Opening times are very important in regards to time scheduling as different kinds of people will be free to go at different times. The target audience of the museum is quite restricted but variable at the same time. Creatives and designers working in Leeds' industry will of course finish their places of work at different times but we can assume they work a 9:00-5:00 like the majority of workers in a city. As well as them there will be students who if are in university on the given day will be in 9:00-4:00/5:00 and finally retired creatives who are still highly passionate about the subject of design and typography who are free almost always but tend to prefer going out early morning around 8:00 and going home early afternoon around 3-5ish dependant on time of year as it gets darker earlier in the winter.
Museum:
I believe that in consideration with the variants of people that would want to visit the museum, a 9:00am start would be a suitable time to open as the elder end of the audience would have time to get ready and travel to the city either by their own means or by public transport from surrounding areas. This covers the extreme end of the audience's start of the day. The museum would take a couple of hours for people to get around it fully. The latest extreme of the audience that would want to visit the museum would be the people finishing work around 5:00pm to give them an hour to get to the venue or be tied up in creative business as well as give them enough time to look around the museum, a suitable closing time would be 8:00pm.
Shop:
As the shop would be visited for souvenirs after looking around the museum, a suitable opening time for it would be 10:00am, an hour after the museum opens up for people. As well as the closing time reflecting upon that idea and shutting at 9:00pm, an hour after the museum closes.
Cafe:
I thought that it could function as a cafe in the morning, and a restaurant/bar in the evening. This would create a more social-based atmosphere for creatives after work so they can go for some drinks with their friends or have a meal with their loved ones or that creative person that someone has their eye on. To start the day, the cafe can be accessed before the opening time at 8:00am to catch people on their way to work/university for a fresh coffee and some breakfast. The changeover can have an hour break between at 5:00-6:00 and then the restaurant hours can start. This can close at midnight to cater for the creatives going for a drink with their colleagues and friends.
The location of the museum:
After our brief crit with a select few of our peers, I was recommended to check out a contemporary art exhibition space developed from the Tetley HQ in Leeds as this was an ideal space which I was trying to explain what I was thinking about.
This space would be a great area to photograph and manipulate into mock-ups for the type museum I was creating.
I took it upon myself to send them an e-mail to ask if I could have permission to photograph the building to use in my project in hope of a reply.
I received a reply with good news and planned to go after my concepts and designs were complete.
Is it a free museum? Is it government funded?
When thinking upon this question, the museum itself wouldn't need to be funded by the government or need to push an admission fee. The museum having a gift/book-shop as well as a cafe/restaurant/bar onsite would provide enough revenue to keep the museum going strongly. This would give the museum full creative control of what happens rather than the government having a say in how to do things.
Could it have a partnership with Leeds College of Art and the Leeds Galleries?
I think for a museum of this subject to have a partnership with a university directly covering the topic of the museum would be very beneficial for both sides as it would encourage the students to visit the space regularly as they are updated on the happenings, possibly give a discount for the students for the shop and cafe/restaurant/bar as well as being educated on the topic with a large amount of detail.
As for the galleries, they could be promoted through the museum, and vice versa but wouldn't necessarily be directly linked in any way.
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