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Future of Kirklees Museums & Galleries Survey Future of Kirklees Museums & Galleries Survey We’d like your views about the future development of our museums and galleries. Before completing this survey, please take a look at our draft Vision, “Culture Kirklees”. Your views will be considered alongside other information before our Cultural Vision is agreed in the Autumn. Q1 Please let us know when you last visited.. In the last 6 In the last 2 More than 2 years Never months years ago Red House Tolson Museum Oakwell Hall and Country Park Dewsbury Museum Huddersfield Art Gallery Bagshaw Museum Q2 If you have visited our museums and galleries, what are your main reasons for visiting? Please select up to four reasons Seeing an exhibition or display Attending an event, workshop or class For food and drink Visiting the park, gardens, outdoor spaces Exploring a historic building Spending time with friends and family Learning Volunteering Working Shopping Things to do with children Q3 How much do you support or oppose the following ideas, which relate to approaches in our draft Cultural Vision? Strongly Support Neutral Don't Don't support a little really support at support all Providing museum services in other community locations (e.g. schools, community centres) rather than a dedicated museum building There being one museum in North Kirklees (Batley, Spen, Dewsbury), one museum and art gallery in South Kirklees (Huddersfield), and Oakwell Hall The South Kirklees museum and gallery being developed in a Huddersfield town centre location The local community should take a more active role in running their local museum Transferring the running of museum services to local volunteers Reducing opening hours whilst ensuring museums and galleries are open weekends, school holidays and most bank holidays Closing the whole Kirklees Council museum service to the public Making local historical and cultural information available online Access to a quality museum service is more important than the number of museum buildings Q4 The following ideas come from our draft Cultural Vision. How important is it to you that.. Very Fairly Neither Fairly Not important important important nor unimportant important at unimportant all ..more people see and enjoy the collections, heritage and art in Kirklees? ..the collections, heritage and art are used to create a sense of identity for Kirklees? ..cultural activities in museums and galleries are focused on improving health and well-being? ..museums and galleries have learning opportunities for people of all ages? Q5 Kirklees has a significant and wide ranging collection of objects, collected in the 19th and 20th centuries reflecting the history of the local area as well as some of world class quality eg Egyptology, Fine Art, Natural History, World Cultures. Using these collections, what stories do you want Kirklees Museums & Galleries to tell in the future? Please select up to five History of local towns, villages, communities Culture of Kirklees e.g music, sport, art and recreation How people lived and worked Local landscape, environment, plants and animals Famous and/or successful people from Kirklees Local industry and business and what they produced eg textiles, transport, Bamforth postcards Protest, politics, radicals and social reform eg: Luddites, Suffragettes Kirklees in prehistoric and ancient times e.g: fossils, Romans, Anglo Saxons Other - please state: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Q6 Do you think that Kirklees Museums and Galleries should in the future: Only collect and display collections that tell local history Collect and display local history plus examples of history, culture and nature from around the world Q7 Have you accessed information about Kirklees museums collections in any of these ways? Yes No Not sure Online Using our ‘Museum in a Box’ loan scheme Via exhibitions in Kirklees, in venues other than museums Via events in Kirklees, in venues other than museums (talks, activity sessions etc) Q8 Please let us know anything you think our draft Cultural Vision has missed: _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ About You This section asks you for some details about you. Please answer these questions as the information will help us to understand who has taken part, and any differences in views between groups. Your answers are completely confidential. Are you completing this questionnaire: as a Kirklees resident as a Kirklees Council employee on behalf of a local business as a member of a 'Friends' group as a local councillor a visitor from outside Kirklees in another capacity What is the first half of your postcode? (e.g. WF14) ___________________ Are you: Female Male What age are you? Under 18 18 - 24 25 - 34 35 - 44 45 - 54 55 - 64 65 and over Do you consider yourself to be disabled? Yes No What is your ethnic group? Asian / Asian British Black / Black British Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups White Other ethnic group Would you be interested in volunteering in your local museum in the future? Yes - please provide your email or postal address below so we can get in touch. We will only use this to send you info on museums and galleries volunteering opportunities. No Email address: ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Postal address: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________ Thank you for taking the time to share your views. Please return completed surveys to a Kirklees Museum or Gallery by 24 July 2016. Thank you .
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