united exhibits group - icom uk...22 september 2015 • 30 years experience • over 400 exhibitions...

United Exhibits Group

International Touring Exhibitions and Loans

WIRP Workshop Bristol

22 September 2015

• 30 years experience

• Over 400 exhibitions worldwide

• Local staff in regions

• Over 40 million visitors

• Art, Cultural History, & Science Exhibitions

• Work with an expert team of exhibition professionals

• Work with significant works and genuine artefacts

• Partner with governments, museums, and private collectors

Past Example Art Exhibition

• Klimt in Korea 2009

• Major partner – Belvedere Museum Vienna

• Record setting exhibition in Korea seeing over 100,000 visitors in less than a month

Past Example Science Exhibition

• Missing Links Alive

• Working with Drs. Maeve and Richard Leaky

• Touring to more than 40 venues in Europe, Asia, and America

Example Cultural History Exhibition

• Hans Christian Anderson

• Quest for Immortality in the USA with the Egyptian Government

Special Projects

• Creates special projects and works with partners to present existing exhibitions and create customised projects

Services Include:

• Full exhibition planning and implementation

• Commissions

• Consultancy

• Customising existing projects

Case Study – Cooperation with Bolton Museum

• Quest for Immortality

• Quest for Treasures

• Quest for Immortality set records in Taiwan

• Seen by over 1.3 million people

• A record breaking 10% of the population of each city saw the exhibition

Benefits to Bolton Museum

• International Knowledge of Collection and local pride

• Analysis of key objects – mummy scans

• Staff skills and appreciation of these by Council

• 2012 Museums & Heritage Awards International Award Winner

Benefits – New Gallery

• New HLF funded Gallery

• Facsimile tomb chamber permanently installed at Bolton

Quest for Treasures

Touring in Taiwan

Exposure of Little Known Collection

Analysis of Key Object in Collection

Case Study – Chinese Consultancy

Renoir in Shanghai

UEG – What We Can Offer

• New exhibitions

• Modify existing exhibitions

• Consultation and staff support