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• Cultural education charity
• Leading website for people interested in art in UK public collections
• Platform shared by over 3,000 UK public art collections
Who are we?
• Make art accessible – for enjoyment, learning and research
• Enable global audiences to learn about the nation’s art
• Support public collections to share their art
Our mission
What’sIncluded
Leslie Arthur Wilcox (1904 - 1982)
Somerset (British Railways poster artwork)
National Railway Museum
3,290 Collection Locations
MuseumorGallery
PublicBuilding
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HistoricHouseorCastle
LibraryorArchive
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Other
SharedDigital Infrastucture
John Currie (1883 – 1914)Mark Gertler (1891 – 1939)
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
artuk.org
Database of artworks
3,000+ Participating Collections
Collection Portal and Permissions Portal
ShopArt
Detective
Tagger
Audiences
Malcolm Drummond (1880 – 1945)19, Fitzroy Street (Walter Richard Sickert’s studio)
Laing Art Gallery
Our Audience• 2.4 million unique users in last 12 months
• Growing 15% pa
• c.50% from overseas
• Personal interest or research accounts for c.70% of visits
• 22% use it to search for paintings of subject matter
• 7% use it to plan visits
Source: Google Analytics, Nov 18 Survey
Design: Curation Tool
This shows the proposed interface
which allows users to edit their
albums before saving and/or
publishing to the site.
Note it allows user to set top-level,
work specific descriptions and
custom date fields which will in turn
drive views such as slideshows and
timelines.
Design: Curation Tool (continued)
This second image shows the
timeline visualisation, one of the
options available to users when
publishing collections.
Shop
Samuel John Peploe (1871 – 1935)Interior with a Japanese Print
University of Hull Art Collection
COLLECTIONS ON THE ART UK SHOP• Bank of England• Barber Institute of Fine Art• Bradford Museums and Galleries• Bruce Castle Museum• Bushey Museum and Art Gallery• City of Edinburgh Council• City of London Corporation (Guildhall Art Gallery)• The Courtauld Gallery• Dorich House• Ferens Art Gallery; • Fife Cultural Trust (Fife Council)• Gainsborough’s House• Gallery Oldham• Gregynog Hall• The Highlanders Museum• Highlife Highlands• The L. S. Lowry Collection• Leicester Arts and Museums Service• Manchester Art Gallery• McLean Museum and Gallery• The Munnings Art Museum• Museums Sheffield• National Heritage Centre for Horseracing & Sporting Art, Palace House• National Library of Wales• National Museum Wales• National Museums Northern Ireland
• Nottingham City Museums (Nottingham City Council)• Oriel Môn• Penlee House Gallery & Museum• The Pier Arts Centre• Plymouth City Council: Museum and Art Gallery• PMSA• Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow• Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture• Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies• Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum• Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum• Salford Museum & Art Gallery• The Scout Association Heritage Service• Southend Museums Service• Staffordshire Museum & Art Collection• The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum• Tullie House• University of Dundee Art Collections• Valence House Museum• Victoria Museum and Gallery, Liverpool University• Wellcome Collection• Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust
Learning
Children from Chaddlewood school looking closely at the
Joshua Reynolds painting that visited them during
Masterpieces in Schools
‘I would be absolutely thrilled to take part in hosting an artwork through this programme. Given our
geographical location and the outlying nature of our community it is difficult for our students to have access
to works of art. It would certainly be appreciated by our pupils and staff.’
‘My school is rural and is over 100 miles from a major art gallery (Glasgow). The children do not have the
opportunity to engage with ‘real’ artists unless through an initiative such as your own.’
‘We are a very small rural school in a very picturesque area. Our nearest art gallery is nearly 100 miles away
in Glasgow which makes it difficult for our pupils to see art close up. We would be thrilled if we were chosen
for this project.’
‘It would be great for our pupils in Junior school to get the opportunity to see sculpture ‘in the flesh’.
Logistically and financially it is difficult to organise visits to galleries within the school day as many of our
pupils travel to school by bus or train and we need to be back by the end of the school day. For our pupils,
the ability to get up close and hands on with sculpture would be a positive and enriching experience.’
CONCLUSIONS
• We enable global audiences to learn about art in the UK
• Our digital infrastructure is shared by all UK public art collections
• No other country has such a resource
• Provides collections outside big cities major opportunities to
encourage cultural tourism, encourage learning and grow income
• Exploit its potential!