What we are doing
The Hub is working in partnership with other museums and organisations in the region to provide better services which more people want to use. It is doing this through an extensive programme of activity designed to:
Raise standards in care of collections and curatorial knowledge
Ensure that collections are relevant and accessible to the communities they serve
Provide extensive opportunities for learning of all kinds, through events, schools programmes, exhibitions and outreach activities.Renaissance aims to make regional museums great centres of life and learning, closely connected to their localities, which attract high numbers of visitors.
You can read more about what Renaissance achieved in the East of England in 2008-09 by clicking on the Summary of Activity below:
Current plans: 2009-11
You can read a summary of the current business plan below. There are 3 versions - the first provides an overview and is aimed at readers within the museum sector, the second is for readers outside the sector and the third gives a more detailed project-by-project breakdown.
See some examples of what we are doing in the following areas:
Our vision:
Users are at the centre of all the museum does; they represent diverse communities and receive a high quality experience through engagement with collections.
Museums support regeneration, sustainable communities and community cohesion agendas within their localities.
Collections comprising real evidence of the cultural and natural history of people and places are prized and understood as a unique legacy to be cherished, developed, challenged and celebrated
Knowledge and expertise is shared between institutions and all communities, where users bring their own experience and meanings to objects, and specialist staff actively facilitate learning, discovery and research.
Museums are learning organisations, where all staff are developing themselves and their practice to support a changing context to their work.
The workforce is representative of the diverse communities it serves
Partnership working is key to the development of services with and for users.