Art Fund Survey released
The Art Fund has published its 2009 survey of British museums and galleries (PDF link). Visitors were broadly up during the warm months of 2009, with 20% of venues experiencing more than a 10% rise in visitors. Redundancy payments, a decline in overseas holidays, and the weak pound, all seem to have contributed. But this is against a background of funding cuts, declining investment income and business sponsorship, and higher utility bills. Paid staff are increasingly being replaced by unpaid volunteers…
“The rise in volunteers has mirrored a fall in paid posts”
There’s also a new report on children’s engagement with cultural activities (PDF link).
