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Beningborough Hall Case Study

Account of the Project

On 3 June 2006, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Trust launched 'Making Faces - Eighteenth Century Style', a refurbishment and redisplay at Beningbrough Hall. By developing the new resources described on the Components of the Project page, the project's objectives are:

• to increase physical and intellectual access to Hall and its collection of eighteenth-century portraits.
• to increase new and repeat visitors; to provide for the needs of informal and varied learning styles and to recognise that many visits to Beningbrough are made by families visiting with children.
• to develop new audiences and to work in a targeted way with specific new and traditional audiences.

These goals build on existing commitments and work at Beningbrough, some of which have been developed as a result of Strategic Commissioning. Target audiences include families with children under 11, Schools and rural schools, the blind and the visually impaired visitor and the elderly in care.

The re-launch followed 10 months on-site work and 3 years of developing, testing and evaluating a series of new interactive displays and layered interpretation that aim to bring eighteenth-century portraiture to life.

http://www.npg.org.uk/live/benintro.asp

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