We’re delighted to announce that key functions from the original Mapping Museums Lab database have now been fully integrated into our new web application.
We are very grateful to Art Fund for helping fund additional development work, which has enabled us to extend and strengthen the Mapping Museums Lab resource for the benefit of the wider museums and heritage community.
This update brings together, in one place, the rich data from our first major project — a comprehensive database of all museums open in the UK from 1960 to the present — with our second major strand of research: detailed information on museums that have closed, including reasons for closure and the outcomes for their collections. For the first time, users can seamlessly explore all the Mapping Museums Lab data in one site.
Responding to input from our sector evaluation sessions, the addition to the web application offers a more flexible and intuitive user experience. You can now:
- Search for individual museums using free text
- View detailed information for each museum
- Generate and search across lists of all museums in the database
- We’ve also refreshed and expanded our accreditation data. Records have been updated and accreditation numbers added, making it easier to track institutional status and align our data with other resources and sector standards.
Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, sector professional, or independent scholar, the new platform is designed to make the data more discoverable, usable, and interconnected than ever before. We look forward to seeing how you use it.
The original Mapping Museums database will no longer be updated.
One reply on “Major Changes to the Mapping Museums Lab Database”
Well done on moving all this over and expanding the data, it will be useful to have it available for reference.