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WRIGHT, Birkbeck, University of London and King’s College London, United Kingdom ANDREA BALLATORE, King’s College London, United Kingdom  \nALEXANDRA POULOVASSILIS and PETER T. WOOD, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom  \nSignificant numbers of UK museums have closed in the past 25 years, usually leading to the dispersal of their collections. However, there has been no systematic data synthesis or analysis about what happens to museums’collections when they close. Thus, there has been no research into how closure may vary across different types of museums or the patterns of object dispersals from closed museums. This uncertainty about how collections might be being preserved, or lost, makes these questions significant to museum researchers and professionals.“Museum Closuresin the UK 2000–2025” is an interdisciplinary project aiming to address these questions, working within the challenges of heterogeneous data that is hard to source and that exhibits a high degree of uncertainty. This article presents work we have conducted to overcome these challenges, presenting novel contributions including (1) an interdisciplinary methodology and light-weight technical architecture encompassing data collection, modelling, visualization and analysis; (2) a re-usable conceptual model, implemented within a graph database, allowing integration of diverse data from a wide range of sources; (3) a suite of data visualizations providing domain experts with an intuitive interface supporting them in their investigation of patterns of object dispersal. This work is of significance for researchers and practitioners in museum studies and the digital humanities. The methodology and techniques described here are applicable to analysing object flows in museum sectors beyond the UK, and to broader cultural heritage sectors such as galleries, libraries and archives.  \nCCS Concepts: • Applied computing → Arts and humanities; • Information systems → Digital libraries and archives; • Computing methodologies → Knowledge representation and reasoning.  \nAdditional Key Words and Phrases: museum studies, museum analytics, museum closures, flow data, cultural objects, museum collections, cultural heritage  \nACM Reference Format:  \nGeorge A. Wright, Andrea Ballatore, Alexandra Poulovassilis, and Peter T. Wood. 202?. Modelling and visualizing flows of objects from museums. ACM J. Comput. Cult. Herit. 1, 1, Article 1 (January 202?), 47 pages. [https:](https:)//[doi.org/10.1145/3343871](doi.org/10.1145/3343871)  \nAuthors’ addresses: George A. Wright, [george.wright@bbk.ac.uk](george.wright@bbk.ac.uk), Birkbeck, University of London and King’s College London, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom, WC1E 7HX; Andrea Ballatore, [andrea.ballatore@kcl.ac.uk](andrea.ballatore@kcl.ac.uk), King’s College London, The Strand, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 2LS; Alexandra Poulovassilis, [a.poulovassilis@bbk.ac.uk](a.poulovassilis@bbk.ac.uk); Peter T. Wood, [p.wood@bbk.ac.uk](p.wood@bbk.ac.uk), Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom, WC1E 7HX.  \nPermission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires [prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org](prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from permissions@acm.org).  \n© 202? 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