Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, engaging as benuri.org, is the first full scale virtual museum and research centre. Conceived in 2018 and published within the 2019 Sustainability and Public Benefit StrategicPlan benuri.org was soft launched in September 2020. Ben Uri was founded by a Russian Jewish immigrant artist in 1915 in Whitechapel in the East End of London. It was the firstBritish Jewish cultural institution and the centre of engagement for two waves of immigration - the first pre WWI fromRussia and the second pre and post WWII from Central Europe escaping or surviving the Holocaust. It became effectively homeless in 1996 and in 2001 a new Board set a transformative strategy to operate in the mainstream of British culture. In 2018 the Trustees published its Sustainability and Public Benefit Strategy which carved an enlightened operating formula for this (and other?) small and medium sized museums (representing 82% of the UKs 3,500 museums) to achieve financial sustainable and de...