The Museum Sector in London

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The Museum Sector in London today

The lead body for the sector is MLA (Museums, Libraries, Archives Council) - http://www.mla.gov.uk/. The London section is here.

The Museums in each region are organised into a Hub lead by leading Museums. For example, the London Hub http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/sector/index.cfm?NavigationID=242 consists of the Museum of London, the London Transport Museum, the Horniman Museum and the Geffrye Museum. It was set up by the Government as part of their 'Renaissance in the Regions' policy. The Hub maintain a set of Museum Development Officers who can offer advice. The Government's lead body is the Department for Culture, Media and Sports (http://www.culture.gov.uk/). Museum Staff are represented by the Museums Association. http://www.museumsassociation.org Independent museums by AIM http://www.aim-museums.co.uk/

The Culture24 http://www.culture24.org.uk/home is the 'national virtual museum' and provides a 'portal' to Britain's Museums.

Advice on collections can be found on the Collection Link http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/ web site. For ICT, museum web site design and documentation follow this link. www.chr.org.uk/ict.htm

For small heritage lottery grants visit the Awards for All Site . For larger awards visit HLF. For London Government Grants http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/grants/default.htm For the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation click http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/main_f.htm.

For advice on planning Museum Exhibitions - Say it Differently. http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/SayingitdifferentlyAW.pdf For a group dedicated to interactivity in Museums - see http://www.big.uk.com/ For interpreters http://www.heritageinterpretation.org.uk/.

To find out more about Education in Museums visit the GEM web site http://www.hta.gov.uk/.

Do you want more tips for Marketing your museum http://www.museummarketingtips.com/ ? The Media Trust may help get Museum stories into the news. http://www.mediatrust.org/

To win a prize as the best museum - http://www.thegulbenkianprize.org.uk/ or http://www.heritageinterpretation.org.uk/

Information on museum copyright should visit http://www.museumscopyright.org.uk/. To display human remains in a Museum display http://www.hta.gov.uk/

Links

On Saturday, September 4th it'll be The Archaeology & History of Southwark. It'll go from London BridgeTube, the Tooley Street exit at 10.45 am.

Recently published 'Divorced, Beheaded, Died' by Kevin Flude The history of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunk

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