Marketplace
TEG’s annual Marketplace is an invaluable networking opportunity for everyone involved in touring or hiring exhibitions. Delegates can make contacts, promote exhibitions available for hire, create a network for exhibition ideas, or simply find out what other organisations have to offer.
Marketplace is held in a different region of the UK each year. You can view reports of previous Marketplaces by clicking on the links at the bottom of this page.
Marketplace welcomes representatives from:
- national, local authority and independent museums and galleries
- galleries in universities, colleges and schools
- exhibition spaces in art centres, science centres, libraries, community centres etc
- invited businesses (TEG corporate members) offering products or services to assist touring exhibitions.
Delegates can use Marketplace in four ways:
- book a table, from which you can display and distribute information about your exhibitions
- circulate freely, gathering information and speaking to other delegates about exhibitions on offer, exhibition exchanges or potential collaborations
- professional development through our programme of seminars and opportunities to network with other exhibition programmers
- deliver a presentation or talk on your previous or current touring exhibition project, service or venue
There is a modest charge to attend the Marketplace, which is reduced for TEG members. In some cases Regional Arts Boards and Area Museum Councils offer financial assistance towards the cost of travel and accomodation for events such as the Marketplace.
MARKETPLACE 2010: FRIDAY 19 MARCH, LEEDS CITY MUSEUM
This year's Marketplace was very successful with about 120 delegates from 72 different organisations contributing to the buzzing atmosphere of the Arena and the accompanying programme of lively and informative seminars. TEG is very grateful to Leeds City Museum for hosting the event and for giving delegates the opportunity to enjoy a tour of the Museum and the nearby Art Gallery.
The event also celebrated TEG’s 25th birthday and it was good to see many familiar faces as well as welcoming several new members who were attending a Marketplace for the first time. The winner of our birthday booking prize was Katherine Weldon of East Lothian Council Museums Service, who received a bottle of champagne kindly donated by TESS Demountable.
For full details of the Marketplace seminar programme and summaries of the sessions, see the Seminars page.
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About our host:
Leeds City Museum: Leeds’ exciting and much anticipated state-of-the-art City Museum opened its doors on 13 September 2008. The impressive museum, converted from the historic listed former Civic Institute building in Millennium Square, is spread over four floors, with five major galleries, a central arena and special exhibitions space while a purpose-built discovery centre is also located near Clarence Dock. It is the first purpose-built home for Leeds's artefacts since bombing in 1941 damaged the city’s original museum on Park Lane.
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Previous Marketplaces
MARKETPLACE 2008
Friday 21 November
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Marketplace 2008 was hosted by National Museums Liverpool and held in Merseyside Maritime Museum.
As well as promoting their available touring exhibitions and/or finding exhibitions to hire, delegates had the opportunity to attend the seminar programme in the format of a series of presentations and talks highlighting collaborative exhibitions and practical issues. They were also able to follow 800 years of Liverpool's history in a guided visit to the Magical History Tour exhibition and also to join a tour of the International Slavery Museum.
About our host:
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside was established as a national museum in 1986 because of the outstanding quality of its collections and in 2003 changed its name to National Museums Liverpool. Its origins go back to 1851 and the founding of Liverpool Museum. Today there are seven National Museums Liverpool venues, together attracting 2 million visitors in 2007.
Merseyside Maritime Museum (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime)
Collections reflect the vitality and importance of the port of Liverpool and its role in world history. At the museum you can see a variety of objects associated with nautical archaeology and the social and commercial history of the port. Highlights include ship models, maritime paintings, colourful posters from the golden age of liners and even some full sized vessels. The Merseyside Maritime Museum is also home to the International Slavery Museum.
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http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/index.aspx
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/magical/
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/
To view reports of other previous Marketplaces, please download the documents below:
2007
Discovery Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Word, 116KB)
(Click here for pdf with images, 3.2MB)
2006
Rugby Museum and Art Gallery (Word)
2005
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (Word)
2004
Glasgow, at the Collins Gallery.
2003
Birmingham (Word)
2002
The National Portrait Gallery on 18 September
2001
Tullie House, Carlisle (Word)
(Report by the sponsor, Panelock Systems Ltd)
2000
Guildhall, Bath (Word)