National Lottery Grants for Heritage – £250,000 to £5million
Going Places responds directly to museums’ needs for more sustainable and collaborative ways of exhibiting, supporting them to share their collections with one another.
Six museum networks spanning the breadth of the UK – from Edinburgh to Penzance and Lisburn to Carmarthen – will co-create 12 major touring exhibitions over the next five years, which will be reimagined by each partner museum into a total of 40 unique exhibitions.
Local communities will work with expert curators and play a vital role in shaping each exhibition, helping to reinterpret collections in ways that reflect new voices, experiences and stories.
Jenny Waldman, Director, Art Fund, said: “As we continue our fundraising towards this programme to make the biggest impact for museums, we are immensely grateful to The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Julia Rausing Trust for their very generous support for this programme, which will pave the way for a more open and resourceful future for exhibition making.”
The programme builds on recommendations from the 2022 research report Going places: Touring and shared exhibitions in the UK, commissioned by Art Fund and Creative Scotland. The report identified that shared touring models are key to increasing access to high-quality exhibitions and building the long-term sustainability of museums across the UK.
