The 24 Hour Museum (24HM) website has gradually built its audience and profile since launching in 1999. We now reach over 750,000 visitors each month and the site covers activities in over 3,500 cultural institutions around the UK.
Thanks to funding from the Department for Education and Science (DfES) we are now able to begin rebuilding our site and plan to issue a tender for the work this summer. The DfES see this funding as a way to help us develop our role as an online ‘cultural broker’ for the museum and gallery sector.
This opportunity could not come at a better time. The Internet is going through rapid growth and change and the web of the future is full of opportunities for both 24HM and the cultural sector as a whole.
On June 5 2006 we held a consultation meeting in London with an invited audience from the museum, library and archive sector to explain the background to the redevelopment of the site. The process will begin at the end of summer 2006.
A big thank you to everyone who came along and gave us feedback and ideas. If you weren’t able to get along to the meeting, below you will find copies of the presentations and links to other relevant information.
We are keen to widen the discussion about our redevelopment and would be happy to hear from you if you’d like to give us your views or complete our feedback form.
If you have any other questions or comments please send them to Ruth Cobb -
ruth@24hourmuseum.org.uk
