Predecessor organisations Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, trading as
Museums Sheffield, was a charity created in 1998 to run
Sheffield City Council’s non-industrial museums and galleries. Museums Sheffield managed three sites in
the city:
Graves Art Gallery,
Millennium Gallery and
Weston Park Museum. Its offices were located at
Leader House on Surrey Street. The trust was responsible for the care of the city's historic collections, including visual and decorative art, social history, archaeology and natural sciences. Its mission was 'to connect with our visitors, share stories about Sheffield and the wider world, and care for the city's collections'. The
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust (
SIMT) used to run the council's industrial museums:
Kelham Island Museum,
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, and
Shepherd Wheel Workshop. The trust was originally created from a partnership between the City Council,
Sheffield Hallam University and the
Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire as
Kelham Island Museum Ltd. in November 1994. It was reconstituted as the
Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust in 1998 when the City Council passed to them control of the recently closed Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Shepherd Wheel. SIMT was commended by the
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council for its repairs to Kelham Island after the 2007 floods.
Post-merger Following years of collaboration, Museums Sheffield and SIMT merged on 1 April 2021 to form Sheffield Museums Trust. == Sites ==