Helen Goodman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Goodman on 2014-04-25.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many paintings, artefacts and other objects were lent from the collections of grant-in-aid funded national museums and galleries to regional museums and galleries in each year since 2010-11.
Mr Edward Vaizey
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has collected and published the following data about the number of venues in the United Kingdom to which the sponsored national museums have lent objects from their collections.
|
Number of UK loan venues |
|||
|
Institution |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
|
British Museum |
178 |
162 |
169 |
|
Imperial War Museum |
90 |
376 |
104 |
|
National Gallery |
17 |
35 |
35 |
|
National Maritime Museum |
71 |
74 |
81 |
|
National Museums Liverpool |
193 |
228 |
239 |
|
Science Museum Group 1 |
164 |
185 |
240 |
|
National Portrait Gallery |
133 |
118 |
118 |
|
Natural History Museum |
182 |
131 |
32 |
|
Royal Armouries |
107 |
106 |
120 |
|
Sir John Soane’s Museum |
7 |
3 |
4 |
|
Tate Gallery |
153 |
147 |
128 |
|
Victoria and Albert Museum |
241 |
262 |
242 |
|
Wallace Collection 2 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
1 From 2011-12, the total includes figures for the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, following its merger with the Science Museum Group.
2 The Wallace Collection cannot lend items under terms of its bequest.
