Blog archive

2024

• Getting stuck with museum closure research
• Museum Detectives
• Afterlives of Objects
• Trains, planes, and automobiles – how much do we know about where collections go?
• Museum closures and deprivation
• New data on UK Museum Closure 2000–2024: Governance and region
• Mapping Museums data used by ONS
• Museum Maps at the Royal Geographical Society
• The afterlife of museum collections

2023

• Funding success for the Mapping Museums team
• Letter on Museum Closure

2022

• Was there a ‘swing to the digital’? Museums and social media in the pandemic
• The UK Museums Boom (and what happened next)
• More openings and closings in the pandemic
• Museum reopening after lockdown in the UK nations
• Accreditation, size, and museum reopening after lockdown
• Museum governance and reopening after lockdown
• Long closures after lockdown
• Museum websites: What can they tell us?

2021

• New museums opening during the pandemic
• Mapping Museums is Dead. Long Live Mapping Museums
• Micromuseums in the pandemic
• Funding for UK museums during the pandemic
• Museum closure during the pandemic
• New Activist Museums
• Museums in the Pandemic: Risk, closure, and resilience
• Opening a Museum
• Meet the founders and archive launch

2020

• A week in the life
• Being there
• The Mapping Museums Campervan tour: a catalogue of mechanical collapse
• Visiting micromuseums in a pandemic
• Why did so many ordinary people set up their own museums?
• Types of museum closure
• Coronavirus and Museum Resilience: Some preliminary observations
• The Mapping Museums Website and Database is Now Live
• Going Public
• New publications

2019

• Finding museum founders
• Small museums in a global context
• The Museum of Rail Travel, Keighley
• King Edward Mine, Cornwall
• Subjects that Matter
• Mapping Museums Website Evaluation 2019
• On the road with the Mapping Museums Project
• Nidderdale Museum, Yorkshire
• Horwich Heritage Centre, Lancashire
• Aldbourne Heritage Centre
• An Arts Scholar Learns about Administrative Geography and Datasets
• Mapping Museums Database: New Developments
• Blue Town Heritage Centre, Sheerness
• The Rifles Museum, Winchester
• Kent and Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum, Hever
• The Micro Museum, Ramsgate

2018

• The Flower Makers Museum, Hastings
• How big is that museum?
• Missing, massaged, and just wrong: Problems with visitor numbers
• Two Years On: An Update
• Modelling Patchy Data
• Historic Buildings: In or Out of the Surveys?
• Participate in our web application evaluation sessions!
• The Camera Museum
• Bournemouth Transport Museum
• Gloucester Folk Museum
• Big Four Railway Museum
• Unknown Opening Dates – Museums
• Unknown Opening Dates – Historic Houses
• Datchworth Museum
• Basket Museum
• David Mellor Design Museum
• Freddie Fox Museum
• Mapping Museums: Preliminary results on UK museum closure, 1960-2017
• National Fencing Museum
• The Bakelite Museum on film
• Hopewell Colliery
• Buxton Transport Museum
• The Douglas Museum
• Football Museums
• Upload!
• Edinburgh Wax Museum
• The Spalding Bird Museum
• Workshop: Museums Futures in a Time of Austerity
• Grange Cavern Military Museum
• Galleries without collection: in or out of the surveys?
• Haxted Water Mill Museum

2017

• Guernsey Tomato Museum
• Dinting Railway Centre
• The Teddy Bear Museum
• The Micro Museum
• Wigston Framework Knitters Museum
• Cheltenham College Museum
• Armstrong’s Household and Farming Museum
• Surveying museums: What’s in and what’s out?
• National Butterfly Museum
• Torbay Aircraft Museum
• Defining Museums
• Bear Gardens Museum
• Sandwich Doll Museum
• Picking the Brains of the Museum Development Network
• Send and Ripley Museum
• Telecom Technology Showcase
• One Year On: The Principal Investigator’s View
• Dufftown Whisky Museum
• The Ark Museum
• Mapping Museums: Why bother?
• Museum of British Transport
• House of Wax
• Adamston Agricultural Museum
• Birmingham Nature Centre
• The Button Museum? It’s fastenating.
• Plummer Tower Museum
• Fraserburgh Heritage Centre
• Building the Database
• The Smallest Museum in the UK?
• Interdisciplinarity
• AIM! I’m going to map forever…
• Getting Started: Compiling the Data
• Problems with the Data
• Not Knowing About Museums