Major Partner Museums funding creates cultural jobs for the Humber Region

Funding released to the Humber Museums Partnership as part of Arts Council England’s Major Partner Museums programme is helping to create seventeen new roles for the Humber region.

The seventeen roles, spread across different projects at the Ferens Art Gallery, Wilberforce House Museum, Hull Maritime Museum, The Treasure House in Beverley, The North Lincolnshire Museum and Normanby Hall in North Lincolnshire, will help further develop the Humber’s region’s reputation for cultural excellence in the build-up to the City of Culture in 2017.

Hull, along with local authority run museums and historic houses across the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, form the Humber Museums Partnership. Last year the partnership achieved Major Partner Museums status  & funding following its highly successful £1 million ‘Joining Up The Humber Museums’ initiative, which saw collaborative exhibitions, roadshows and educational projects taking place right across the Humber region.

“Everyone working in the cultural sector knows that centrally-funded budgets are facing real cuts, and so those managing museums and historic collections need to look to work smartly to ensure that they continue to deliver world-class cultural experiences.  Our work as part of the Joining Up The Humber Museums Partnership demonstrated that we can do this on a region-wide scale, so we were delighted to receive the Major Partnership Museums accolade from Arts Council England.  Under the banner of the Humber Museums Partnership, this brings more funding to our region to enable continued collaboration and an even greater depth of community involvement in the stunning collections held across the region,” comments Director of Cultural Services for Hull Culture & Leisure, Simon Green.

The amount to be released as part of the package is still to be confirmed, as funds available to Arts Council England will be reviewed in the coming months following the first budget of the new government.  However, funding is secure for these seventeen roles for curatorial staff and technicians for a full year, with the option to renew once the Arts Council England funding is confirmed.

For more information on the roles, please search for ‘Hull’ on www.museumsjobs.com

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Notes to editors:  Humber Museums Partnership are one of 21 Major Partner Museums announced by Arts Council England to receive funding of £22.6 million in the year 2015/16. 

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