We are beginning an exciting new project at 24 Hour Museum and over the next three months, and are hoping to contact as many galleries, studios and visual arts organisations as we can.

This initiative has been funded by the Arts Council National Visual Arts programme for the next three years.

Why us?

Our mission is joined up thinking. We work across sectors, government departments and funding bodies, to make connections between different parts of the cultural sector both in our sector-facing and public-facing work. We bring agencies together, we fuse them, and we publicise their output.

What do we do?

* We publish articles daily about arts and heritage in the UK. Our site gets at least one million visitors a month, from all over the UK and internationally
* We provide a marketing platform by enabling galleries and artist groups to list their own events, exhibitions, educational resources and information via our free Direct Data Entry system (DDE)
* We syndicate data from these sources to our other websites including Show Me (our children's site) and City Heritage Guides as well as other external websites and agencies including VisitBritain

24 Hour Museum is going through a radical change at the moment - one that will see the word 'museum' disappear from our name and a new site emerge, reflecting the depth and breadth of contemporary and historical culture in the UK.

We have a whole new dedicated Arts section featuring Contemporary Art - and need arts organisations - and particularly studios and arts venues - to engage with us to make it happen.

The new site launches early next year, and in the months preceding that, we aim to get as many institutions up and running with DDE as possible.

To make this happen, we would like to contact as many galleries, studios and visual arts organisations as we can - directly or indirectly - and get them set up with entries in our database together with usernames and passwords so that they can begin to enter their events and make use of the 24 Hour Museum's facilities.

What can you do?

1. Nominate someone for us to talk to at your venue.
2. Get a username and password
3. Add your details to the site
4. Add your upcoming events
5. Send us your press releases
6. Stick at it! Like all marketing, the key to
making it work is consistency.