Candlin, Fiona The UK museums boom (and what happened next). In: University of Essex, History of Art department seminar, 01 Nov 2023, Colchester, UK. (Unpublished)
Abstract
During the late-twentieth century there was a significant increase in the number of museums in the UK. Yet, apart from the highly polemic heritage debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the boom was not investigated in any detail. There was no firm information on its location or character, or indeed on what happened next. The Mapping Museums project was devised to remedy that situation. Between 2016 and 2022 we collected and analysed data on over 4,000 museums, and conducted detailed interviews with the founders of the new museums. In this lecture Prof Fiona Candlin, the project lead, outlines what we learned. She will consider the make-up of the sector, the rise of micromuseums, and examine why ordinary people with no previous experience of museums felt compelled to open their own venue.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Fiona Candlin |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2025 13:21 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2025 13:21 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52968 |
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