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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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?,…
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,…
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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