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Achievements
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| Since it was established in April 1998, Museums Sheffield has made significant progress in enhancing facilities and services. Among the most significant achievements have been: |
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Sites:
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- The opening of the £15 million Millennium Gallery.
- The successful £19m redevelopment and launch of Weston Park, opened in autumn 2006, which met its annual visitor target in just 3 months of opening.
- A £125,000 improvement programme for the Millennium Gallery including the launch of a new shop.
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Audiences:
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- Weston Park's inclusion on the shortlist for the 2007 Gulbenkian Prize, the UK's largest arts prize, and subsequent recognition as one of the three best museums in England.
- In 2005/06, Museums Sheffield breaking visitor records with an increase of over 14% on the previous year.
- The European Design Show (2005) became the best attended show in Trust history with 57,000 visitors.
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Acquisitions:
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- The award of £12,000 from the Art Fund and £5,000 from the J G Graves Charitable Trust towards the acquisition of a significant contemporary work, Sam Taylor-Woods Self Portrait Suspended VII.
- The receipt of £425,000 Heritage Lottery Funding to purchase the Bill Brown Collection, regarded as the largest and most significant private collection of cutlery in the UK.
- Funding from the National Art Collections Fund, the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the JG Graves Charitable Trust and a private donation allowing the Trust to purchase Mark Quinns celebrated and subversive contemporary sculpture, The Kiss.
- The purchase of the first major acquisition for the city in over a decade through the innovative joint purchase of Zacharias and Elizabeth by Sir Stanley Spencer with the Tate Gallery in early 1999.
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Partnerships:
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- The successful completion of the first two-year Yorkshire Museums Hub Plan, lead by the Trust.
- The Trusts partnership with the V&A resulting in several nationally significant exhibitions being brought to Sheffield, including Palace and Mosque
- A series of successful exhibitions from with Tate Partnership Scheme, including John Constable: A Breath of Fresh Air and Tate Sculpture: The Human Figure in British Art from Moore to Gormley.
- The establishment of a long term Partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum centred on the new Millennium Gallery, through which major exhibitions of the V & A will come to Sheffield.
- A partnership with Tate, which enabled exhibitions from Tates internationally important collections to be shown in Sheffield.
- Becoming the lead organisation for the Yorkshire Renaissance initiative
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Trust:
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- The gaining of Phase 2 accreditation under the Registration Scheme for museums operated by Re:source.
- Achievement of Designated status from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport for the Metalware Collections. This makes the Museums Sheffield one of only 52 museum and gallery organisations in the country to be awarded such an accolade.
- An enhanced temporary exhibition programme that achieved national recognition.
- Securing £0.5 million to create new storage facilities for the collections through HLF funding.
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