Find out the results from our fourth and final survey for Culture Beyond Covid for Heritage: the Heritage Panel
Tags: Heritage, Museums, OutdoorsIn our latest guest blog, Niamh Kelly, Youth Ambassador at Reimagine, Remake, Replay writes about co-curation with audiences, and in this instance, with young people. Could it change museums' relationships with their audiences for the better?
Tags: COVID-19, Co-creation, Co-curation, Young People, Museums, HeritageThis 2016 report profiles the visitors to six Northern Irish museums.
This report from Culture24 explores after-hours events in museums and their role in the night-time economy.
Find out how NI heritage visitors have engaged with heritage organisations and sites since Covid and how you can use these insights to plan for the future.
Conversations and views from the public and the arts sector on what Arts Council England should focus on.
Find out the results from our first Culture Beyond Covid for Heritage: The Heritage Panel
Tags: Audience research, Culture Beyond Covid, Heritage, COVID-19This report from Arts Connect explores how people aged 10 to 19 relate to arts and culture.
What's the standard for digital marketing in the arts? Here are findings from a survey of 180 U.S. arts organisations by Capacity Interactive.
The Continuous Household Survey is an annual public survey done by the Northern Irish Government. Here's how to access the results, and why you should read it.
Spark ideas and reach solutions.
Surveys, postcode mapping, focus groups, and visitor profiling.
Take part in this online webinar to hear how you can support inclusive access to arts, museums and heritage.
The Kids in Museums Manifesto, created with input from children, young people, and families, offers simple guidelines for making museums and heritage sites more welcoming and enjoyable for all.
We sent Fiona off to Culture Geek in the sweltering London heat. Here's some of what she brought back - the best examples of games to engage audiences in galleries and museums
How Dorset County Museum used focus groups to make their museum more accessible for visitors with autism.
Author: Jack Welch, Medium
Thrive's visitor profiling project to learn more about the visitors to six Northern Ireland museums.
In 2018, six museums across Northern Ireland hosted late-night events to attract new audiences and change perceptions about museums.
This toolkit, created by Museums Association, will help you to measure and evaluate the positive impact your museum has on your community
In this podcast we hear from the museum guides and curators on what the process was actually like and how glad they are they done it!
Carrickfergus Museum transformed an empty space within their building into an area specifically designed for a new audience. We're looking at how they succeeded and how they integrated it into their regular programming.
When you're starting any kind of research - the first thing to do is to check what's already out there. Here are our top free online sources of audience information.
Read our second guest blog from the Changed Future series, written by Beth Frazer.
A toolkit to strengthen your relationship with audiences post-pandemic
Our former Client Relationships Exec Catherine talked to the person behind the hilarious (and informative) social media accounts of The Museum of English Rural Life. Read our case study to find out how they succeeded in diversifying their online audiences with a single tweet.
Tags: Social MediaWhen it comes to collecting audience data, free, non-ticketed spaces always ask us the same question: how can we learn more about the people who come through our doors without a ticketing system?
In this guest blog Alan Ballany of Culture Republic gives his thoughts on what stricter standards around data anonymisation mean for cultural organisations under GDPR.
A guest post from Robert Jones of brand consultancy firm Wolff Olins. Robert talks about how a clear purpose is becoming more and more essential for cultural organisations.
A run-down of all the ways to find out about your current and potential audiences. These range from simple and no-cost solutions, to more sophisticated box office systems.
Fiona Bell asks whether arts venues go out of their way to be truly welcoming to everyone - or are we in danger of simply talking the talk?
Read our third guest blog from the Changed Future series, written by Charmain Jones.
Tags: Guest blogIn this blog, our former Research Executive Victoria explores the different benefits of having a ticketing system.
Tags: Tickets, Box office, CRMHow and when does an interest in an artform translate into attending and participating in it? In June, our resident BOSS Eve attended the 'Interest Into Action' TEA Break session hosted by the Audience Agency. This session led Eve to doing some investigating into this concept of her own with some very interesting results.
Tags: Research, Attendance, Participation, Barriers, AccessibilityWhy green issues matter to audiences and how the cultural sector is well-placed to make a positive impact on the environment.
Read our latest guest blog from the Changed Future series, written by Holly Foskett.
Tags: Guest blog, Accessibility, AccessSome people who used to be regular audience members haven't yet returned to cultural organisations. There are ways to entice them back. Read our blog to find out.
YouGov and Experian have been collecting data on the cost-of-living crisis and its impact on consumers. We wrote a blog about the implications for arts and culture audiences.
Tags: Cost of livingCommunity Asset Transfer (CAT) has been successfully utilised across the UK, yet Northern Ireland has seen only one major success story so far – the Open House Festival's ownership of the Court House, Bangor. Its triumph prompts an important question – Why aren't more Northern Irish communities trying out asset transfers to revive cherished local buildings?