OpenCulture

OK, so it’s been a little while since I’ve been able to update you about the development of our Digital Agency (see previous post on this topic), but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy!

Following extensive consultation and some really valuable comments and contributions from colleagues in the sector, we have refined the scope of the proposal, and are now nearly ready to launch it at the forthcoming COLLECT2010 event on the 28th June.

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As I may have mentioned before, the next few years look set to be challenging for museums. We don’t yet know what proportion of the impending public sector spending cuts will fall on museums. But we do know that the cuts will come, and with them a different way of working for museums and museum professionals across the country.

Times like these call for big ideas. No matter how harshly the winds of political favour turn against Culture, the interests of museums and their audiences are best served not by protecting what is, but by reimagining what could be.

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