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Thoughts on the UK's museum and heritage sector — the people, places, communities, and ideas that make it matter.
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In community halls up and down the country, small groups of dedicated volunteers are preserving the evidence of lives lived — the kind of history that never makes it into textbooks.
"The information exists nowhere else. When the last person who knows it is gone, it is simply gone."
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The UK has over 2,500 museums. Most people can name a dozen. What's hiding in the other 2,490 — and why are they so hard to find?
The school trip is in decline — squeezed by costs, curriculum pressure, and paperwork. That's a problem we can't afford to ignore.
Google has made finding museums easier — but only the ones that are already easy to find. The long tail of British heritage remains stubbornly invisible online.
2,500+ museums on the map. Events. Local history societies. All in one place.