Category: News
BALTIC to host STEAM Symposium for educators to promote art in schools
The STEAM Symposium: Laboratory of Visual Exploration is in partnership with the… Read more
New exhibition showcasing incredible journey of astronaut Tim Peake to open in his hometown Museum
The Novium Museum in Chichester has announced that it will be showcasing the extraordinary journey of astronaut Tim Peake from growing up in the town to becoming the first British European Space Agency astronaut in a new exhibition Tim Peake… Read more
Royal Society launches Local Heroes grants for small museums to celebrate scientific discoveries
Royal Society launches grants for small museums to celebrate scientific heroes Local Heroes scheme now open for applications with grant funding of up to £3,000 available to small museums and galleries to champion exceptional discoveries in science from around the… Read more
RAF Museum appoints Buttress architects to redevelop Cosford site to mark RAF’s 100th anniversary
The plans are being drawn up as part of the museum’s centenary legacy programme of developments that will see both RAF Museum sites transformed in celebration of the air force’s 100-year anniversary in 2018. Developments at the London site have… Read more
HLF launch new Heritage Endowments programme to promote a more resilient future for UK Heritage
HLF launch new Heritage Endowments programme of to promote more resilient future for UK Heritage This new Endowments programme has been designed to build a strong and resilient future for heritage, organisations and help them secure a regular source of… Read more
Royal Mail launches six Capability Brown stamps to mark 300th anniversary
The stamps showcase some of the best loved surviving examples of Capability Brown’s work, and celebrate his contribution to landscape gardening including: Blenheim Palace, Longleat, Compton Verney, Highclere Castle, Alnwick Castle, Berrington Hall, Stowe and Croome Park. Lancelot Capability Brown is… Read more
ACE and University of Leicester push diversity in the sector with funding and scholarships
In December 2014 Sir Peter Bazalgette the ACE’s outgoing chair, made a one of his ‘most important speeches’ to the arts and culture sector announcing a fundamental shift in the way the funding body approached diversity and made it a… Read more
National Maritime Museum Greenwich launches Endeavour project to create four new galleries with £4.7m HLF grant
Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) has received a confirmed grant of £4,677,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards a £12.6m project called the Endeavour Galleries that will be completed in mid-2018 in time for the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s… Read more
London Fire Brigade packs away 20,000 objects in preparation for new fire museum
The London Fire Brigade Museum artefacts include more than 400 tunics and pairs of trousers, around 350 helmets and eleven vintage fire engines, which had to be hoisted onto special flat-bed trucks. Over the past month the majority… Read more
Lion Salt Works wins National Lottery Award trophy
Lion Salt Works opened after a 30-year campaign to save the UK’s last open pan salt making site in Cheshire. A four-year restoration, part funded by a £5.2m HLF grant has turned a dilapidated structure into a museum,… Read more
ACE celebrates its 70th birthday by launching #70things
From designing your own emoji to tuning in to the Last Night of the Proms, this list of #70things will help you unleash your creativity this summer say ACE. They are asking people to have a go… Read more
Culture Secretary makes maiden speech in Liverpool on importance of the arts
As the new Culture Secretary, I am already getting around the country – and the world – to demonstrate how culture, media and sport are all key parts of the Government’s overall industrial strategy. On my first day in my… Read more
Norton Priory opens new museum complex following £4.5m Monastery to Museum project
It is Europe’s most excavated monastic site and following a major redevelopment by architects Buttress, Norton Priory can now offer a much improved visitor experience that fosters clearer interpretation of the site and its objects, and is more… Read more
Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond – creating an exhibition from a material you cannot see
The isolation of graphene in 2004 at the University of Manchester by professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov did not happen during their normal ‘office hours’ but at one of their Friday night, after-work labs. Their discovery… Read more
Design Museum launch Adopt an Object fundraising campaign as it moves to new £83m Kensington home
The first packing crates have left the old Design Museum home in Shad Thames and are now filling the 1960s Grade II* listed former Commonwealth Institute building, which is being transformed into ‘the world’s foremost museum of… Read more
Applications now open for £15m Great Place Scheme to support cultural organisations at local level
ACE, HLF and Historic England have today launched the Great Place Scheme that will see them work with councils, cultural organisations, universities and other stakeholders to increase access to culture locally, support jobs, economic growth, education, health and wellbeing. The… Read more
What will the final round of ACE’s Museum Resilience Fund bring to the sector? We find out with two case studies
As we reported yesterday a total of 94 museums and organisations received a share of £12.2m from ACE’s Museum Resilience Fund, which supports museums to become more sustainable and resilient businesses With ACE changing its funding structure last month more… Read more
Meeting Point – bringing museums together with contemporary artists across the North of England
Initiated and led by Northumberland-based Arts&Heritage, Meeting Point supported and worked with nine small and medium scale museums in the North East and Yorkshire during 2015/16 to create a series of exciting new ways of experiencing and looking at their… Read more