Category: News
Norton Priory to pilot revolutionary radio carbon dating process
A £96,000 Arts Council England grant awarded to Norton Priory Museum & Gardens and the University of Liverpool will fund the development of a new form of carbon dating… Read more
AIM announces 6 new recipients of the Biffa Award
The awards are part of a three-year £1.5m deal between the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) and waste management company Biffa… Read more
Innovative digital research project focusing on museum visitor spend goes live
Museums and heritage attractions are asked to join trial participants and receive free report on what factors influence visitor spend… Read more
Charles Dickens’ iconic desk saved for the nation
The Desk where the classics Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood were written to go on display at author’s former London home… Read more
MOSI receives Wellcome Trust grant to boost new gallery plans
The Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI), Manchester will now go ahead with ambitious plans to expand following a £1.8 million grant from the Wellcome Trust… Read more
Sekhemka Statue to stay in UK following export Bar
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the Statue of Sekhemka following its sale to an overseas buyer by Northampton Borough Council… Read more
M+H Show Talks: Mar Dixon Talks Tech
Mar Dixon curates a stream at the Museums + Heritage Show entitled New Technology on Thursday, 30 April, which includes a chance to try Google Glass… Read more
Museum of London eyes up new home at the Victorian Smithfield General Market
The Museum of London has laid out a new vision for the museum which involves relocating to the nearby market by 2021… Read more
Ground-breaking work to restore 250-year-old Anglesey Abbey clock completed
Conservators at West Dean College used digital technology to bring back to working order a Chinese Pagoda automation clock… Read more
Parliament puts democracy on the map with art project
The Houses of Parliament have launched a new mobile app map to trace the country’s democratic hotspots… Read more
Is this the Age of the Independent Museum?
The Chairman of the Association of Independent Museums picks out the facts from a recent ACE-commissioned report which suggests it could be… Read more
LUSITANIA: her people remembered – exhibition launched to mark centenary of ship’s sinking
New exhibition opens ahead of centenary of the torpedoing of passenger ship during WWI… Read more
Secretary of State appoints new Trustees of Historic Royal Palaces
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Professor Sir David Cannadine and Jane Kennedy as Trustees of Historic Royal Palaces… Read more
Heritage Lottery grant boosts Dry Stone Walling preservation and skills in the North West
The Dry Stone Walling Association has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £220,400 for the Built Landscape Heritage Education and Training Project… Read more
Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku opens the new YARAT contemporary arts and education centre today
The not-for-profit contemporary art organisation has opened its new Contemporary Art Centre in a former Soviet-era naval headquarters… Read more
Postal Museum 3D Scans its underground Mail Rail
British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) has been exploring how cutting edge technology can alter the museum experience… Read more
Christina Mackie: the filters fills Tate’s Duveen Gallery
Tate Britain today unveils the filters, a three-part installation by artist Christina Mackie (b. 1956)… Read more