Working across the museum, heritage, and cultural sectors, Crown Cultures provides bespoke consultancy services in evaluation, interpretation and exhibition development, training and mentorship, and academic research.

Working with Crown Cultures means getting a bespoke and personal service from experts: we are a small company and we work best by embedding ourselves with project teams who are ready for a challenge.

Read more about our services below.

    • Evaluation of National Lottery Heritage Fund projects through Development and Delivery Phases, plus other sector funders 

    • Project evaluation across front-end, formative, and summative evaluation periods

    • Multi-year summative evaluation, providing facilitation of utilising evaluation results in future development 

    • Use of a variety of evaluation methods and instruments, including surveys, interviews, observations, focus groups, evaluation with children, through on-site data collection

    • Quantitative analysis using SPSS Statistics, including descriptive statistics and advanced analysis including cross-tabulation analysis, correlational analysis, and factor analysis

    • Qualitative analysis using QSR NVivo, including content and thematic analysis 

    • Report writing and dissemination of results to a variety of stakeholders including project teams, senior leadership, external stakeholders and funders

    • Development of temporary and permanent exhibitions, exhibits and galleries in museums and heritage organisations

    • Delivery of National Lottery Heritage Fund interpretation projects, plus other funders 

    • Facilitation of workshops for interpretation framework development

    • Content research and development

    • Object selection, development of AV and other interactive elements

    • Text writing and audio guide development

    • Project management of design, delivery, and build, working across multiple contractors

    • University level teaching of public engagement, evaluation and audience insights for both undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts 

    • Training sessions on evaluation, impact evidence, and interpretation for staff teams and public engagement deliverers and organisers 

    • Training and mentoring programmes for organisations implementing evaluation processes, supporting staff teams through instrument design, data collection methods, analysis and reporting 

    • Support for capacity building and integrating evaluation and visitor-centred interpretation practice into organisational operations

    • Delivery of academic research projects exploring public engagement theory and practice 

    • Support researchers with conducting evaluation activities and collecting evidence for Impact Case Studies and the Research Excellence Framework  

    • Lead on or supporting the writing of academic papers on public engagement

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If you’d like to learn more, or work with us, please get in touch.

“Dr King is an excellent research and evaluation partner. Her fluency with both quantitative and qualitative methods - and her good humor! - were critical in adapting the MEUX Toolkit to collect data about the impact of our learning and civic engagement programs.

She worked hand-in-hand with our staff, offering guidance and mentorship to ensure our research team understood and correctly implemented the process, data, and analysis. Importantly, she also set the foundation for our team to replicate the process independently in the future. I highly recommend Dr King to any cultural institution seeking more rigorous and actionable program evaluation.”

High Museum of Art

Atlanta, GA