Museum of Forward Planning

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We badly want to serve all communities through a co-curated and co-created approach.

But we fear, in the current world environment, we can’t quite raise the effort.

Extensive meetings and show consultations will follow

So we may need to de-size and reimagine ourselves closed.

We may find a way to restore some lustre, but it feels like a long shot.

Lacklustre

That’s the word for our current social media approach.

We are officially one more ‘let’s pedestrianise Oxford Street’ closer to the end of days.

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From 23rd-27th April

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Driving reach and reputation, but not revenue #Museums

#Free on kindle
From 23rd-27th April

The Museum of Forward Planning Manual: Abridged thoughts on how not to run a museum amzn.eu/d/8QacGfW

Driving reach and reputation, but not revenue #Museums

Then increase it if it’s income, and cut it back if it’s a cost!

As we approach our target of 900 followers here, we pause to remind ourselves that it’s totally arbitrary.

We’ve launched our new exhibition for Easter weekend!

Produced using degenerative AI instead of our (now downsized) human team, you’ll experience a large number of things that ‘aren’t quite right but you can’t put your finger on it’

Please bring your own cup for coffee. #Museums

Please bring a torch if you’re visiting this Easter.

We’ve used all available power to create AI illustrations of items that aren’t real but which would look cool in the gift shop.

The world burns. Etc.

a little girl in a blue dress is eating a chocolate treat Alt: a little girl in a blue dress is eating a chocolate treat

Just a reminder to all visitors.

We know we are actually handing out chocolate eggs in our gallery spaces.

But let’s be VERY CLEAR - you may not eat the chocolate eggs in our spaces.

Think of it as a test.
And of yourselves as failures

#Museums #Easter

All serving a bespoke signature range of baguettes

48? Haven’t read it, just a guess

Infographic showing the fact that how we do at Easter for visitor numbers had a huge impact On the left an arrow points down showing staffing budgets will be cut on indoor museums and galleries if the weather is good On the right an arrow points up showing staffing budgets will rise for heritage attractions and outdoor venues if it is sunny

Easter activities are now under way!
As always this is a crucial period for us as performance over the holiday will irrationally and completely stuff the rest of the budgets.

#HappyEaster

Ticket prices have been adjusted.

If you have a membership for another museum we will be adding a 25% tariff to your entry.

Heritage organisation membership will attract a 12% levy.

Rates are doubled if we find you are a patron somewhere else.

A cupcake with green icing with a skull on top

Why not bring along a Mother or a Mum or anyone that fulfils that role for you in your life to the #Museum today?

Drop them off in one of our dull but worthy exhibition areas and they can have a nice nap.

Then invest in an expensive cake - Halloween themed and may take time to defrost.

Stayed in bed late to try to avoid the Stonehenge/ clocks joke.

Failed.
#ClocksGoForward

Our bid for WHSmith was not accepted.

And that’s a shame, because as a #Museum we are great at leveraging value from ever dwindling investment, patching up infrastructure and limping on.

We were the obvious fit #WHsmith

This weekend our retro cafe will be serving everything grilled using our George Foreman Grill.

Before there were air fryers - this was how we lived.

#RIPGeorge

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Very excited to be launching a new ticketing system this Good Friday!

We will also be launching brand new exhibitions, a new scanning system and an AI driven rota system.

All part of the busiest weekend of the year.

Go us.
#Museums

Not in ALVA’s visitor figure reports again. They’re obsessed with real, actual museums.

If you are planning a visit tomorrow please delay until after 1st April.

We have reached our visitor targets, any further numbers will merely raise expectations for next year.

Poster for our new trail for lazy journalists, it allows them to ‘find’ ‘lost’ objects such as the collections items featured on the poster. Tickets unavailable. Includes MOfP logo

As we begin the Easter build-up we are proud to launch our special trail for lazy journalists

Help ‘find’ the ‘lost’ items that only our collections and archives teams knew about based on careful cataloguing and storage!

#Museums #Galleries #Collections #Archives

Wear white gloves for free entry

These are also available second hand - because they really should
come that way

A pie chart showing our income model. About 95% secondhand book sales, the remainder is split between grants, admissions, gift aid and the cafe

Reviewing our income model as we limp into a bold new financial year … #Museums

We’ve unexpectedly had to pull this scheme.

The budget was redirected to a vanity project elsewhere at short notice