The Labour Government recently stated that access is a cornerstone of all its cultural policies, including those for … access can be analysed. In applying that paradigm to museums, it demonstrates a number of analytical and theoretical “red …. Unless it uses this framework, the Government cannot be sure that it has secured access for the many instead of the few …

This paper looks at the issue of access to the arts in terms of the very unequal attendance at and audiences for the … high arts by educational grouping. The meaning of equal access is analysed, recent data for two countries, namely the …