Museum consultancy projects
Our work with museums focuses on business planning, income generation, assessing commercial opportunities, and reviewing the market: everything that is needed to create financial resilience and sustainable development in today’s challenging environment.
With extensive experience across a wide range of museums and heritage visitor attractions, we are specialists in working with smaller museums: charitable trusts, volunteer-led organisations, and those embedded in a local authority context. For museums looking to choose a strategic path and secure their future, we can help appraise the options, and deliver the financial and organisational reviews that will make sure plans are realistic, and can be implemented by your team, whilst remaining in line with your values, and the stories you want to tell. We are experienced in working alongside activity planners, interpretation designers, conservation and landscape architects, and collections and archives experts, and in preparing documents for funders.
Some of the museum consultancy projects we have worked on include:
-Novium Museum, Chichester District Council: Post-opening operational review and production of a supporting marketing action plan. Separately, we were commissioned to carry out a feasibility study to introduce a café within the museum
-Moira Furnace Museum and Country Park, North West Leicestershire District Council: Market assessment and options appraisal
-Tenby Museum and Art Gallery Museum: Governance evaluation and income generation planning
-Cambridge Museum of Technology: Business resilience planning
Please see projects we have worked on within the museums sector here. We also work across the wider heritage sector – please see example projects here.
Added value: Direct operational experience
Our sister company, Planning Solutions Limited, has direct experience of managing heritage visitor attractions and museums: this means we have hands-on knowledge of the challenges of managing a museum, from staffing and volunteering, to audience insight and marketing: we provide robust, expert consultancy, from a standpoint of real world expertise.
Whilst we don’t prepare activity plans, interpretation plans or designs, we regularly work with activity planners, interpretation experts, conservation architects and landscape architects.
Clients have said a few words about our work:
“Planning Solutions Consulting Ltd were our preferred supplier following a highly competitive procurement process and demonstrated an edge in their knowledge, experience and insights throughout the whole consultation. The combination of operational and business development knowledge, the expert team, and a really proactive approach to engaging with our stakeholders resulted in a robust and credible Feasibility Study (for Parc Howard Museum) that will become an essential tool for taking our project forward. We were listened to but also encouraged to consider new ideas, shown how these could work and the benefits they could bring by better meeting our long term goals.” Morrigan Mason, Museums Development Manager, Carmarthenshire County Council.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our work within the museums sector or would like to discuss a potential project please don’t hesitate to call Richard Linington on 07866 742628 or email richard@pslplan.co.uk