Standards for touring exhibitions / Museums & Galleries Commission.

  • Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission
Date:
1995
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Standards for touring exhibitions / Museums & Galleries Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Foreword ‘The Museums and Galleries Commission advises Government on museum matters with the central aim of promoting museum and heritage interests, and raising museum standards.’ The Standards for Touring Exhibitions is one in a series of MGC publications aimed at raising museum standards. I have always believed that touring exhibitions should be an inherent part of museums’ services to the public. I much regretted the need, for financial reasons, to close down the MGC’s own Travelling Exhibitions Unit and I hope that the Touring Exhibitions Group and others are successful in their efforts to find new sources of funding. Touring exhibitions are an ideal way to increase public access to collections, enabling collections to reach far corners of the UK, and beyond. They are valuable both for attracting new visitors and for encouraging repeat visits. Touring can help to make an exhibition viable by enabling costs to be shared between several museums and they can also be attractive to potential funders. Touring exhibitions encourage cooperation between museums, disseminate good practice and stimulate collections research. Organising, receiving or lending to a touring exhibition involves a number of important considerations. This book presents a picture of best practice in these areas. Thanks are due to a great number of people. I hope that this book will enable many more people to share their experience and expertise in the creation of future touring exhibitions. Shirley Anglesey Vice Chairman, Museums and Galleries Commission
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