding winner £100,000 and each of the other finalists £10,000.

Art Fund Museum of the Year is a moment to spotlight the originality and ingenuity of our sector. The prize is awarded annually to the museum or gallery that the judges feel has had the most transformative year of all, delivering an exceptional experience to its public.

Each year’s five finalists – selected from applications by museums of all kinds and sizes – typically see a major boost in attendance and profile, strengthened support from stakeholders and wider public recognition of their role and contribution to society.

With past winners including The Hepworth Wakefield, the V&A and William Morris Gallery, the prize has done much to draw national and international attention to the remarkable creativity and achievements of the UK museum sector.

Are you the next Art Fund Museum of the Year? Applications for the 2018 prize open in December 2017. Contact Elke Wiebalck, prize project manager, to find out more: The Hepworth Wakefield, 2017. Photo © Marc Atkins 020 7225 4843 or [email protected] Art Happens 25 Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf in the Artists Garden, York Art Gallery, funded by an Art Happens campaign A crowdfunding platform with a difference, Art Happens is in 2017. Photo © Andy Smith designed especially to help museums and galleries raise £10,174 raised, 89 funders money for creative projects of all kinds. It provides connections with new donors and audiences, and helps turn ideas into reality.

It’s completely free to use and the Art Fund team offers support every step of the way, from creating videos to advising how to reward your backers. Unlike other crowdfunding platforms, 100% of donations go directly to the project.

Since its launch in 2014, museums have used Art Happens to raise almost £500,000 for diverse initiatives across the country – from pairing international street artists with a master fan maker in Greenwich to recreating Nantgarw porcelain using a 200-year-old recipe in Mid Glamorgan.

And in the year ahead, thanks to a special grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we’ll be developing additional digital resources designed to help more museums run even better crowdfunding campaigns.

‘Fantastic that we have hit our target still with a few days to go. We could not have ever achieved this without all the help, advice and support of the Art Happens team, all of whom have been incredible!’ Charles Fountain, projects manager, Nantgarw China Works Museum

If you want to make art happen contact Merrin Kalinowski in our museum marketing team: 020 7225 4888 or [email protected] Art Tickets 27

A ticketing system specifically designed to meet the needs of museums and galleries, Art Tickets provides the tools to help improve visitor service and income generation.

In 2014 we found that 45% of all charging museums have no online ticketing capability, so we developed a prototype ticket management system for 17 museums around the UK.

We’re currently working to upscale this system so that it can be made available to more museums in 2018, thanks to private funding and a grant from the Fidelity UK Foundation.

Not only will we cover the set-up costs for museums, we’ll also work with you on the associated marketing opportunities Art Tickets offers.

‘Art Tickets has been revolutionary for a small organisation like ours. It enables us to connect with a much wider audience online, providing a simple and accessible solution for buying both event and admission tickets. It has also reduced our behind-the-scenes administration by about 80%. Invaluable.’ Jenny Hand, director, The Munnings Art Museum

Courtauld Gallery, London, 2016 Photo © Andy Smith To find out more about Art Tickets contact Merrin Kalinowski in our museum marketing team: 020 7225 4888 or [email protected] Exhibition and touring programmes 29

We’re always looking for opportunities to increase public access to collections in new and creative ways. From Exeter to Shetland and in between, we’ve funded and promoted a variety of models for sharing – including national exhibition tours of the ARTIST ROOMS collection, Van Dyck’s final self- portrait and Constable’s iconic Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows.

We’re also helping to bring shows by artists representing Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale to the UK, with exhibitions drawn from the Scottish and Welsh pavilions planned for 2018 and 2019.

The Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund (made possible by the Garfield Weston Foundation) enables the wider sharing of works from national collections across the UK, providing funding for museums nationwide to borrow works from nationals and to maximise loans for their own collections and communities.

The programme will be delivered in three rounds, between 2017 and 2019.

ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern, 2016 © The Easton Foundation/VAGA, New York/ DACS, London 2017. Photo: Janie Airey. The ARTIST ROOMS touring programme is delivered by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate in a partnership with Ferens Art Gallery until 2019, supported using public funding by the National Lottery If you’re considering an exhibition or touring project… through Arts Council England, by Art Fund and by Find out more at artfund.org/supporting-museums or contact our the National Lottery through Creative Scotland. programmes team: [email protected] Special projects 31

Art Fund’s ambition to share more art with more people goes beyond acquisitions, loans and touring exhibitions. We also want to help museums do more with what they already have.

We recently launched the Treasure Plus toolkit, which shares case studies and findings from Treasure Plus – a project we ran in collaboration with the Headley Trust to support museums who wanted to do more with their archaeology collections.

The toolkit offers advice on everything from presentation and interpretation to engaging new audiences with treasure – all grounded in the experience of 36 museums around the country who received Art Fund support to experiment with new displays and community projects.

You can access the Treasure Plus toolkit at artfund.org/treasure.

We’re continuing to develop new opportunities: keep an eye on our Museum Bulletin for news of our next focused funding initiative.

Courtesy Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. Photo © Holly Pickering For more information about our latest special projects… Subscribe to our Museum Bulletin at artfund.org/bulletin Connecting Promoting your museum 33 Art Fund serves both UK museums and your visitors. Through communities the National Art Pass we aim to bring you closer together.

By buying a National Art Pass, our members raise the funds that make our work possible. In turn, their support is rewarded through free or 50% off entry to ourpartner museums.

Through the National Art Pass, we offer significant promotional support to a network of over 700 partner museums and connect them not only with our 123,000 members but also, using our communication channels, with hundreds of thousands of art lovers and museum-goers.

Whether your museum or gallery has received funding from Art Fund or you want to become a marketing partner, there’s no cost involved in joining our network. We’re here to help you attract visitors and engage new audiences.

If you’re interested in becoming a partner, or just want to know more, contact our museum marketing team: 020 7225 4870 or

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, [email protected] Edinburgh, 2016. Photo © Andy Smith 2016 35 Across artfund.org, our Art Guide app and Art Quarterly magazine, we regularly share the accomplishments and National Museum Cardiff, 2017. activities of our partner museums and inspire people to Photo © Andy Smith visit them.

Every partner museum receives a page on artfund.org and a listing in our annual Art Map, sent to our entire membership.

Our seasonal Exhibitions Guide, distributed across our network, reaches more than 300,000 visitors; our fortnightly Art in Your Inbox e-newsletter engages 180,000 subscribers; and our social media channels reach a community of 175,000 followers.

‘Our work with Art Fund’s marketing team has been really beneficial. The team are always full of ideas and have helped us reach out to their members to promote our temporary exhibitions with great success.’ Ella Lewis-Collins, marketing manager, The British Museum

If you’re interested in becoming a partner, or just want to know more, contact our museum marketing team: 020 7225 487 or [email protected] Our audience 37

Keen culture-seekers, Art Fund members are always looking for new experiences and inspiration.

Our members

There are more than 123,000 members with a National Art Pass in the UK, and in 2017 the average age of a new member was 38. Our community is always growing.

Of our members, around 90% visit museums, galleries and historic houses at least five times a year or more; 56% say they visit more often since buying their pass; and 60% regularly visit with a plus one. 86% regularly go to museum shops and cafés, and spend an average of £25 when they visit. More than 80% of our members are also members of other art organisations.

Art Partners

As Art Fund’s closest supporters, Art Partners make a crucial financial contribution to all areas of our work, helping us do more than ever for museums and their visitors.

From private views of major exhibitions to meeting artists in their studios, we take Art Partners to see art in new ways, through expert eyes and in unexpected places.

Whitworth Art Gallery, To learn more about Art Partners contact Elke Wiebalck in our Manchester Photo © Nick Turpin development team: 020 7225 4843 or [email protected] 39 Student Art Pass

In the current academic year we are expanding our existing student membership to approximately 17,000 by enabling all students to apply for a Student Art Pass.

Any student in the UK can get a pass for just £5 before early December 2017.

Student Art Pass members receive a dedicated e-newsletter and enjoy access to a bespoke student members’ page at artfund.org, featuring content tailored to them and news of opportunities across the art sector – all to encourage them to visit as widely as possible.

If you know someone who might want a Student Art Pass… Direct them to artfund.org/student

Pechchaan: Art From Another India, Tramway, Glasgow, featuring works acquired through the Art Fund’s Renew If you want to connect with our student audience, scheme within a space designed by Gabriella Marcella, 2016, © Andy Smith contact Charlotte Wood in our museum marketing team: 020 7225 4854 or [email protected] Collaboration 41

We’re always interested in collaborating with others on creative projects.

We’re currently working with the Royal Academy on RA250 to help make their 250th anniversary celebrations in 2018 a truly national occasion, while our support for the 2017 edition of Art Night in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery facilitated a workshop for curators, the opportunity for students and recent graduates to become Art Night Guides and a new commission by Melanie Manchot.

Meanwhile, we’ve been working with Museums Sheffield to extend the impact of our 2015 project Going Public: International Art Collectors, keeping the conversation going through exhibitions drawn from the collections of Valeria Napoleone (2016) and Jack Kirkland (2017).

We also work with partners including VocalEyes and Stagetext to help museums build on their existing access programmes and create opportunities for visitors with sensory requirements.

Melanie Manchot, Dance (All Night, London), 2017. To discuss a collaborative programme, or to take part A co-commission by Art Night and the Arts Council Collection made possible by Art Fund. in RA250, contact our programmes team: 020 7225 4865 Courtesy Parafin, London. Photo © Rachel Cherry or [email protected] Campaigning and Public appeals 43 From the Staffordshire Hoard and the Wedgwood Collection advocacy to the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, we’re well known for our campaigns to save works of art and for galvanising support behind public appeals.

But we don’t do it alone. Each appeal is run in partnership with the museum that plans to acquire the work, and ultimately can involve thousands of participants. It’s about bringing people together, pooling knowledge and resources and leveraging each donation – big or small – to attract the next.

‘Acquiring the Armada Portrait was a unique opportunity for Royal Museums Greenwich and the success of the public appeal was in great part due to our collaboration with Art Fund. Not only did we receive a substantial grant of £1m that kick-started the entire campaign but we also benefited greatly from the Art Fund team’s unrivalled experience and infectious energy.’ Christine Riding, head of arts and curator of the Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich

Art Funded £1,000,000 (with additional contributions from Linbury If you are considering a public fundraising campaign… Trust, Garfield Western Foundation, Headley Trust, other major donors and over 8,000 members of the public as part of a joint appeal with Find out how we can help at artfund.org/supporting-museums Royal Museums Greenwich) Total cost £9,674,000 (tax remission) Advocacy 45 Design Museum, London, 2016. Photo © Andy Smith As well as investing directly in art and public programmes, Art Fund also fights for what matters to museums and their visitors.

Free admission to national museums, the introduction of the Cultural Gifts Scheme (which gives tax incentives for gifting works of art to museums), improvements to the protection of works of art under threat of export and the constant need to maintain museum funding at both national and local government levels are just a few of the issues we have campaigned for recently.

Our independence means we can take a stand and have an opinion. We want to make sure your voice is heard too.

‘As a strong and independent voice, Art Fund’s sustained advocacy and support has been critical in helping Birmingham Museums Trust demonstrate its cultural value regionally and nationally.’ Toby Watley, director of collections, Birmingham Museums Trust

If there any sector issues you think we can help with contact Karen Wright in the programmes team: 020 7225 4852 or [email protected] Sector research 47

Museums and galleries face a changing and challenging landscape. Social, political and economic factors are impacting audience behaviours and expectations, and we all need to be responsive, agile and innovative.

To help cast light on ways forward, we regularly commission research to make sure we recognise the issues that matter most to museums and visitors, and we work with other funders, agencies and partners to share intelligence. This helps us direct our efforts in the most effective and strategic ways possible.

Published under the title Art Insights, our research reports focus on trends in UK museums and suggest actions you can take in your own organisation. We hope these reports provide rigorous, practical advice, and we invite arts professionals to use them in shaping the future of their organisations.

Recent reports look at the rise of cultural hubs and the evolving role of the 21st-century curator. Find out more at artfund.org.

If there’s a particular area of research you think we should Exhibition Road, London Photo © Discover South Kensington undertake, contact Karen Wright in the programmes team: 020 7225 4852 or [email protected] Contacts 49

Rachael Browning Karen Wright Acting head of programmes Policy and public affairs manager [email protected] [email protected] 020 7225 4816 020 7225 4852

Emma Coleman [email protected] Programmes manager 020 7225 4865 [email protected] 020 7225 4822 Elke Wiebalck Art Fund Museum of the Year project manager Robert Dingle [email protected] Contemporary projects manager 020 7225 4843 [email protected] 020 7225 4871 Charlotte Wood Senior marketing manager, museums Eleanor McGrath [email protected] Senior programmes manager, acquisitions 020 7225 4854 [email protected] 020 7225 4815 Merrin Kalinowski Museum marketing relationship manager Penny Bull [email protected] Senior programmes manager 020 7225 4888 [email protected] 020 7225 4840 Jessica Lane Museum marketing assistant Nancy Saul [email protected] Programmes assistant 020 7225 4870 [email protected] 020 7225 4865 [email protected]

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