News Update for London's Museums
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@LondonMusDev E-update for London’s Museums – 26 April 2021 Museum Development London, and the national partnerships Museum Development England and Museum Development UK of which it is a part, have a new shared brand. This reflects the closer joint working by museum development services across the UK though joint projects such as the Museums Recovery programme funded by the Art Fund, and across England through joint projects such as the Museums Survey. The new branding will appear on all Museum Development London communications from this point on. The London Museums Survey 2020 is published today. Starting this year, the findings of the survey in all regions are published in the form of interactive infographic reports. You can view the London infographic here. A national infographic will also appear in the near future. The headline data provided by the survey is strong and compelling, and we would like to thank all those museums who participated. You can find out more about the Museums Survey below. The Government has updated regulations around the information that re- opened organisations must collect for Test and Trace. Venues which have re- opened must now ask every customer and visitor (over the age of 16) for their information for Test and Trace, unless those individuals have checked in using the NHS Covid-19 app. You can find the information you should collect on the gov.uk website under ‘Information to collect’. You can find more information on these changes on the MA’s website. As outlined in the ‘roadmap’ for England to move out of lockdown, museums will be able to reopen no earlier than the 17 May. The government has published the ‘COVID-19 Response - Spring 2021’ document, which outlines the plan in more detail. The move out of lockdown is reliant on four conditions which must be met before moving on a step – so these dates should be used as guides for the time being. Government has recently announced the Restart Grant scheme which supports businesses in the non-essential retail, hospitality, leisure, personal care and accommodation sectors with a one-off grant, to reopen safely as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. The grants are available now through your local authorities and consist of either up to £6,000 in the non-essential retail sector (likely to reopen on 12th April) or up to £18,000 in the hospitality, museums, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym sectors (likely to reopen from 17th May). You can find out more on the Gov.uk website and by contacting your local authority. The National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) has updated the Good Practice Guidelines for Reopening Museums it produced with support from DCMS and the Museums and Galleries Working Group. This guidance is for museums that are planning to open in line with the Government’s roadmap out of the current coronavirus restrictions. There is also a related and accompanying checklist to the (original) Guidelines produced by AIM working with Museum Development England. If you would like help or advice with reopening, do contact your MDO. Government guidance on how organisations are expected to support the NHS Test and Trace for staff, customers and visitors is available on the Gov.uk website. With museums currently pondering strategies for reopening from the 17 May, Bernard Donoghue, Director of ALVA, spoke at our Director’s Forum last month on ‘Challenges and opportunities for London museums in 2021’. You can find a recording of Bernard’s presentation on our YouTube channel. The National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced the recipients of the Second Round of their Culture Recovery Fund. Congratulations to London’s Chiswick House and Gardens Trust, East End Women's Museum CIC, Fashion and Textile Museum, Forty Hall, Enfield Council, Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College, Holland House CIO, Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery Trust, The Bentley Priory Battle of Britain Trust and the Chelsea Physic Garden Company. You can find further information about the grants awards, including a full list of recipients, on the NLHF’s website. Arts Council England has announced the recipients of the Second Round of their Culture Recovery Fund. Congratulations to London’s Charles Dickens Museum, Florence Nightingale Museum Trust, Freud Museum London, Fulham Palace, Gunnersbury Park Museum, Jewish Museum London, London Museum of Water & Steam, London Transport Museum, Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, Society of Antiquaries, The Brunel Museum, The Cartoon Art Trust, The Charterhouse, The Foundling Museum and The Garden Museum. You can find further information about the grant awards, including a full list of recipients, on ACE’s website. Arts Council England’s relaunched National Lottery Project Grants have been designed to help fund organisations, creative practitioners and freelancers as quickly as possible. New supplementary guidance for museums can be found on their website. In addition, the relaxation of the need for 10% match funding has been extended until 31 August 2021, so if you don’t have the full 10% expected (or any match funding at all), you’ll still be able to apply. Further details about the National Lottery Project Grants can be found below and in this video. Arts Council England has published their Delivery Plan for 2021 – 2024. ACE’s strategy, Let’s Create, describes their vision that, by 2030, England will be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. To help ACE achieve this vision, they will publish a series of Delivery Plans over the next decade. These will set out in more detail the steps they will take to deliver Let’s Create and how they will resource them. The first Delivery Plan covers 2021-24, and you can find it on their website. We have now started advertising the Skills Plus sessions for our 2021 – 2022 programme. We have just advertised a new session on ‘Museums and Communities in the Earth Crisis’, which will give you an overview of the climate and ecological crisis, and how it is impacting on London's communities. 2 We will continue to offer one-to-one advice to museums from their local MDO and specialists on Organisational Health, Audiences, Digital Technologies and Collections. You can find the support you need on this page. 1. Sector News: Museum Development London re-brands; Museums Survey 2020 published; Test and Trace requirements; Consumer Sentiment Tracker; UNESCO pandemic report; ACE Delivery Plan; Challenges and opportunities for London museums; Reopening Museums; Roadmap out of lockdown; £6million plan to support safe reopening of central London; Furlough Scheme; #NatSCA2021; Volunteer Leader of the Year Award; Accreditation Scheme update; ACE Accreditation Newsletter; Redundancy Hub; Culture at Risk; DCMS Coronavirus Bulletin 2. Funding and Funding Support: Coronavirus Restart Grants; National Lottery Grants for Heritage; National Lottery Project Grants; ACE Creative People and Places; Elephant & Castle Community Fund; Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund; Trusts and Foundations for London Museums resource 3. Training, advice and resources: Disposal during COVID-19; Museums and Communities in the Earth Crisis; Asbestos in Mixed Collections; Putting on a show; Understanding and engaging 21st century volunteers; 1-1 volunteering strategy consultation; Kids in Museums resources; After Brexit guidance; Kickstart scheme; Autism in Museums; Equality Diversity and Inclusion Resources; Volunteering during coronavirus; Ticketing resource; ACE Resources on Government and Wider Support 4. Job Vacancies: Creative Programmer; Curatorial Services & Operations Officer; Volunteer Administrator; Heritage Assistant: Collections and Museum; Heritage Assistant: Visitor Services; Curator (Maternity Cover); 2020 Project Assistant; Head of Collections and Public Engagement; Board members 5. Heritage in Lockdown: Museum of Childhood object for loan; Charles Dickens Museum Explore site 1. Sector News (to top) Museum Development London re-brands Museum Development London, and the national partnerships Museum Development England and Museum Development UK of which it is a part, have a new shared brand. This reflects the closer joint working by museum development services across the UK though joint projects such as the Museums Recovery programme funded by the Art Fund, and across England through joint projects such as the Museums Survey. The new branding will appear on all Museum Development London communications from this point on. Museums Survey 2020 published 3 The London Museums Survey 2020 is published today. Starting this year, the findings of the survey in all regions are published in the form of interactive infographic reports. You can view the London infographic here. A national infographic will also appear in the near future. The Museums Survey provides a comprehensive understanding at both regional and national level of the museums sector, to highlight trends and support benchmarking and advocacy. This survey was conducted over the period April 2019- March 2020, thereby providing an almost complete year of data before the point when the covid- 19 pandemic struck and museums were forced into lockdown. It therefore provides a unique snapshot of the London museums in ‘normal’ times, and a benchmark of the position the sector would ideally wish to recover to. The Museums Survey is a Museum Development England partnership project, and in 2020 was again undertaken for MD London and the other 8 English Museum Development regions by South West Museum Development. The interactive infographic incorporates a new methodology for estimating sector totals based on the mean figures from those museums responding to the survey. If museums have benchmarking queries which are not answered by the infographic, they should contact Museum Development London, as we can provide answers via a more detailed index of results. The headline data provided by the survey is strong and compelling, and we would like to thank all those museums who participated.