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Museums Partnership Report: Sharing Collections 2019/20
This report is an overview of the collection sharing activities of 22 national museums in 2019/20.
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The national museums in the UK hold world-class collections. Lending objects is a key way in which the national museums can increase public access to their collections both in the UK and internationally, in museums and elsewhere.
This third Museum Partnership Report focuses on sharing collections and includes 22 national museums, covering 75 sites and focuses on activity during the financial year 2019/20.
The report shows that in 2019/20 the national museums undertook 2,290 loans of 71,205 objects, which were seen by at least 35.7 million people.
A further 499,973 objects went on loan to institutions for research purposes.