HOW AND WHY WE USE
ART DIFFERENTLY PURPOSE DELIVERY PUBLIC BENEFIT
DIGITAL with a Physical Presence
Benuri.org enables unrestricted global audiences, facilitating limitless ambition and content without the capital cost of a prime located building and all associated running costs.
Launched in 2019, benuri.org hosts 45 exhibitions, 50 publications, 100 films, 200 school programmes, 400 artist biographies, 500 archival exhibition records, 850 artworks, 10,000 pages of
archives, the Ben Uri Research Unit and the Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute. Global is supported by local at the museum on Boundary Road, NW8.
The Ben Uri Research Unit, inspired by our century-old immigrant and arts heritage, was formally launched in 2019. It digitally records the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. This is an extensive, exhaustive, valuable and timely academic and social initiative. Its purpose is to share, and quantify for
The 70+ age group is the fastest growing demographic, which will double in size in the next 25 years. The physical and mental regression of ageing, and wide scale loneliness in particular, are central features of our ever-growing crisis in social care. Ben Uri has been active in delivering researched art interventions in London care settings for the past 12 years. Residential care only represents 5% of
RESEARCH UNIT
the first time, this diverse and richly influential contribution to British culture. Unrestricted online access is available to all and of relevance to students, scholars, museum professionals, critics, art collectors, dealers, auction houses, writers, journalists and politicians alike. Additional outcomes of the research
ARTS AND HEALTH
the demographic with the remaining 95% living in their own homes and greatly more difficult and expensive to engage. The culmination of five years’ research and evaluation sees Ben Uri creatively address the need for affordable, national interventions that will enhance wellbeing and the quality of life of our older people. Ben Uri is pioneering researched
are new exhibitions, collection acquisitions, films, podcasts, events and publications. Building on this Ben Uri focus since 2002, the Research Unit has already published more than 250 profiles and currently has another 800 under research.
digital engagements through bespoke, high-accessibility ‘arts’ TV programming inspired by, and sourced from, our museum collection. The objective is to create a national channel engaging some 500,000 viewers by 2025 in care settings and, most importantly, the majority living in their own homes.
CAN YOU HELP?
If you believe you can actively further any of the three core programmes above, either personally or financially,
please email a short note to David Glasser at Beinvolved@benuri.org
STOP PRESS: the gallery is now undergoing remedial building work following a flash flood
affecting N W London and will remain closed until work completed Please explore benuri.org for an extraordinary range of content and updates on reopening