Measuring Up

Museum Development London has worked with Arts Council England, their contractors Counting What Counts and Museum Development England to create a streamlined, non-NPO museum approach to the Impact and Insight Toolkit.

This programme has £8,000 (four initial grants of £2,000) to allocate to London’s non-national, non-NPO museums in 2024–2027.

This year’s programme will support museums to develop an exhibition and use a nationally-piloted online platform to evaluate the exhibition's quality using self-assessments, peer reviews and audience surveys.

Museums will then be able to apply for a further grant to address comments raised to inform the museum’s overall visitor experience.

Museums will be intensely supported by the Museum Development Officer for Audiences throughout the programe.

In February 2022, we launched year one and year two of our Measuring Up programme. These grants focused on enabling museums to develop, evaluate and analysis the quality of the exhibitions and events they were producing using the online evaluation platform, the Impact and Insight Toolkit.

MDL funded and supported the following museums:

Bruce Castle Museum
The View, Epping Forest Visitor Centre
Cartoon Museum
Florence Nightingale Museum
Freud Museum
Fulham Palace

Projects were completed in March 2024. Detailed case studies of the completed projects are coming soon.