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Download the National Network members programme September 2010 - March 2011

The Contemporary Art Society's National Network membership provides arts professionals with a national and increasingly international perspective on public collection development that will support their working lives:

Membership offers access to the only UK wide programme that generates new ideas and shares existing knowledge relating to the institution of the museum and the development of public collections of contemporary art.

The programme is for museum and gallery directors, curators, educators, project managers and other arts professionals. The existing membership includes those who are working with collections and others who wish to know more about how public collections are established, developed, conserved, used, researched and animated for audiences everywhere.

The programme locates itself around the following key questions:

- What do museums and galleries offer to the ecologies of our towns and cities?

- Who is curating, mediating, using and visiting our public
collections now and in the future?

- Where are the existing and potential partnerships that will enable museums to work with artists to generate new contemporary art for their collections?

- How can the stakeholders ensure a vibrant and meaningful future for public collections of contemporary art?

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