Thank you to everyone who took part in the Annual Museum Survey 2022.
124 museums in the South East took part and submitted visitor and operational data for the period of 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
This data set is hugely important to the sector to demonstrate not only the economic impact that museums have in our region, but to advocate for further investment to recover from the impacts of the pandemic and informing targeted support for museums through museum development services.
This year the survey results are vital to our ongoing understanding of the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on our region’s museums, and how museums are managing their recovery through 2021-22. Operating since 2018, The Annual Museum Survey 2021 also compares data with previous years to understand the depth of this impact and the pressures it has placed on the museum sector’s paid and volunteer workforce.
View the 2022 Annual Museum Survey Reports
Please browse an interactive ‘infogram’ copy of the Annual Museum Survey 2022 Report below:
You can also view a range of sub-regional reports:
- Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire: AMS 2022 Locality report: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire (SE) - Infogram
- Hampshire Solent: AMS 2022 Locality Report: Hampshire Solent (SE) - Infogram
- Kent & Medway: AMS 2022 Locality Report: Kent & Medway (SE) - Infogram
- Surrey, East & West Sussex: AMS 2022 Locality Report: Surrey, East & West Sussex (SE) - Infogram
Previous Annual Museum Surveys: South East
Previous Annual Museum Surveys: National
National Annual Museum Survey 2020-21
Data and privacy statements
South West Museum Development (Bristol City Council) is commissioned by each Museum Development region to deliver the Annual Museum Survey 2022.
As the contractor for the Annual Museum Survey 2022, we operate as the Data Processor for each of the regional Museum Development providers. Survey responses are stored and processed in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (2018).
No personal information will be published in publicly available reports or datasets or shared with other organisations. As the Data Processor, on behalf of the eight Museum Development providers, we supply the data generated through the survey along with the contact details of the individual providing the data survey return to each respective Museum Development provider.
South East Museum Development Privacy Policy
The purpose of the Annual Museum Survey 2022
We run this survey to predominantly collect quantitative data, which represents the audiences, workforce and financial operational context of Accreditation museums and those Working Towards Accreditation (WTA) across England.
This data is valuable for gaining an understanding of museums in their locality and in a regional and national context. Analysis of the data can inform a benchmark for participant museums year on year and identify trends across the sector at a regional and national level.
Data sharing and open source data
Reports based on this survey will be published widely and made available on this webpage and the websites of regional Museum Development providers. Data provided via the survey will be combined with those of other museums to produce publicly available reports. The data will support sector advocacy, inform Museum Development business planning and sector wide strategic planning.
The dataset will be published as open source data in 2024 to support further research. The aggregate data set generated by the survey in 2022 will be shared with our main funders, Arts Council England.
The dataset will be published as open source data on Museum Development websites from January 2024 – approximately one year after regional reports are published to support further research. The datasets will not include financial information or any personal information generated by the survey process. The aggregate data set generated by the survey in 2022 will be shared with our main funders, Arts Council England.
Archive Annual Museum Survey Resources
We provided snapshot data on each sub-region within the south east extracted from the 2019-2020 report, pre-pandemic.
On these PDF documents you will find data on the economic impact, visitor numbers and the workforces of museums in each sub-region, extracted and weighted from the full Annual Museum Survey data from the south east in 2019-20.
What does a local authority museum look like in the south east?
What does an Independent Museum look like in the south east?
What does a Museum in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire or Berkshire look like?
What does a Museum in Hampshire Solent look like?
What does a Museum in Surrey or Sussex look like?
We have also created some infographics based on data from the report which you are welcome to download and use for your own communications and reporting.
South east museum workforce infographic
Economic Impact of museums in the south east infographic
Visitor statistics infographic
Equality & diversity planning infographic
We will be adding more infographics over time, please do get in touch if we can produce content which would support you and your museum.
Contact
If you would like further detail on your museum’s Annual Museum Survey submission or on any other aspect of the reports please get in touch with us at [email protected].