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 What is Renaissance?
Renaissance is MLA Council’s national £300 million programme to transform England's regional museums. For the first time ever, investment from central government is helping regional museums across the country to raise their standards and deliver real results in support of education, learning, community development and economic regeneration.
Strategic partnerships are fundamental to the delivery of Renaissance North West. The six Hub venues together with the Renaissance North West team are developing new ways of working and collaborating to extend the benefit of Renaissance resources throughout the region.
Renaissance also supports museums in Greater Manchester, Preston, Cheshire, Merseyside and Cumbria to increase their capacity to develop education, audience development and marketing initiatives, and their impact in terms of regional economic strategies to deliver initiatives including:
Collections for the Future in the North West
The Collections for the Future Steering Group is responsible for developing issues arising from the Museums Association’s 2005 Collections for the Future report. The Group oversees the region’s Renaissance plans concerned with collections care, management, review, interpretation and Accreditation advice, with a view to widening access and user engagement.
The group delivers the Collections for the Future and more recently the Effective Collections agendas via three strands of investment: supporting posts, provision of small grants, and a programme of events & training that stimulate debate around collections issues, including the Curating for the Future conference.
 Sharing practice
Renaissance North West produces publications about some of the projects and initiatives that we support. These are attached below and include:
A booklet, supported by the Collections for the Future Steering Group, about the innovative collections review pilot project in the North West. What's in Store?
Two leaflets - one developed with Manchester Children’s Services and the second developed with the Preston Museums & Schools Partnership - about how teachers can work with museums and galleries to improve pupil’s literacy. MAGPIE literacy leaflet
Preston Literacy Leaflet
Shared Interest Report
The research report that demonstrates the impact of the 'MAGPIE' (Museums And Galleries Project in Education) programme and how working with museums and galleries raises children's attainment at Key Stage 2. MAGPIE research report
Write On is a guide for teachers and museum educators that describes how museums and galleries can be used to improve pupils' literacy. Write On literacy booklet
'Close Encounters with Culture' is a publication that outlines how museums and galleries in the North West and the South West are working in partnership with early years practitioners and the impact that this work has on the learning and development of young children. Early Years publication
An toolkit that outlines how the Manchester Museums Consortium has developed the 'Pathways & Progression' programme for secondary school pupils. Pathways & Progression toolkit
An evaluation report that demonstrates the impact of the above programme. Pathways & Progression research report
A research report called Outside In - Inside Out: A collaborative exploration into community experience of museums in the North West of England Outside In report
A research report called Creative Spaces: Children as co-researchers in the design of museum and gallery learning Creative Spaces report and a booklet that disseminates the report's findings Creative Spaces
A research report by NIACE that demostrated the impact of the Renaissance North West family learning programmes NIACE report and a booklet developed in partnership with NIACE about developing and supporting family learning in museums and galleries Family Learning booklet
If you would like a paper copy of any of these publications, contact Alex Bird (contact details at right).
Renaissance North West Newsletters
To read issues of the quarterly newsletter, click on the links below. To be added to our newsletter mailing list, contact Alex Bird.
October 09 newsletter
April 09 newsletter
Jan 09 newsletter
October 08 Newsletter
July 08 Newsletter
April 08 Newsletter
January 08 Newsletter
October 07 Newsletter
July 07 Newsletter
April 07 Newsletter
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