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The Art Fund believes that everyone should have the opportunity to experience great art at first hand, and has been campaigning energetically on behalf of museums and galleries from its earliest years.
As an independent, membership-based charity which receives no funding from government, the Art Fund is uniquely well placed to help shape arts policy and speak out on behalf of museums and their visitors.
The Art Fund campaigns under three broad headings:
- to promote acquisitions
- to secure proper government funding for museums
- to promote the widest possible public access to works of art
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Collecting Challenge 2010 29 April 2010 The Art Fund has released the results of its Collecting Challenge 2010 survey looking at the acquiring habits of museums and galleries. 276 UK museums took part in the research between January and March 2010. This is an update on the original Collecting Challenge survey which took place in 2006. The picture found that in the past five years staffing and financial worries are continuing to have an effect on museums’ collecting activities. However, some interesting innovation has been seen such as an increase in borrowing between institutions to keep their displays fresh and also a rise in the number of museums that are working together to make some ambitious joint acquisitions. Read the press release |
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Museum Survey Results: Spring 2009 and Autumn 2009 In 2009 the Art Fund conducted the first two of its museum surveys looking at the way in which the recession affected UK Art Galleries and Museums. The factsheets summarizing the findings of the surveys and the related press releases can be found here. Art Fund Museum Survey - Press Release - April 2009 |
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Update on Southampton's proposed sale of artworks 21 December 2009 The Art Fund is pleased by Southampton City Council’s decision not to proceed with the proposed sale of art works from Southampton City Art Gallery in order to fund the development of the city’s Cultural Quarter. Whilst we are supportive of the city’s plans to enhance its cultural provision, the Art Fund views that raising the funds by selling important artworks from its collection would set a dangerous precedent. We very much hope the Council can find alternative sources of funding for the new Cultural Quarter and that its significant public art collections are kept in trust for the benefit of all. |
