£1m invested in research on UK museum closures

This article was originally posted on Museums and Heritage Advisor.

A research project collecting data on the closures of UK museums has been awarded £1m from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to continue its work.

The Mapping Museum research project was first devised in response to the absence of coherent data on the expansion of museums in the UK. It subsequently collected and collated data from over 4,000 museums to analyse how the sector changed between 1960 and 2020.

The Mapping Museums research team will use the new funding for its next project, ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’.