A New Era

A fulL SCALE virtual museum 

 

Until this transformative digital reinvention, Ben Uri, like so many small but purposeful institutions, was restricted in its ability to widely engage outside its locale by the physical limitation of a space and location. This film explains the context of the small and medium-sized museum sector, which represents over 80% of all UK museums, and the rationale and journey in creating benuri.org.

 

 

 

This pioneering virtual museum has been designed to substitute the large, centrally-located museum building that was, for 20 years and more, our ambition but which constantly proved unaffordable in price and unviable in running costs.

 

This new, expansive, perfectly located, widely-encompassing, virtual museum and research centre has incurred no costs to buy, build or refurbish; incurs no business rates; no utility costs; no security and staffing costs, and it can be extended at will, with no planning permissions required and no capital costs. It is open 24/7 every day of the year whenever is most convenient for you to visit; there are no entry fees and no travel costs. We are as accessible to London Ontario, London Arizona, London Island, Chile, as we are to London England. Click here for Press Release.

 

Today, Ben Uri hosts four websites:   

 

  • BENURI.ORGis the ‘mothership’ that links all three sites and, additionally, offers over 70 online exhibitions, 100 podcasts and films, as well as new, expanding content featuring relevant, open-source PhD theses and dissertations, alongside a growing reference resource of focused essays and articles. 
  • BURU.ORG.UKhas published some 1,000 profiles of individuals from across a dozen different professions within the arts from some 100 countries of birth. The majority to date are European. This resource is fully searchable across a myriad of fields.   
  • DIASPORA-ARTISTS.NEToriginated by Professor Eddie Chambers, has published some 2,500 profiles reflecting the Black and Asian contribution.   
  • THE COLLECTION SITE reflects its academic focus and is the inspiration of the museum’s scholarship and as well as 4 exhibitions a year in its Gallery. It supports a large loan programme and tours exhibitions and lends works to museums nationally and internationally. 
  • COPYRIGHT

'FAIR DEALING', SECTION 28 ONWARDS WITHIN THE UK COPYRIGHT DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT, 1998

Ben Uri is the leading digitally led educational charity whose principal focus is disseminating, to the widest global audience, the lives and contribution of refugees and immigrants to the rich visual cultural mosaic of Great Britain since 1900.
The charity respects UK copyright law and digitally presents its scholarship within the ‘fair dealing’ exceptions for the purposes of research, private study, non-commercial, criticism, review, news reporting, incidental inclusion and accessibility as outlined in Section 28 onwards within the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1998.
There is no cost and access to our online exhibitions and web content is free to all as a key element of our charity objects.
Should you have any questions on any elements of our online educational programming please communicate through our  ‘Contact Us’ page.