Museumpic
Today Arts Council England announced that the eight accredited University of Cambridge Museums (UCM), led by The Fitzwilliam Museum, have been successful in their bid for significant funding over the next three years as a Renaissance Major partner. The UCM bid was rated "outstanding" on all five major criteria. UCM is one of 16 Major partner museums nationwide which will together receive £20 million a year in funding. This is to support UCM's mission to become a world-class centre of excellence for museum research, outreach, and learning for all ages. The UCM bid focused on unlocking the university's world-class collections, and the research activities which underpin them, to a larger and more diverse audience. While strong emphasis was placed on the university museums working with each other, the bid also recognised that these partnerships are themselves strengthened by the different identities and remits of each of the eight museums, and are further enhanced by working more widely with museums and cultural communities across Cambridgeshire and beyond. Since 2003, The Fitzwilliam Museum has been the Cambridgeshire lead for the East of England's Renaissance in the Regions programme, funded by the former Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) to strengthen and build capacity in regional museums.
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