SHARE East 2018-19 Annual Review

SHARE Museums East a network of know how CONTENTS

Foreword 1-2 OUR GOALS East of England museums overview 1-2 Goal 1 Excellence 6 SHARE’s year at a glance 3 Goal 2 About us 4 Audiences 7 Goal 3 Resilience 8 Goal 4 Leadership 9 Goal 5 Children and Young People 10

COUNTIES

Bedfordshire 11 Cambridgeshire 12 13 Hertfordshire 14 Norfolk 15 16

Norfolk Museums Service 17

University of 18 Museums

Our partners and participants 19

© of Cambridge (David Kirkham) Cover image: Museums Pick and Mix event at Museum (Norfolk Service) 1 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 2 ISABEL WILSON STEVE MILLER Senior Manager Assistant Director Community Museum Development, and Environmental Services FOREWORD Arts Council England (Culture & Heritage), Head of Norfolk Museums Service, Head of Norfolk Arts Service

The museums in the East of England are wonderfully We are investing £12.4 million in the national Museum The East of England has a vibrant museums sector. consultation with the regional museums sector and has varied. There are museums about iconic figures, coastal Development programme between 2018-2022 which 162 Accredited museums span the range from been designed to address the challenges and support heritage and much more. At Wisbech you have one is delivered regionally via nine providers. We are really volunteer-run museums through local authority and its opportunities. university to Nationals. Excellence is to be found at all of oldest purpose-built museums with extraordinary pleased to continue our long strategic partnership with Innovative new governance, business development levels, whether it is a community engagement project in treasures and, at Hitchin, a brand new museum Norfolk Museums Service and the SHARE Museum and retail projects are designed to improve museums’ a small, independent museum or a schools’ programme showcasing and interpreting collections from Development programme. resilience. Museums are encouraged to understand North Hertfordshire. in a large local authority service. The programme focusses on building capacity, resilience and respond to the needs of existing audiences and Museums play an important role in communities. and skills so that museums can inspire, engage and There are, of course, challenges. Continued funding to reach out to new ones. SHARE’s collections work They document and represent aspects of our stories. reflect diverse audiences. SHARE innovate and evolve pressures place strain on many museums, whether supports developing collections to be more relevant, They connect us and teach us about ourselves, our their programmes to help museums keep up to date. they receive public funds or not. Audience expectations including contemporary collecting and telling histories and our planet. Over the past year they have done so much good work are constantly evolving. The workforce is changing, with hidden histories. but I’d particularly like to highlight their promotion of the an increasing emphasis on volunteering as a means of Arts Council England funds the Museum Development SHARE’s activities, together with its famously Creative Case for Diversity, encouraging museums to addressing reduced funding – we are seeing signs that programme because we believe in great museums for comprehensive training programme – 55 events gain wider perspectives to inform and strengthen their volunteering among the over-65s is on the decline at everyone. While celebrating their rich variety, we believe attended by over 900 museum staff and volunteers programming and public offer. the same time as volunteering among young people that a sustainable future is about museums working in – go a long way to supporting its vision of a stronger, is increasing. partnership, telling human stories, putting visitors first, I’m also impressed with the regional team’s contribution healthier museums sector. However, despite the challenges, museums in the maintaining standards and being creative. to the national Museum Development Network. We’ve Norfolk Museums Service is proud to have been been sharing learning, ideas and good practice. region are thriving and performing well. The number of While many museums are thriving, a significant awarded the contract to deliver the SHARE Museum Accredited museums has remained stable, and with 14 number are facing real challenges – whether because Some of the recent national developments which Development Programme for 2018-22 by Arts Council now actively working towards Accreditation more are of financial uncertainty, a declining pool of volunteers, the SHARE team have supported include the roll-out England. Above all, SHARE is a truly collaborative set to join the fold. SHARE’s mission is to support all of coastal erosion, or other reasons. All are having to of the refreshed Accreditation scheme; a new Arts programme and I would like to take this opportunity to these organisations to continue to develop and become adapt. The SHARE Museum Development team works Council funding stream for museum projects and the thank all our partners and contributors to making it the more resilient. Its 2018-22 programme was created in in partnership with others to help museums do that by development of our next strategy which will guide all of success it is. being approachable, challenging and ambitious agents our work over the next decade. of change. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the SHARE team for all of their work and to wish all of the region’s museums every success for the future.

EAST OF ENGLAND Museums Overview

Museums 6,783 activities 8,153 active employed and events volunteers 11,346 educational 1,185 full time engaged contributed 4.7m total GROSS equivalent sessions engaged 310,848 708k hours, visitors to £119m ECONOMIC paid staff 321,471 people participants worth £9.3m museums IMPACT 3 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 4

SHARE Museums East SHARE’S YEAR AT A GLANCE a network of know how ABOUT US

Our mission SHARE Museums East is the Museum Development Programme for the East of England. It is managed by Norfolk Museums Service and 37 55 is to support delivered by a team of five staff who work closely with museums excellence, and our partners across the region. We support museums to 97% develop their skills and resilience, and we place skills sharing resilience and and peer-to-peer learning at the heart of our work. MUSEUMS SUPPORTED EVENTS organised which Our programme through cohort cooperative Our programme for 2018-22 has been developed in collaboration with the programme sessions of event attendees rated 929 working in museums sector. It is responsive, flexible and designed for museums of all the standard of speakers / PEOPLE attended types and sizes. Thirteen networks, funded by SHARE but self-managing, training facilitators as museums in the support our work by delivering training in key specialist subject areas. GOOD or EXCELLENT East of England. Our funding SHARE’s main funder is Arts Council England (ACE). During 2018-22 ACE 29 has awarded SHARE nearly £1.75m to deliver museum development Our key partners are services to the 162 Accredited museums in the region. In addition to ACE funding, we generate income through funding applications, consultancy GRANTS given Arts Council England and development services. Thanks to ACE’s generous funding, our training 94% to 23 museums totalling Association for is free or heavily subsidised to all Accredited museums in the region. Independent Museums £41,815 Governance Cambridgeshire County Council SHARE Museums East is managed by Norfolk Museums Service, a service of Norfolk County Council. Norfolk Museums Service’s governing body is ATTENDEES reported they have Collections Trust the Norfolk Joint Museums Committee, which provides governance and gained new and/or improved Essex County Council strategic oversight to the SHARE programme. Details of the Joint Museums existing skills which they £436,282 Hertfordshire County Council Committee including meeting schedules, agendas and minutes can be can implement back at their £ 7 found on the Norfolk County Council website. organisations as a result of Luton Culture SHARE’s training* Norfolk County Council Our work is guided by the SHARE Advisory Forum, which acts as a ‘critical INVESTED in museum NETWORKS supported friend’ to the SHARE Programme. It is composed of 12 nominated and Suffolk County Council development from with grants totalling £5,800, elected members who represent the museums sector in the East of Arts Council England (ACE) funding including 3 diversity grants University of England, covering all six counties and the different types of museum. Cambridge Museums Our partners 14 In addition, there are those, too We deliver the SHARE Programme in partnership with other organisations. numerous to mention, who have SHARE funds Museum Development Officers in each of the region’s six MUSEUMS supported in the supported our work through their counties to help them deliver work which meets local objectives while also East of England through our valuable contributions of time, skills supporting ACE’s five Strategic Goals. EVENTS ran by our networks 160 training programme and resources.

*where delegates have scored partly, mostly or completely, which is the standard of how we measure learning. SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 6 SHARE project officer Ruth Burwood

With their help and advice, SHARE has enabled Ware Museum to be Collections Care Conference, Cambridge (Norfolk Museums Service) proactive in their choice of further GOAL 1 Excellence rationalisation of the Museum’s collections.” Ware Museum Aim To support the region’s museums in the Networks development of excellent collections practice in Conservation Network conservation, care, storage, knowledge and access. Costume and Textile Network

Heritage Engineering Network

Maritime Heritage East Highlights Money and Medals Network • SHARE’s 2019 Collections Care Conference, in partnership with Natural History Network The University of Cambridge Museums, was attended by over 80 people. The theme was collections management systems and delegates learnt about the challenges of inheriting old systems Collections store, Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (Essex Collection of Art from Latin America) Look ahead and transitioning to new ones. SHARE has worked to embed the SHARE launched the Hidden Histories small grant scheme, Creative Case for Diversity across • supporting museums to address the lack of representation of some its programme – from the inclusion groups from our communities. A seminar highlighted examples and of new diversity criteria in all grant different approaches to re-interpreting collections. Four museums applications, to refreshing existing OUR GOALS were awarded grants of up to £3,000 and will be contributing a case training such as text writing, study to SHARE’s Creative Case for Diversity ideas library. with references to recent sector discussion on representation. • Working in partnership with the Collections Trust, SHARE launched its first cohort focussing on developing plans and procedures to We look forward to developing tackle documentation backlogs in museums across the region. Six this work to encourage museums museums participated in the year-long programme, which included to energise their contemporary training, support and one-to-one advice. Museums have developed collecting, whilst unlocking the a range of resources to plan for inventory and collections potential of existing collections management projects as a result. through innovative research collaborations. 7 8 SHARE project officer SHARE project officers Kathryn Moore Sally Ackroyd Ruth Burwood

Burwell Museum Stellar training has been using courses and

Museums Pick and Mix event at Ipswich Museum (Norfolk Museums Service) Audience Finder for workshops. We Time & Tide Museum (Norfolk Museums Service) two years now […] It’s received assistance GOAL 2 paid off in terms of a through the SHARE GOAL 3 massive improvement Museums East Audiences in the quality of governance grant Resilience audience data we can which kickstarted a Aim now provide monumental change Aim for funding bids.” in the museum.” To ensure that the region’s museums are To support museums to anticipate and adapt to Burwell Museum Cater Museum broadening their audiences, widening access to economic, environmental and social change by participation in their work and providing a source seizing opportunities, identifying and mitigating Networks Networks of inspiration to as many people as possible. risks, and deploying resources effectively in line Digital Development Forum Fenland Museums’ Network with their mission. Front of House Forum Retail Forum

Museums and Highlights Communities East • SHARE has supported museums in improving the experience of Look ahead Highlights their visitors by gathering and using visitor data in various ways. We will continue to support • The Regional Accreditation Advisor delivered training on the independent museums to review revised Accreditation Standard to county museum forums and • The SHARE Mystery Shopping Scheme continued to provide Look ahead the Museum East of England Group. Our new role in assessing the comprehensive insight into all aspects of a museum visit from their governance and convert to SHARE is supporting small eligibility of museums applying to join the Accreditation Scheme research to arrival, from galleries to café and shop. Staff and incorporated organisations. We are museums with limited capacity was successfully rolled out. volunteers from 20 museums took part. working with the county Museum to collect and analyse visitor data Development Officers to identify • Five museums across the region embarked on their conversion • SHARE also supported four museums to start collecting data via VIE (the Visitor Insight East relevant museums and offer a to Charitable Incorporated Organisation status with the help of about their visitors via the Audience Finder scheme. programme). 14 museums in three support service to museums SHARE funding and support work. • Museums and Communities East (MACE) ran a Pick ‘n’ Mix event clusters are taking part in 2019-20. making this transition. With the help of business-focused specialists we have been able about supporting diverse practitioners and engaging diverse • We will assess the pilot museums to offer three museums reviews of their business operations to audiences through interpreting collections in a new way. from our energy saving project. identify strategies to develop and maintain financial sustainability. Once we have evaluated the • We asked specialist engineers to advise two museums on steps results we will be looking for other they could take to improve energy consumption levels. Small museums to work with on this grants were given to the museums to help affect advised changes. programme in the coming year. 9 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review 10 SHARE project officer SHARE project officer Sally Ackroyd Kathryn Moore

The support and SHARE was very advice received from helpful and supportive

SHARE’s Volunteer Awards ceremony at the Museum of East Anglian Life (David Kirkham) SHARE is the most in guiding us through Museum Holiday Club at Wisbech & Fenland Museum (Wisbech & Fenland Museum) valuable that we the process of working GOAL 4 receive because it with local schools GOAL 5 is rooted in shared and teachers.” Children and Young People Leadership experience across Chatteris Museum this region within this sector.” Network Aim Regional Learning Network Aim Natural History Museum at Tring To equip museum professionals and key To support the region’s museums in the volunteers with the ability to perform their role Networks development of excellent provision for children and effectively; develop their workforce; establish and Museum Managers’ Network Look ahead young people and to broaden ways in which they

maintain positive professional relationships; and Volunteer Coordinators’ Forum In 2019-20 our training programme work in partnership with them. to lead change and innovative initiatives. will build on the theme of excellence with SHAREplus events and will again Look ahead include free training on delivering Highlights January 2020 sees the first Discover and Explore Arts Awards • SHARE continues to work with county museum education groups session of our new qualification in museums. Highlights to support family friendly and other projects. Museums in in Volunteer Management, which We will bring together all the great • We have developed a way to offer museum trustees the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Luton received grants to boost is accredited by the Institute of work being done in our museums opportunity to review their boards’ skills and membership. We their family friendliness after training from Kids in Museums. Leadership and Management. to welcome neurodivergent children worked with our first museum board and will roll out this type of There are 12 places on the course, (and adults) at a summit. • SHARE supported museums working with Local Cultural Education review to museums in the coming years. and we wish everyone the best of Partnerships in King’s Lynn. SHARE also worked with Festival Bridge We will work with Norfolk Museums • We were very grateful to the Museum of East Anglian Life in luck with their participation and CALSA (Culture & Arts Leaders in Schools and Academies) teachers Service’s Kick the Dust project to Stowmarket for hosting the SHARE Volunteer Awards event in assignments. and English Heritage in Fenland museums to support their work engage more young people in June. We had 67 nominations for categories as diverse as Digital with local schools. In 2020 we will deliver a second museums and heritage. Volunteer, Outstanding Young Volunteer and the Trustee Award. round of Changemakers, our • Wisbech & Fenland Museum successfully ran a holiday club for local Thank you to everyone who got involved with nominating, coming leadership programme for early- children, building on knowledge of a previous pilot in Suffolk. along or helping to organise the awards – but of course the most and mid-career professionals. • SHARE introduced a new training day examining excellence and important thank you is to everyone who volunteers in all of Building on the highly successful consistency in learning programmes and experiences. our museums. Changemakers 1, we will develop a programme that gives emerging • The Annual Children and Young People conference in partnership leaders the skills and confidence with the Festival Bridge welcomed 60 delegates to Castle they need to go on to future jobs. focussing on Early Years provision. 11 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 12 County snapshot County snapshot 8 Accredited museums 37 Accredited museums 320,783 visitors to museums* 1,713,517 visitors to museums* BEDFORDSHIRE £3,158,541 Gross visitor impacts* ** £38,190,594 Gross visitor impacts* ** CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Volunteers at the Farmland Museum (Museums in Cambridgeshire, Andrew Wilkinson)

The BACE Twinning schools and providers (Marko Sulic-Woodgate) Highlights • Museums in Cambridgeshire (MiC), the County’s independent association £600 Highlights of Accredited museums working towards Accreditation, launched a Bedfordshire Museums Development worked with the SHARE Volunteer Museum • six-month strategic consultation with members. The new five-year Development Co-ordinators and Heritage Engineering Networks to run an event to Museum £5,000 Development strategy, to be published in November 2019, will encompass an action Grant improve understanding of diversity issues. The day covered awareness £13,685 Grant plan for 2020-2022 and partnership goals that better support local SHARE grants of a museum’s legal obligations, developing an understanding of what £22,500 to museums SHARE grants priorities and museum resilience. barriers museums may present to those with protected characteristics, £28,000 to museums Other SHARE • The Museum of Cambridge began its transition to a volunteer-run model support and simple solutions to reducing or removing them. grants whilst the Cromwell Museum Trust took legal ownership of its collection The Bedfordshire Museum Development Officer worked with a heritage Total value of SHARE grants £41,685 • following handover from Cambridgeshire County Council. Both museums Total value of SHARE grants £28,100 learning consultant to create workshops at the Herts, Beds and Luton achieved re-Accreditation in early 2019. Education Forum, where members shared practice and defined what a quality learning experience in a museum includes. The sessions created Case Study: St Neots Museum a best practice framework which is now a toolkit that members use to ‘thinks like a business’ measure their current schools’ offer in a peer-to-peer support setting. The funding and ongoing The children were able support provided by As part of a wider museum resilience project, St Neots Museum to clearly articulate not Case Study: The BACE Twinning project SHARE Museums East participated in SHARE’s ‘Think Like a Business’ programme in which consultant Finella Devitt helped the team pinpoint areas for development only how much they had and the Museums The Bedford Arts & Cultural Education (BACE) Twinning Project addressed that would best place the museum for a large capital bid to the National Partnership Officer has enjoyed and engaged with challenges around participation and engagement in culture through Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). the session, but also the an innovative scheme that matched local cultural providers (such as been invaluable, enabling Key takeaways from the project included the need to address staff benefits they felt it could The Higgins Bedford, Full House Theatre, Bedford Creative Arts, The our museum to enhance resource issues and expand their public events programme by piloting Philharmonia Orchestra and more) with Bedford Borough schools. its community offer.” bring to their learning new profit-generating events, on- and off-site, linked to the town’s across the curriculum.” Partners worked together to develop and deliver cultural opportunities for Martin Lawrence MBE regeneration ambitions. Director, Wisbech & Fenland Museum Teacher involved in project young people and strengthen links between schools and cultural providers. As a result, trustees and staff have reviewed their core management These partnerships built vital cross-sector relationships through peer-to-peer structure and addressed recommended short-term improvements, linked professional development sessions and the funding of creative projects. to their business plan. These actions, including the recruitment of a new Cohort participants regularly met up for professional development sessions. assistant post to support day-to-day museum operations, helped the team A one-day conference was held at the University of Bedford about the remove significant barriers to the continued development of their NLHF project. Planning is underway to build on its success, to deepen the bid. Feeling more confident, resilient and connected with local priorities, the relationships between Bedford Borough schools and local cultural providers. museum team are moving forward with their capital project application. 13 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 14 County snapshot County snapshot 34 Accredited museums 25 Accredited museums 555,274 visitors to museums* 681,349 visitors to museums* ESSEX £5,819,106 Gross visitor impacts* ** £8,184,623 Gross visitor impacts* ** HERTFORDSHIRE

Highlights • The inaugural Hertfordshire Association of Museums Awards celebrated the very best projects and people involved with museums across the Snapping the Stiletto (Essex County Council) County with six award categories. Highlights • A Hertfordshire Association of Museums grant enabled the University of Hertfordshire (UOH) Art Collection to organise a workshop called • Chelmsford Museum and Colne Valley Railway have both recently completed Responding to Art with Words. The workshop explored new ways to major redevelopments funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. engage with the collection and the interpretation of the art on display Chelmsford Museum has created a new café to improve their financial £3,000 £900 in the exhibition. sustainability. Colne Valley Railway have used their project as an opportunity Museum Development Museum to start working towards Accreditation. Grant Development • Maldon Museum in the Park has undergone a review of their Grant £9,150 SHARE grants to museums SHARE grants organisational governance with sector expert Julie Cole, supported by £30,500 to museums the Museum Development Officer. Building on the review, they have £26,000 Other SHARE successfully transitioned to Charitable Incorporated Organisation status. support grants Total value of SHARE grants £33,500 Case Study: Snapping the Stiletto Total value of SHARE grants £36,050 ‘Snapping the Stiletto’ is a county-wide women’s history project, exploring how Essex women’s lives have changed since 1918. The project received Responding to Art with Words workshop at the University of Hertfordshire (Joe Fordham) a £95,445 grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund for 11 local museums to explore their collections and discover hidden inspirational Including high profile, Thank you so much for Case Study: Mill Green Museum stories. Running from September 2017 to January 2020, it aims to replace loaned objects in our all your help and support, A SHARE Safe and Secure Grant helped Welwyn and Hatfield Museum the outdated stereotype of ‘Essex Girls’ with stories of Strong Essex Women. displays gives us a and particularly for your Service to purchase two new display cases for Mill Green Museum. The new The project has to date worked with over 200 volunteers to create a touring fantastic platform cases were needed to enable the museum to host high profile loans from financial support that exhibition, run an International Women’s Day Festival with the University on which to build a national and other significant collections. allowed Julie to work of Essex, and hosted pop-up displays at events, festivals and shopping historically authentic for us. It made a huge centres. It has produced posters about different Essex women, which were Following staff participation in SHARE training to build knowledge of and accessible activities difference.” displayed at train stations around the county, and is working with teachers loan processes and requirements, it became apparent that although the to create learning resources. With SHARE funding, the project hosted a and events programme.” Museum had borrowed from a national collection in the past, the existing Brigid van Bruggen Linda Dobbs Chair of Maldon Museum poet-in-residence, who worked with local communities to explore the temporary exhibitions gallery and the display cases it contained no longer Museums Manager in the Park heritage of Essex women. met the standards for the Government Indemnity Scheme (GIS). Welwyn Hatfield Museum Service Participating museums are: Braintree Museums, Brightlingsea Museum, The two new display cases are linked into the main alarm system and Chelmsford Museum, Colchester and Ipswich Museums, the Combined provide the necessary environmental conditions to meet GIS. They are Military Services Museum, Epping Forest District Museum, Essex Fire currently being used in a programme of local artist exhibitions and their Museum, Essex Police Museum, the Museum of Power, Redbridge installation has enabled the Museum to secure loans from the Tate Museum and Southend Museums Service. for their upcoming exhibition. 15 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 16 County snapshot County snapshot 34 Accredited museums 35 Accredited museums 669,832 visitors to museums* 726,980 visitors to museums* NORFOLK £11,280,946 Gross visitor impacts* ** £12,430,519 Gross visitor impacts* ** SUFFOLK

The Falcon, Museum of the Broads Children’s activities at Ipswich Museum Highlights Highlights £6,547 £800 • SHARE supported Museums Norfolk in a facilitated review of its business • Transforming People to Transform Museums is a three-year programme £7,833 Museum plan and vision. As a result, it changed its name to Heritage Network supporting 27 trainees to develop core heritage and business development Development Norfolk to widen its remit. Now, Heritage Network Norfolk acts as a Museum skills in museums across Suffolk. The first cohort of nine trainees was Grant champion and a unified voice for the wider heritage sector in the county. Development recruited in 2018. Working with local community groups, the project is SHARE grants Grant to museums developing a more representative workforce in museums. £22,000 • Bressingham Steam Museum was awarded a Safe and Secure Facilities SHARE grants Other SHARE Grant. This allowed the museum to meet the standards required to enable £33,000 to museums • The Young Leadership Scheme, developed by Community Action Suffolk, support and continue loans from the National Railway Museum. Bressingham supports young people aged 16 to 25 to get involved in leadership roles grants currently has three National Collection standard gauge locomotives on in their communities through year-long, volunteer trustee placements. Total value of SHARE grants £39,547 Total value of SHARE grants £30,633 loan, the only ones in the East of England. The Association for Suffolk Museums welcomed a young trustee to its Management Committee in March 2018. Case Study Case Study: Summer in Suffolk Museums The Museum of the Broads took part in two SHARE projects this year. A volunteer attended the Sustainable Technologies workshop, delivered We are extremely grateful The Summer in Suffolk Museums programme is an audience development We continue to receive by specialists exploring ways to reduce energy use. The same company for the contribution made initiative that supports the promotion of family-friendly activities and events excellent support and conducted an energy use assessment at the Museum. The buildings are by all staff, volunteers, in Suffolk museums throughout the school summer holidays. A total of 30 advice from SHARE of a non-standard construction, so the Museum was relieved to have it funders, stakeholders museums took part in 2018, delivering over 100 family-friendly events Museums East in the and activities. confirmed that the only way it could really reduce its energy costs was and partners that work way of practical help, to replace the old lighting with LED lights, more efficient to run and less together to make Suffolk A new digital calendar with the events was created on the Suffolk Museums suggestions, and training. damaging for the objects on display. website (www.suffolkmuseums.org). Marketing also included posters, flyers, Museums an asset for The support we receive articles in the East Anglian Daily Times and social media. Families Suffolk The Museum of the Broads also wanted to improve its visitor offer and the county.” is invaluable.” obtained a grant to build an electric boat to increase the number of Magazine, a project partner, featured a Summer in Suffolk Museums front St. Seraphim’s river trips available to visitors. When the opportunity arose to acquire Gerard Brewster cover and pull-out map of Suffolk museums which was delivered to 17,000 Icon & Railway Museum the neighbouring property and re-develop the whole, enlarged site, the Chairman of the Association school bookbags. for Suffolk Museums Museum turned to SHARE for help in developing a fundraising strategy The hard work of Suffolk museums in developing their family-friendly and became part of the 2018-19 Fundraising Cohort. The training enabled activities and the Summer in Suffolk Museums promotion has supported a the team to understand how to make a case for support and the best steady increase in child visitors to Suffolk museums since 2015-16 when the funders to approach. programme started.

* Figures from SHARE Museums East Annual Survey of Museums 2018-19 (75% response rate). **Based on The Association of Independent Museums’ Economic Impact Toolkit. 17 2018-19 SHARE Annual Review SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 18

NORFOLK MUSEUMS SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE MUSEUMS

2018-19 in summary Norfolk Museums Service (NMS) is a local authority The year in numbers The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) is a museums service made up of 10 sites across the county. consortium of eight museums and the Botanic Garden, NMS is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation in 2019 and in 2018-2022 an Arts Council England-funded and also has Sector Support Organisation status to We welcomed back the National Portfolio Organisation. We are proud A total of 388,742 people manage and deliver Museum Development in the Museum of Zoology after to work closely with SHARE. visited the 10 sites major development region through SHARE. A Warm Welcome The Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval England project received a We received a record-breaking The UCM has developed Warm Welcome training to support our front 50,568 Stage 2 pass by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF). The plans for this of house teams and ensure a consistent welcome to all visitors across our schoolchildren transformational project include re-instating the original Norman floor level venues. This year the UCM Opening Doors Project Coordinator has been participated in 1,393,000 in the Keep, making all five levels of the Keep accessible for the first time; and visitors delivering the training at venues across the region including the Museum school visits, the highest annual the development of a new medieval gallery, designed in partnership with the of Cambridge, where she adapted the session for the Museum’s staff and visits NMS has on record British Museum. 1,000 volunteers. Since then, she has worked with Museum of Cambridge staff to develop an online training module for their volunteers. The Kick the Dust Norfolk project commenced. The project, delivered in Average number of children 488 volunteers partnership with YMCA Norfolk, aims to transform how heritage organisations and young people our learning Wisbech & Fenland Museum contributed 45,866 engage with young people aged 11-25. The first six months of the project staff worked with a week The UCM is working in partnership with Wisbech & Fenland Museum to hours of their time engaged 1,745 young people, all of whom have faced barriers to participation highlight its remarkable collections. This year the Fitzwilliam Museum’s in heritage and arts activities. We provided SHARE Applied Arts team worked with Wisbech staff and volunteers on a pilot NMS hosted 4 SHARE with the equivalent of documentation project to catalogue and photograph the Wisbech ceramic In 2018 NMS completed the four-year NLHF-funded SHARED Enterprise events and delivered collections. The Wisbech volunteers were trained in documentation and project which delivered specialist fundraising support to 660 people from or contributed to 9 £11,725 object cleaning techniques. The aim is to incorporate the data onto the 289 heritage organisation across the East of England. The resources of in-kind support through staff SHARE training museum’s online collections catalogue make the pottery and porcelain produced from the project are now available to download from time and free venue hire sessions collection digitally accessible in its entirety for the first time. www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk.

NMS staff supported 54 7 SHARE networks UCM staff and volunteers as members of their benefited from SHARE steering groups training and events

UCM staff including the 11 members of NMS 8 Regional Conservator staff are Accreditation led or supported SHARE Mentors supporting Networks and delivered independent museums across or contributed to Norfolk and Suffolk. SHARE training 12 sessions or events Time and Tide Museum Takeover Day (Norfolk Museums Service) The University Museum of Zoology (The University of Cambridge Museums) SHARE Annual Review 2018-19 20 Museums supported by SHARE in 2018-19:

100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum Cromwell Museum Ickworth House Museum of Archaeology & RAF Air Defence Radar Museum Stow Maries Great War Aldeburgh Museum Dacorum Heritage Trust Imperial War Museum Duxford Anthropology, University of Cambridge Ramsey Rural Museum Aerodrome Museum Ancient House Museum Dunwich Museum Ipswich Museum Museum of Cambridge Rayleigh Town Museum Swaffham Museum Anglesey Abbey, Gardens & Lode Mill Duxford Aviation Society Ipswich Transport Museum Museum of Classical Archaeology, Ridgmont Station Heritage Centre The Polar Museum, University University of Cambridge of Cambridge Ashwell Village Museum East Anglia Transport Museum John Bunyan Museum & Library Row 111 Museum of East Anglian Life The Red House Audley End East Anglian Railway Museum Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge Royal Anglian Regiment Museum Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell The Scouts Association Bawdsey Radar Trust Ely Museum Laxfield & District Museum Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum Museum of Power Heritage Service Beccles & District Museum Epping Forest District Museum Leighton Buzzard Royston & District Thorney Heritage Centre Narrow Gauge Railway Museum of the Broads Museum & Art Gallery Bishop Bonnerʼs Cottage Museum Essex Fire Museum Thurrock Museum Little Hall, Lavenham Museum of Zoology, Saffron Walden Museum Bishopʼs Stortford Museum Essex Police Museum University of Cambridge Time & Tide Museum Long Shop Museum Sainsbury Centre for Braintree District Museum Farmland Museum Natural History Museum at Tring Trueʼs Yard Fisherfolk Museum Lowestoft Museum Visual Arts, UEA Bressingham Steam Museum Fitzwilliam Museum Natural History Museum, Colchester University of Cambridge Museums Lowewood Museum Sedgwick Museum of British Schools Museum Flag Fen Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum Earth Sciences University of Hertfordshire Lynn Museum Burnham-on-Crouch Forncett Industrial Steam Museum Norfolk Museum of Freemasonary Sheringham Museum Art Collection & District Museum Maldon District Museum Fry Art Gallery Norris Museum Southend Central Museum Verulamium Museum Burwell Museum March & District Museum Gainsborough’s House North Hertfordshire Museum Southwold Museum Wardown Park Museum Bushey Museum & Art Gallery Melford Hall Garden City Collection Study Centre Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery St Albans Museum & Gallery Warner Textile Archive Cambridge Museum of Technology Merchant’s House Girlguiding Norfolk Archive Octavia Hill Birth Place Museum St Neots Museum Watford Museum Centre for Computing History Resource Centre Mildenhall & District Museum Orford Museum St Seraphim’s Icon West Stow Anglo-Saxon Museum Chatteris Museum Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse Military Intelligence Museum Oxburgh Hall & Railway Heritage Museum Whipple Museum of the History of Chelmsford Museum Halesworth & District Museum (Intelligence Corps Museum) Science, University of Cambridge Palace House Newmarket Stained Glass Museum Hertford Museum Mill Green Museum & Mill Wimpole Hall Paycockeʼs House & Garden Stevenage Museum Colchester Castle Museum Higgins Art Gallery & Museum Moyseʼs Hall Museum Wisbech & Fenland Museum Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery Stockwood Discovery Centre Colne Valley Railway HMS Ganges Museum for Watton Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum Prickwillow Engine Museum Stories of Lynn Museum

With thanks to everyone who supported or contributed to our programmes in 2018-19:

Wymondham Heritage Museum Chelmsford Museum (Norfolk Museums Service) Luton Culture Norris Museum Sheringham Museum Anglesey Abbey (National Trust) Christchurch Mansion Heckington Windmill Mildenhall Museum North Hertfordshire Museum Shuttleworth Trust Arts Council England (Colchester & Ipswich Museums) Hertfordshire County Council Moyse’s Hall Museum Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery South & East Museums Federation Association of Independent Museum Colchester & Ipswich Museums Hollytrees Museum (St Edmundsbury Museums) (Norfolk Museums Service) Southend Museums Service Audience Agency Collections Trust (Colchester & Ipswich Museums) Jane Munns Norwich Castle Study Centre (Norfolk St Albans Museums Museums Service) Audley End House & Gardens (English Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Stained Glass Museum (University of Cambridge Museums) Palace House Newmarket Heritage) Culture24 Imperial War Museum Duxford Strangers Hall David Blackburn Ely Museum Ipswich Museum Museum of the Broads Panacea Trust (Norfolk Museums Service) Braintree District Museum English Heritage (Colchester & Ipswich Museums) Museum of Cambridge Peterborough Museum Suffolk County Council (Vivacity Peterborough) Burwell Museum & Windmill Essex County Council Ipswich Transport Museum Museum of East Anglian Life True’s Yard Fisherfolk Museum Ramsey Rural Museum Cambridge Arts Theatre Essex Record Office John Bunyan Museum Museum of London UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Royal Opera House Bridge Cambridge Museum of Technology Festival Bridge Kids in Museums Museum of Power University of Cambridge Museums Leighton Buzzard Museums Association Royston & District Museum Cambridge University Botanic Gardens Firstsite & Art Gallery University of Leicester (University of Cambridge Museums) Narrow Gauge Railway National Lottery Heritage Fund Fitzwilliam Museum School of Textiles Welwyn Hatfield Museums Service Cambridgeshire County Council (University of Cambridge Museums) Prof. Sarah Lloyd Natural History Museum at Tring (University of Hertfordshire) Scott Polar Research Institute Whipple Museum of the Centre for Computing History Gainsborough’s House Norfolk County Council History of Science Long Shop Museum (University of Cambridge Museums) Charity Finance Group Gressenhall Farm & Workhouse Norfolk Museums Service (University of Cambridge Museums) Wisbech & Fenland Museum Contact us The SHARE Team 2018-19

www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk Regional Museum Development Manager @SHAREmuseums JAMIE EVERITT [email protected] Museum Development Project Officer Audience Development and Children & Young People KATHRYN MOORE SHARE Museums East c/o Norfolk Museums Service Shirehall, Market Avenue, Museum Development Project Officer Norwich NR1 3JQ Collections and Regional Accreditation Advisor RUTH BURWOOD (from January 2019) MIRANDA ELLIS (to February 2019)

Museum Development Project Officer Leadership & Resilience SALLY ACKROYD

Museum Development Assistant NATASHA MONTGOMERY

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