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Science Museum Group Annual Report and Accounts Annual Report and Accounts 2015−2016 Science Museum Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester National Railway Museum in York and Shildon National Media Museum SCMG Enterprises Ltd HC 420 Science Museum Group Annual Report and Accounts 2015−2016 Report and Accounts presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 9(8) of the Museums and Galleries Act 1992 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 14 July 2016 HC 420 Science Museum Group (SMG) members: (Formerly known as National Museum of Science & Industry) Science Museum Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester National Railway Museum in York and Shildon National Media Museum SCMG Enterprises Ltd © Science Museum Group 2016 The text of this document (this excludes, where present, the Royal Arms and all departmental and agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context The material must be acknowledged as Science Museum Group copyright and the document title specified. Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected] You can download this publication from www.sciencemuseumgroup.ac.uk. Print ISBN 9781474130837 Web ISBN 9781474130844 Printed in the UK by the Williams Lea Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office ID 30031608 07/16 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum SMG Annual Report and Accounts 2015−16 Contents 1 About the Science Museum Group 5 2 Achievements and Performance 7 Science Museum (SM) 15 Museum of Science & Industry (MSI) 21 National Railway Museum (NRM) 24 National Media Museum (NMeM) 28 3 Financial Review 32 4 Remuneration and Employees 35 5 Sustainability Report 41 6 Statement of Board of Trustees’ and Director’s responsibilities 44 7 Governance Statement 45 8 The Certificate and Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General to the Houses of Parliament 52 9 Financial Statements 53 5 SMG Annual Report and Accounts 2015−16 6 SMG Annual Report and Accounts 2015−16 1. About the Science Museum Group Purpose and objectives The Science Museum Group (SMG) is devoted to the • Secure that the objects are available to persons seeking history and contemporary practice of science, medicine, to inspect them in connection with study or research, and technology, industry and media. Its collections form an • Generally promote the public’s enjoyment and enduring record of scientific, technological and medical understanding of science and technology and of the change since the 18th century. They are the largest, most development of those subjects, both by means of the comprehensive and most significant in their field anywhere Board’s collections and by such other means as they in the world. SMG incorporates the Science Museum, the consider appropriate. Science Museum Library and the Wellcome Collections of Taking due regard of the Charity Commission’s general the History of Medicine in South Kensington; the Museum guidance on public benefit, the Board of Trustees of the of Science and Industry (MSI) in Manchester; the National Science Museum (the SMG Board) has agreed that the Railway Museum (NRM) in York and in Shildon; and the mission of SMG is to engage people in a dialogue about National Media Museum (NMeM) in Bradford. Collections the history, present and future of human ingenuity in stores are located at Wroughton, Wiltshire and Blythe the fields of science, technology, medicine, transport House in West Kensington, London. A further store at and media. SMG will achieve this by aspiring to the Brunel Avenue in Salford was vacated in April 2015. highest international museum standards in the care and As defined in the 1983 National Heritage Act, SMG’s presentation of collections, programming, learning and charitable objectives are to: advocacy for its subject areas. This informs all decision- making, future planning and the setting of strategic • Care for, preserve and add to the objects in its collections objectives. • Secure that the objects are exhibited to the public History and organisation The Science Museum has its origins in the South partnership with Sedgefield Borough Council. The National Kensington Museum set up soon after the Great Exhibition Media Museum was established in 1983 as the National of 1851. The South Kensington Museum was reorganised Museum of Photography, Film and Television, with the as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science support of Bradford City Council. The Science Museum Museum in 1909. The Science Museum expanded outside collections store at Wroughton, a former Second World London and the National Railway Museum, which opened War airfield, was made available to the museum by the in 1975, was established as a result of the transfer of the Ministry of Defence in 1979. The Museum of Science and British Transport Commission’s railway collection to the Industry opened in 1969 as the North Western Museum of Board of Trustees of the Science Museum. The National Science and was registered as a charity in 1987. It joined Railway Museum at Shildon was opened in 2004 in SMG in 2012. Legal status and Group structure The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum is the Act and the Museums and Galleries Act 1992. SMG is an corporate body of SMG and was established under the exempt charity under Schedule 3 of the Charities Act 2011, National Heritage Act 1983. Until 1984, SMG was managed with DCMS acting as its principal regulator for charity law directly by Government when it ceased to operate as part purposes, and is recognised as charitable by HM Revenue of a Government department. It now has the status of a & Customs. non-departmental public body (NDPB), operating within SMG has a wholly owned subsidiary trading company, the public sector but at arm’s length from its sponsor SCMG Enterprises Ltd (company registration no. department, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport 02196149), set up in 1988 and operating across all SMG (DCMS). These accounts fulfil the requirements of the 1983 museums. 7 SMG Annual Report and Accounts 2015−16 Museum addresses Science Museum National Railway Museum National Media Museum Exhibition Road Leeman Road Pictureville London York Bradford SW7 2DD YO26 4XJ BD1 1NQ Museum of Science & Industry National Railway Museum at Shildon Liverpool Road Shildon Castlefield County Durham Manchester DL4 1PQ M3 5BG Company addresses Entity Registered Charity Registered office number registration SCMG Enterprises Ltd 02196149 – Science Museum Exhibition Road London SW7 2DD List of SMG advisers SMG SCMG Enterprises Ltd Bradford Film Ltd Auditors Comptroller and Auditor General Grant Thornton UK LLP National Audit Office Grant Thornton House 157–197 Buckingham Palace Road Melton Street London SW1W 9SP London NW1 2EP Bankers Barclays Bank plc Barclays Bank plc Floor 27 Floor 27 1 Churchill Place 1 Churchill Place London E14 5HP London E14 5HP Solicitors Farrer & Co. CMS Cameron McKenna LLP Farrer & Co. 66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields Mitre House 66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields London WC2A 3LH 160 Aldersgate Street London WC2A 3LH London EC1A 4DD Trowers & Hamlins LLP 3 Bunhill Row London EC1Y 8YZ 8 SMG Annual Report and Accounts 2015−16 2. Achievements and Performance SMG strategic objectives Each SMG museum has its own distinct identity and • Strengthen its core narratives and deliver dynamic ambitions, but SMG also recognises the opportunities it gallery displays has as a group and its capacity to be greater than the sum • Implement clear audience strategies that focus on of its parts. The statements of SMG vision, mission and providing life-enhancing experiences objectives given below have been informing SMG’s long- • Extend its reach nationally and internationally term strategy since 2011. • Be an organisation that is extrovert, entrepreneurial, efficient and dedicated to the development of great SMG mission: SMG museums share a mission to engage people people in a dialogue about the history, present and future of human ingenuity in the fields of science, technology, These objectives underpin all of SMG’s work and the medicine, transport and media. specific objectives and activities implemented at each of its museums as discussed in more detail below in the context SMG vision: To be internationally recognised for SMG’s of both SMG and each of its museums. creative exploration of how science, innovation, and industry created and sustain modern society. During the past year, the SMG Board has engaged in a process to update its strategic objectives to take SMG to The strategic objectives across SMG are to: 2030. This is expected to be completed in the financial year • Aspire to the highest international museum standards ending 31 March 2017. in the care and preservation of collections, scholarship, programming, learning and advocacy for its subject areas SMG Group Wide activities Collections SMG is also putting into action a programme of investment to upgrade and replace existing storage. Following the Collections services government’s announcement of funding to replace and In 2015-16, SMG adopted a new approach to collections relocate the storage facilities at Blythe House, plans for services, which are the functions that underpin the this project will be further developed in 2016-17. These care, management and use of the SMG collection across plans will be developed in conjunction with replacement all sites. The implementation of a long-term SMG of existing facilities at Wroughton that are life-expired, Collections Services Strategy was commenced with the and consolidation of storage resulting from Masterplan aim of delivering a more accessible and sustainable projects at SMG museums. The long term objective is a collection (over 400,000 artefacts and millions of archival step change in the proportion of collections stored in the and photographic items), that is better understood and most appropriate conditions after the anticipated opening appreciated both internally and externally.
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