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.
- Enriching art via cell phone In Baltimore, museums are using mobile phone technology to deliver information to visitors in a way that both uses a platform with which they are already comfortable, and a means of enabling people to share hteir opinions with each other. 16th August 2007
- Visitor numbers soar at Britain's free museums and galleries | | Guardian Unlimited Arts Visitor numbers to museums rise again, and comedian Frank Skinner aims to 'persuade people of the benefits of going into a gallery, even for a short time and even if it is just to get out of the rain' 4th December 2006