Funding for three touring exhibitions as part of network

Museums journal # Funding for three touring exhibitions as part of network Profile image for Eleanor Mills Hair, Untold Stories was the inaugural exhibition set up by the Magnet network, shown here on display at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in south London Arts Council England and Art Fund have announced a £336,000 grant for touring projects for the Museums and Galleries Network for Exhibition Touring (Magnet). [...] The funding will help develop and tour three new exhibitions opening in 2025, £75,000 of which will be put towards a three-year full-time network coordinator post. Magnet comprises 12 partners from across England, as well as the Touring Exhibitions Group (TEG), to co-develop new exhibitions that will tour between partner venues. One of Magnet’s key aims to address the unsustainability of “single use” exhibitions, as well as to share collections more widely and for more people to see them. [...] The three collections-based exhibitions that will be developed with the funding are: Magnet secured the funding following the successful pilot of its inaugural exhibition, Hair: Untold Stories, which opened at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in south London in December 2022 before touring to Tullie House in Carlisle, and is currently at Weston Park Museum in Sheffield. This pilot phase of was funded by Art Fund as a strategic partner.