Artworks owned by the local authority

As a freedom on information request, provide the following information:

1. The number of artworks owned by your local authority as of 1 April 2026 or the most recent available date.

2. The number of artwork owned by your local authority that is on public display as of 1 April 2026 or the most recent available date

3. For each financial year, from 2020-21 to 2025-26, the number of artworks disposed of, split by whether it was sold, donated, destroyed or other? If possible, please list the artworks sold.

4. For each financial year, from 2020-21 to 2025-26, list the income from artworks sold?

5. For each financial year, from 2020-21 to 2025-26, provide the number of artworks acquired (including purchases or donations, if recorded). If possible, please list the artworks acquired.

6. If held, the most recent estimated total value of the authority's artwork collection (if available provide the value for insurance purposes rather than assumed value).

7.If possible within the cost restraints of this request, please provide a list of artwork owned by the council.

This response relates to original artworks owned within Museum and Archive collections (legally owned by Lincolnshire County Council) and defining artwork as "an object made by an artist of great skill, especially a painting, drawing, or statue". This excludes decorative and applied arts and horology.

1. Approximately 7374

2. Approximately 74 works Public display includes those that can be viewed by the members of the public in local authority buildings such as council headquarters, libraries, sports and leisure centres, and schools that are under local authority control. It would exclude areas of council properties that cannot be readily entered into by members of the public.

3. 0

4. 0

5. 2020-21: 0

2021-22: 5

2022-23: 2

2023-24: 0

2024-25: 0

2025-26: 1 (Oracle of Our Forebears, Charmaine Watkiss – gift)

6. Lincolnshire County Council does not hold this information.

7. The attached Excel spreadsheet lists artworks (such as paintings, drawings, sculpture but not decorative art or craft) owned by Lincolnshire County Council, drawn from six separate databases within our collections management system, each corresponding to an individual museum site’s collection, so it is as accurate as possible as the time allows within this response.

Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.