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It is estimated that there are about 2,500 museums in the UK, depending on what you include. Over 1,800 museums have been accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)*. Registration under the MLA Museum Accreditation Scheme indicates that a museum has achieved a nationally approved standard in management, collections care and delivery of information and visitor services.

The Museums & Galleries Yearbook, published annually by the MA, offers the UK’s most comprehensive list of current museums.The free admissions policy applies mainly to museums that are funded and managed by the government. Therefore it is free to access the permanent collections in all national museums, though they may still charge for temporary exhibitions. Almost all university museums and a large number of local authority museums also operate a free admissions policy. Most - but not all - independent museums charge an entry fee. Museums Journal advertises jobs for the museums and heritage sector. Museums Journal Jobs is posted twice monthly to all MA members. If you are a non-member you can also access our Jobs Online database when you register for free on the website.  There are lots of training and development opportunities for people who want to develop a career in museums. At the MA we offer several professional development schemes to help those volunteering and working in museums get ahead. Our extensive range of museum specific training is open to everyone working in the sector, whether you are already employed or trying to get that first job.People from ethnic minorities and those who are deaf or disabled are under-represented in the museum sector. The MA’s Diversify scheme, which is no longer running, encouraged museums to make bursaries and traineeships available to help make museum careers more accessible to people from these groups. Although many people find working in museums and galleries a rewarding and interesting career, it is not a very well paid one. The MA published a salary survey in 2004 which found that almost everyone working in museums earned less than people working in comparable roles elsewhere. According to 2009 figures, the average starting salary for a curator is £16,000 - £19,250, with front-of-house pay lower still. The MA is committed to addressing the issue of low pay and has produced best practice salary guidelines. Almost all museums and galleries have volunteers working for them. They work in all sections of the museum from front-of-house to exhibitions departments. Some museums are entirely run by volunteers. At least half, according to a recent survey by the Museums, Libraries and Archives council, would like more volunteers.

Although the MA does not set up placements, you can find tips and resources on our website on how to get started as a volunteer. The YBA’s were noted at the start for the use of shock tactics, throwaway materials, wild-living, and gained a huge amount of media attention in the 1990’s. Their work re-vitalised the British art scene and lead to more artist-curator lead exhibitions and artists embracing and becoming more involved in the commercial aspect s of their work.

The core of artists associated with the YBA movement all graduated from Goldsmiths Collage London and it is said that Michael Craig Martin one of the tutors there at the time had fostered this new way of working.

The YBA label proved to be a powerful brand and marketing tool, but it concealed huge diversity between the artists involved. Now many of the artists involved such as Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin have become part of the art establishment they were striking out against when they started. Although maturing into different artists the YBA’s are held together by their shared emergence in the art world of the late 80’s and early 90’s. Other YBA’s include Marc Quinn, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread and Jake and Dinos Chapman.Scholars have debated the term ‘sublime’ in the field of aesthetics for centuries. Many more artists, writers, poets and musicians have sought to evoke or respond to it. But what is the sublime? Is it a thing, a feeling, an event or a state of mind? The word, of Latin origin, means something that is ‘set or raised aloft, high up’. The sublime is further defined as having the quality of such greatness, magnitude or intensity, whether physical, metaphysical, moral, aesthetic or spiritual, that our ability to perceive or comprehend it is temporarily overwhelmed.The best-known theory published in Britain is Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Burke’s definition of the sublime focuses on such terms as darkness, obscurity, privation, vastness, magnificence, loudness and suddenness, and that our reaction is defined by a kind of pleasurable terror.During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sublime was associated in particular with the immensity or turbulence of Nature and human responses to it. Consequently, in Western art, ‘sublime’ landscapes and seascapes, especially those from the Romantic period, often represent towering mountain ranges, deep chasms, violent storms and seas, volcanic eruptions or avalanches which, if actually experienced, would be life threatening.Other themes relate to the epic and the supernatural as described in drama, poetry and fiction, for example, by Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, as well as more contemporary authors, such as Byron and Mary Shelley.

Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK

 Art Galleries UK