Knowledge and Inspiration
Museums, Libraries and Archives as the Natural Resources of a Creative Age
This project highlights the evidence for the central importance of museums, libraries and archives to our future. By understanding their role as a public service, delivering public value, it will demonstrate what the sector does in terms of values that are intrinsic, instrumental and institutional, and show what they mean in practice.
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council leads a sector that is at the forefront of democratisation and enfranchisement. The institutions within the sector have reinvented themselves from being passive repositories of the past, to become deliverers of social and economic value, playing an empowering role in a more participatory, multi-cultural and engaged society. The innovation that they have shown in enabling this, and the imagination that they inspire are essential stimuli to a creative Britain.
