- Ensuring that children have the opportunity to enjoy a vibrant cultural and sporting life
- Opening institutions to the widest possible cross section of people
- Ensuring that the creative, leisure and tourist industries provide the maximum possible benefit to the economy
- Ensuring our museums and galleries are exciting, modern and provide real value for money
By focusing on these objectives we aim to improve education, social cohesion, regional regeneration, the quality of our institutions and our cultural life.
This section of our website details the various programmes, measures and organisations we have put in place to fulfil these objectives.
Future plans
In January 2005 we published the consultation paper Understanding the future: museums and 21st century life with the aim of stimulating a debate on the issues surrounding the Museums and Galleries sector. The responses to the consultation strongly favoured the creation of a national strategy that would embrace the whole sector.
The collaborative working group have now reached their conclusions and the following consultation document - 'Understanding the Future: Priorities for England’s Museums' was published on 23 October 2006.
More information and copies of the published documents, responses to the original consultation and the minutes of the collaborative working group can be found under this channel.
News
A summary report of the evaluation conducted by Leicester University into the DCMS/DCSF National/Regional Museum Education Programme known as "Strategic Commissioning" has been published. [22 October 2007]
From 19 March 2007, the British Museum will provide certain services to the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport in relation to the performance of her functions under the Treasure Act. These services will include the valuation of treasure finds, the invoicing of museums, the payment of rewards and supporting the Treasure Valuation Committee.
A copy of the agreement is available in the publications section of our website.
