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Tate Partnership Scheme
Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
The Tate Partnership Scheme was a five-year initiative (2000
to 2005) funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Its principal aim was to increase
access to the Tate Collection through a programme of loans and exhibitions organised
with five regional galleries. The Tate Partnership Scheme also comprised training
and networking events and a Tate Seminar, for a wider group of galleries, exploring
issues relating to running and programming publicly funded museums and galleries.
The Scheme built on Tate’s longstanding partnership with
Norwich Castle Museum and the East Anglia Art Fund, as well as Tate’s extensive
loans programme to regional institutions, including the exhibition of Rodin’s
sculpture The Kiss in Lewes Town Hall, East Sussex, seen by more than
1,000 people a day.
The partnership with the five galleries listed above resulted
in a series of exhibitions and smaller displays, appealing to large audiences.
Over the five years, 544 works from Tate’s collection were lent to 32 exhibitions,
underpinned by community and education programmes. The partners have all stressed
the importance to their publics of including major works of art from Tate and
they all made use of the Tate brand in different ways to appeal to audiences and
supporters. All the partners also stated that they gained from opportunities provided
by the Scheme to share and enhance skills.
For more information about each of the partners and events they
organised to contribute to the Tate Partnership Scheme, click on the caption to
the illustrations above.
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