Agenda item

Keats House Visitor Information

Meeting of Keats House Consultative Committee, Thursday, 6th February, 2014 1.45 pm (Item 6.)

Verbal update of the Principal Curator, Keats House.

Minutes:

The Committee received a verbal update of the Principal Curator concerning visitor information at Keats House.

The Principal Curator laid comparative visitor figures, including those for social media, newsletter and website hits around the table. The figures provided were 2012/13 and 2013/14 (to date).

The Principal Curator advised that visitor numbers were consistently higher than in previous years and it was hoped this trend would continue into 2014/15.

In response to a Member’s question, the Principal Curator responded that 2014 – 2021 marked the 200^th Anniversary of Keats greatest period of activity, adding that there would be a series of events to mark various anniversaries throughout the period, beginning in 2014 with ‘Finding a Voice’.