Case Studies

Whether you are looking for examples of good practice or new ideas, we hope our ever-growing bank of case studies will inspire you. They include practical tips on organising, touring and hosting exhibitions, as well as new models for developing and funding exhibitions.

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Parker Harris: Are you looking for help to tour an exhibition?
Commercial

Parker Harris is an independent arts organisation established in 1990 by Emma Parker and Penny Harris. We specialise in creating, managing and promoting a wide variety of contemporary visual art exhibitions and…

Partnership Working: Journey to Justice and National Museums Liverpool
Collaborations and Partnerships

Why the International Slavery Museum (ISM) and Journey to Justice (JtoJ) ISM highlights the international importance of enslavement and slavery, both in a historic and modern context. Working in partnership with other organisations…

Pirates, Pants and Wellyphants – The Illustrated World of Nick Sharratt
Learning and Participation

Exhibition Background In early 2013, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, darts, Doncaster and The Civic in Barnsley worked together to submit a funding application to Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Fund. The…

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Jacqueline Ayer
Design and Display

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration House of Illustration, based in King’s Cross, London, is the UK’s only public gallery and education space dedicated solely to illustration. We have a dynamic programme of changing…

Resonance – Reflections on the Great War Through Artworks Inspired by Staffordshire Collections
Collaborations and Partnerships

‘Resonance’ toured seven Staffordshire museums during 2015 and 2016 as part of the county’s commemorations for the Great War centenary. Organised by Staffordshire Museum Service on behalf of the Staffordshire Museums Strategic…

Rhyme Around the World – A Nursery Rhyme Exhibition
Design and Display
Touring an Exhibition

Exhibition Background One of Seven Stories’ founders, Elizabeth Hammill, holds a long-standing enthusiasm for nursery rhymes and a strong belief in their importance in the culture of childhood. She is fascinated by what…

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: Touring an exhibition
Touring an Exhibition

Exhibition: Aerofilms: A History of Britain from Above Touring Exhibitions Author: Nicola Roberts, Public Engagement Officer, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales The touring exhibitions Aerofilms: A History of Britain…

Scarborough Museums Trust: Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!
Collaborations and Partnerships

Scarborough Museums Trust Scarborough Museums Trust manages two key venues, the Rotunda Museum (predominantly focussing on geology), and Scarborough Art Gallery. The first floor of the Art Gallery is used as a temporary…

Science Projects Ltd
Commercial

Science Projects Ltd is best known now as a designer and fabricator of interactive exhibitions, with clients across the globe commissioning anything from small individual interpretive exhibits, to entire gallery fit-outs. But…

Seven Stories: Digital interpretation for touring
Learning and Participation

Exhibition: Brains: The Mind as Matter Venues: Wellcome Collection and Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Authors: Danny Birchall, Wellcome Collection, London. / Emma Thom, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. Enid Blyton was one…

Short Circuit
Collaborations and Partnerships

Short Circuit is an ambitious international touring group show devised by British Independent Curator, Aly Grimes, and consists of nine new media artists and collectives in an attempt to re-assess the archetypal…

Small Stories from Seven Stories – The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Collaborations and Partnerships

Exhibition Background As custodians of Judith Kerr’s archive we continually receive a large number of requests for loans of Judith’s artwork. Having been exhibited twice at Seven Stories and toured the UK for…

Southend Museums Service: Touring exhibition on a budget
Funding

Exhibition: Beauty and the Beach Venue: Southend Museums Service Author: Ciara Phipps, Assistant Curator of Social History, Southend Museums Service www.southendmuseums.co.uk Southend Museums Service’s swimwear collection is the largest and most comprehensive in the country,…

Spiceworld: The Exhibition
Touring an Exhibition

As the 20th anniversary of the Spice Girls’ first number one hit Wannabe approaches, specialist collector and visual artist Liz West describes the origins of her Spiceworld touring exhibition and her experience…

Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Princes Tour of India 1875-76, a Royal Touring Exhibition.
Collaborations and Partnerships

Introduction Sonja Kielty gives an example of successful partnership working between Bradford Museums and Galleries, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester and the Royal Collection Trust, in a recent exhibition of Prince…

The Civic, Barnsley, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, The Point, Doncaster: Collaborative touring exhibition
Collaborations and Partnerships

Venue: The Civic, Barnsley, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, The Point, Doncaster Author: David Sinclair, Exhibitions Curator www.barnsleycivic.co.uk Involvement in the Showstoppers project has been an invaluable learning curve professionally and personally. At the…

The Civic: Why do you hire touring exhibitions?
Hiring an Exhibition

Venue: The Civic, Barnsley Author: David Sinclair, Exhibitions Curator www.barnsleycivic.co.uk Supplementing the exhibition programme with touring exhibitions for The Civic is imperative. Some curators might regard a touring exhibition as a safe option that does…

The Design Museum: The Waste Age effect – how one exhibition can catalyse change
Sustainability

Topic: The Waste Age effect – how one exhibition can catalyse change Author: Elise Foster Vander Elst, Head of Exhibitions and Environmental Impact Lead, the Design Museum Exhibition: Waste Age: What Can Design Do?,…

THE HERDS: Climate action in practice at museums and galleries across the UK
Collaborations and Partnerships
Community Engagement
Learning and Participation
Sustainability

THE HERDS is a public art and climate action on an unprecedented scale. Herds of life-size puppet animals created in renewable and recyclable materials are journeying 12,000 miles through Africa and Europe,…

The National Gallery, London: Art on Your Doorstep
Collaborations and Partnerships
Funding
Grants & Sponsorship
Touring on a Small Budget

Topic: An outdoor exhibition using facsimiles to engage audiences outside of the gallery Organisation: The National Gallery, London Exhibition: Art On Your Doorstep, across the UK from 2025 onwards Tour venues: Bethesda Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent City…

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