Schools4Museums

Welcome to Schools4Museums the longest running and most comprehensive regional collection of information about how schools use South East museum services.

The South East Schools Database now contains more than 119,000 records relating to schools that have used a museum in the region. This has involved the co-operation and input of data from the great majority of the region’s museums – ranging from a single entry from a small, independent museum to thousands of entries from major museum services.

Schools4Museums contains information about all the Accredited museums in the South East, their collections and education services, as well as nearly 68,000 state and independent schools, nurseries, FE and HE institutions across England and Wales. In total the Database represents an estimated 97.1% of all museums’ work with schools across the region.

Since its inception the database has been a regional project. This remains a continued ambition for Schools4Museum for 2011-12, but due to changes in funding, the project will regrettably no longer be able to support museums outside of the Hampshire and the Isle of Wight sub-region for free. If you are located in other parts of the region we will invite you to add your own information to the database. For those of you who are too busy, we are happy to enter and clean your information for a modest fee. We are keen to continue the excellent work undertaken by museums over the past decade and hope the sector will value this project and continue to support it during 2011-12. To find out more about the changes to the project click here.

Schools4Museums is designed to give museum managers, curators, education staff and volunteers up-to-date information about how Primary, Middle, Secondary, Special and Independent schools are using museums across the South East.

Schools4Museums does this through:

- Creating up-to-date maps and satellite views of all the schools located within a 30 - 90 minute
  drive time of each museum
- Providing easy to use schools finder searches, that allow museum staff to locate schools by
  Name; Location; Postcode; Drive time; Type; and Level of museum education activity or
  through combinations of these criteria
- Giving museum staff schools marketing databases and school address labels for free!
- Providing a free, easy to use online booking diary that shows school's bookings by the day,
  week and month and is accessible at home, at work or on the move, anytime!

To find out more about how Schools4Museums.org can help your museum click on the Benefits and Advantages link on the left hand menu.

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