Arts and Culture


With the launch of Great Art and Culture for everyone the time is now right to build on previous reviews of evidence over the years and refresh our thinking on the impact arts and culture can have on the social and economic landscape.In Arts Council England launched the arts debate, a major programme of qualitative research into the arts and their funding.
The outputs of this piece of work help shaped a new mission at the time Achieving great Art and culture for everyone and the five outcomes that underpin it: excellence, innovation, diversity, engagement and reach Arts Council inherited new responsibilities for museums and libraries.
In order to fully understand the needs and priorities of these sectors we undertook an evidence review of the museums and libraries policy landscape.
This informed a second strategy, Culture, knowledge and understanding we launched a refreshed strategy –Great art and culture for everyone.

This document updates our strategic framework for the arts, libraries and museums, which were set out in separate documents.
Achieving great art for everyone and Culture, knowledge and understanding aimed to focus our work over the next 10 years and encourage shared purpose and partnerships across the arts.
They provided the rationale for our investment in the arts and museums and will inform our future funding decisions, and our development role for libraries. These documents were shaped by the views of artists, arts organisations, the public and our many stakeholders and partners.
We know that an importance of arts and cultures in promoting social and economic goals through local regeneration. Attracting tourist, the development of talent and innovations, improving health and well being,and delivering essential services.


These benefits are instrumental, because arts and culture can be a means to achieve end beyond the immediate instrinsic experience and value of art itself.

This review concentrates on identifying robust research that explores to what extent arts and culture bring these benefits to individuals, communities and society.

However, we are also conscious that there are intrinsic benefits of arts and culture experiences, such as aesthetic pleasure, which are seen as private and personal. These intrinsic benefits to an individual spillover to ‘instrumental’ impacts:


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