Renaissance Data Collection Hub Results, 2004-2005

<i>Renaissance</i> was the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council's (MLA) programme to transform England's regional museums. The programme has received over £300 million since 2002 which has been allocated across nine regional museum hubs. Regional museum hubs are a cluster of four-five museums which receive government investment in order to develop as centres of excellence and as leaders of their regional museum communities. <br><br>MLA has been gathering data from the nine regional museum hubs from 2002-2003 to 2007-2008. The Renaissance Data Collection is a quarterly return of data from each site participating in the Renaissance in the Regions Programme. The data returns contain information on numbers of: visits; priority group visits; child visits; website visits; school visits; Higher Education visits; adult and child on-site participation; and outreach activity. The data returns support Programme management and monitoring and forms the basis of the Renaissance Museums Performance Indicator statistical series. <br><br>From the 30th June 2011, the regional Renaissance hub structure ceases to exist. 2011-12 is a transitional year for Renaissance, in which £37.6 million of grant funding, previously known as museum hub funding, has been made available instead directly to 45 museum services. <br><br>Further information about Renaissance can be found on the MLA's <a href="http://www.mla.gov.uk/what/programmes/renaissance/renaissance%20results/hub%20data%20collection" title="Renaissance Data Collection">Renaissance Data Collection</a> web page.<br>