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documentation SVG archive 74 disk0/00/00/01/71 2021-11-18 14:23:40 2026-04-14 11:12:20 2021-11-18 14:23:40 data_collection show Poulovassilis Alexandra Birkbeck Candlin Fiona Birkbeck 0000-0002-6495-4618 Ballatore Andrea Birkbeck 0000-0003-3477-7654 Katerinchuk Valeri Birkbeck Larkin Jamie Birkbeck Larson Nick Birkbeck Liebenrood Mark Birkbeck 0000-0002-4313-9366 HS CMS hafvm csis public UK museums, Mapping museums These files contain the data, metadata and schema diagrams of the database produced by the AHRC-funded Mapping Museums project, 2016-2021, as of the end of the funded project on 30th September 2021. The data relates to UK museums that were open between 1960 and 2020. 2021-10-08 Birkbeck College, University of London 10.18743/DATA.00171 ahrc Mapping Museums yes 2031-11-18 Well documented dataset supporting large project. klab metadata_and_data_files duplicate_title_170 duplicate_title Duplicate Dataset Title to <a href="https://researchdata.bbk.ac.uk/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&amp;eprintid=170">Mapping Museums Data, September 2021</a> <br xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>User Workarea, <a href="https://researchdata.bbk.ac.uk/cgi/users/home?screen=User::View&amp;userid=74"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Alex Poulovassilis</span></span></a> - [ <a href="#" onclick="return issues2_retire( 170 );" class="ep_issues2_retire">Manage</a> ] [ <a href="#" onclick="return issues2_compare( $(this).up(3).readAttribute('eprintid'), 170 );" class="ep_issues2_compare">Compare &amp; Merge</a> ] [ <a href="#" onclick="if( issues2_ack( $(this).up(3).readAttribute('eprintid'), $(this).up(1).readAttribute('ep_issue_list_id')) ) { $(this).up(1).setStyle( { 'font-style': 'italic', 'color': '#bbbbbb' } ); }" class="ep_issues2_ack">Acknowledge</a> ] 2021-11-18 23:02:16 discovered Please refer to https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/sources for a detailed list of the primary sources of data. In order to develop the Mapping Museums database, we needed to compile a dataset of all UK museums that had been open at any point between 1960 and 2020, and to list their main attributes: accreditation status, location (both postal address and administrative location), governance, size, subject matter, year of opening and year of closing (if applicable). We drew on a wide range of sources to do so: In the first instance, we focused on the Digest of Museum Statistics (DOMUS), a major survey of accredited museums that was conducted between 1994 and 1999. The archived survey consists of hundreds of encoded spreadsheets that all contain information about the museums in question, but addresses are on one sheet, the names of the museum on another, visitor numbers on a third and so on. In addition, all the information is in code. We translated the numerical codes into words and reassembled the DOMUS data from its constituent parts. We then removed entities that did not refer to a single museum (e.g. references to overarching bodies such as the Science Museum Group), dummy entries, and redundant information such as fax numbers and company numbers. Having manually reassembled and cleaned the DOMUS data, we then began to add data from the other contemporary and historical datasets. In the first instance we used data from official government surveys, such as the 1963 Standing Commission Survey of Provincial Museums, and the current ACE accreditation data, and then we began to add membership data from the Association of Independent Museums and the Museum Association. Thereafter we used a range of sources, adding information from historic and specialist guidebooks and gazetteers, from tourist boards, and from web searches. Digital resources such as the BBC’s 1986 Domesday project, were useful and the discovery of an unpublished survey of members and non-members conducted by the Association of Independent Museums in 1983 was particularly important in developing a substantial body of information on small independent museums of that period. As we collected new data, we added new museums to the dataset and also new information on the museums we had already included. In many instances, it was extremely difficult to find detailed information about specific museums. We might know that a museum had been open at some point in the 1980s but not know exactly when it opened or closed, or what subject it had covered. Appeals for information were repeatedly put out on social media but personal contact proved the most effective means of finding missing information. In the last few months of the data collection, the team made hundreds of telephone calls and sent hundreds of emails to museum staff, local history societies, tourist boards, town clerks, and other relevant organisations to find and establish the missing details. We continue to update the Mapping Museums database with new information, as it becomes known. The gradual accumulation of information in our database, as described under Data Collection Method, was accompanied in parallel by validation of the source material. As various museum datasets were incorporated into our own dataset, the existing data was either corroborated or contested. In the latter case, we contacted the museums or cross checked with other sources as required to resolve the disagreement in the data. When a data source was old or the date of the source was uncertain we checked if the museum was still open. In some cases museums that have closed still have an extant website so we looked to see if news and events pages had been updated. TripAdvisor was also useful as it records when visitors went to particular sites, and hence indicates whether it is open or has possibly closed. This approach was also used, to a lesser extent, with smaller, specialised web-forums where contributors occasionally posted questions or reminiscences about particular museums. The Museum Development Network provided robust external review of our data. We took regional data to each of the nine Museum Development groups in England, and they conducted a line-by-line scrutiny of the data. They were able to provide a local knowledge of both recent developments in their area (openings or closure) and to check our classifications. Staff at the national offices for museums in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales similarly scrutinised the data, as did some specialist and subject groups. We provided our full dataset on regimental museums to the Regimental Museums liaison officers at the National Army Museums who provided comparative information, which allowed us to re-check that sector, and our dataset on transport museums to the Transport Museums Trust who further edited and refined data on museums from that category. United Kingdom Not applicable 2016-10-01 2021-09-30 1960-01-01 2021-09-30 https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/glossary https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/aboutapp project https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31702 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28052 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/26122 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/28263