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Intro: The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is a registered museum and charity and the First Full Scale Virtual Museum & Research Center. In 2018 Ben Uri announced its Digital future through its published Sustainability and Public Benefit Strategic Plan and since 2020 has transformed and embraced a digital future as its primary vehicle of engagement – supported by a physical presence via its St Johns’ Wood gallery – to create the ‘First Full-scale Virtual Museum and Research Centre’ at www.benuri.org. benuri.org includes the museum's collection, which principally reflects the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British art since 1900, including an itemised exhibition list from 1925 onwards, a digitised archive and is soon to launch a digitised catalogue of its art reference library. It also includes online exhibitions, podcasts and audio material, as well as showcasing the work of Ben Uri's two principal and distinctive public benefit-generating initiatives: the Ben Uri Research Unit for the study and digital recording of the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900 (BURU) and the Ben Uri Arts and Health Institute (BUAH). BUAH addresses and researches the role and construction of art interventions, using the museum's collection as a resource, for the growing demographics of older people living in social isolation and/or with dementia via its three programmes: Ways into Art, Starting with Art, and Art in Residence. The unique scale and depth of the digital platform encompasses 40+ online and 3D exhibitions, 50+ exhibition catalogues and research papers, 60+ podcasts, 100+ art and health interventions, 120+ films, 200+ school and family art programmes, 400+ artists’ biographies, 500+ archival exhibition records, 850+ artworks, 10,000 archive pages.

History: Ben Uri was founded in 1915 by Russian-Jewish émigré artist Lazar Berson in Whitechapel, in London's East End to provide a platform for Jewish immigrant craftsmen and artists then unable to gain access to mainstream artistic societies, due to traditional obstacles faced by all migrant minorities. It was named after Bezalel Ben Uri, the craftsman who designed and built the Ark of the Covenant, and in kinship with the Bezalel School, created nine years earlier in 1906 in Jerusalem. Originally an art society, Ben Uri has continued to evolve over the decades. During the 1930s its collection and exhibition programme was significantly enriched by the so-called ‘Hitler émigré’ generation. In the post-war period, Ben Uri became the cornerstone of the Jewish community’s cultural activity until the late 1970s. In 1995 Ben Uri gained museum status but lost its Soho gallery when the synagogue building in which it was housed was sold. A new Board of Trustees was elected in October 2000, led by current Chair of Trustees, David Glasser, to deliver a radical strategy to reshape and reposition the institution. The charity/museum was relaunched in 2001 by the new Board, with a new name, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, and has rented its current gallery in St. John’s Wood since June 2002. Between 2001 and 2018, Ben Uri has curated some 100 exhibitions, toured to 25 different cities across three continents, published and distributed over 40 books and catalogues, nationally and internationally, and produced over 100 short films. Its scholarship on Jewish and immigrant artists is recognised internationally. Ben Uri has also pioneered a new approach to using art differently through its Arts and Health programming, collaborating with universities; its content and structure are the result of research and evaluation. The objective is to upscale and establish a new national standard for art interventions.

Permanent collection: Ben Uri began to build a collection in 1919 with early purchases including works by Simeon Solomon (1919) and David Bomberg (1920). From around 80 works in 1930, today the fully digitised permanent collection has some 850 artworks. The most comprehensive and important collection of works by late 19th, 20th and 21st Century immigrant artists in the United Kingdom and the international museum sector, reflecting Ben Uri's heritage, artworks in the collection are principally by Jewish artists. Highlights include works by Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, Marc Chagall, Jacob Epstein, Mark Gertler, George Grosz, Josef Herman, Peter Howson, Jacob Kramer, Kurt Schwitters, Chaïm Soutine and Alfred Wolmark, as well as works by founder Lazar Berson and the Ben Uri studio, all displayed on a rotating basis in exhibitions at its north London gallery. Since 2001, however, the remit has expanded to include relevant works by immigrant artists to the UK from all national, ethnic and religious origins, who have helped to enrich the British cultural landscape including Tam Joseph, Hormazd Narielwalla and Zory Shahrokhi.

Locations:Ben Uri opened its inaugural exhibition at its short-lived gallery in Great Russell Street, WC1 in 1925; a new gallery opened at 63 Mansell Street, E1 (1930–32), Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place London, WC1 (1934–35), 43-44 Great Windmill Street Piccadilly Circus, W1 (1936–39), temporarily closed owing to the Second World War, and reopening at 14 Portman Street London, W1 (1944–63), then moving to Dean Street, Soho (1964–1995); while the museum was closed, the collection was housed at the Sternberg Centre and temporary exhibitions were held at other London locations. The gallery opened at its current location 108A Boundary Road, St. John’s Wood, NW8 in 2002.

Further reading:Dickson, R. and MacDougall, S. (2015). Out of Chaos: Ben Uri – 100 Years in London. London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum. Schwab, W. M. (1987). J''ewish artists: the Ben Uri Collection: paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. London: Ben Uri Art Society.'' OCLC 233681034.


 * Why it should be changed: Rebranding of Ben Uri Gallery & Museum with a Digital virtual museum led to the rewording of the Wikipedia page.


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 * Pictogram voting question.svg Question: Hi. I would be happy to look at your request. Although not a requirement, would you mind clearly showing what changes you propose vs the existing text? That would make the task considerably simpler for us reviewers. PK650 (talk) 04:23, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: Hi, sorry about the delay. Some edits were implemented, but those that weren't were due to poor sourcing or promotional tone. PK650 (talk) 03:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

November 2023

 * Hello, - Museumslondon writing. I am completely new to providing edits on Wikipedia and I tried to update the Ben Uri Gallery page this evening. I received a note guiding me on your protocols - replied thanking and returned to my edits to ensure I followed and to delete any that I fear did not - only to find the whole edit had been withdrawn and the entry had returned to its original content. I clicked on a few tabs and have discovered another version of the update but also not published. How can either updated versions be published please? Thanks and regards Brian / Museumslondon Museumslondon (talk) 23:34, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi (I have put a heading above to separate this from last year's discussion). I reverted the changes you had made as they were not referenced and did not always read neutral. I will put a Welcome post on your own Talk page with links to info about referencing etc. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 23:47, 25 November 2023 (UTC)