Review of Museum Development

Arts Council England invests in the Museum Development Programme to support the resilience and ambition of England's non-National museums within the Accreditation Scheme. The programme is delivered across England through a nationally-funded programme of nine grants across the nine regions.

We are seeking a supplier, or suppliers, to review the current Museum Development Survey, by which the Museum Development programme collects data annually from museums in each region, with the objective of ensuring it is fit-for-purpose and can deliver insight on the health of the museum sector effectively at both national and regional levels, as well as for individual institutions and people working in support of the museum sector . The intention is to launch the reviewed survey in Summer 2020.

This work contributes to recommendation 15 within the Mendoza Review of museums, November 2017 which requests that Arts Council: Collect and disseminate key data on the sector and its health, including audience, workforce, income, indicators of resilience, and expenditure data, to inform policy making and funding, and to provide benchmarking information to museums.