The Surrey museum has received a Heritage Lottery Grant of £4.5m to go ahead with its Brooklands Aircraft Factory & Race Track Revival Project… Read more

The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) will deliver its new museum next year with a fresh chairman… Read more

The last-surviving Steam Tug-Tender in the UK, the historic North West vessel the Daniel Adamson, has been awarded £3.8million by The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to restore and open it up to the public… Read more

The Whitworth Art Gallery will throw open its doors tomorrow (Saturday), both the old ones and the new, which connect to the park, following an 18-month redevelopment… Read more

With building work beginning next month the V&A Museum of Design Dundee begins a touring exhibition today that will visit more than 70 venues the length and breadth of Scotland… Read more

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will present the free, public exhibition Guggenheim Helsinki Now at the Kunsthalle Helsinki in April… Read more

The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) was formed when industrial heritage in particular was in a state of decline but today has a flourishing network of organisations says Chairman Matthew Tanner MBE… Read more

New figures published today (Thursday) reveal 49 million visits were made to the 16 museums and galleries directly funded by the DCMS last year… Read more

This year’s general election is building up to be one of the most hotly contested in a generation and as Britain prepares to go to the polls in May the People’s History Museum launches a new exhibition that will follow… Read more

HMS Victory: The Untold Story: Will mark the launch of the world’s oldest commissioned and most famous warship, which first set sail from Chatham on 7 May 1765… Read more

India is set to be the centre of attention this autumn at the Victoria and Albert Museum as it presents a series of exhibitions to mark the 25th anniversary of the opening of its Nehru Gallery… Read more

Unification event part of a year of international celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of the issue of the Charter by King John in 1215… Read more

The deadline for entries passed on Friday, January 30 with hundreds of parcels delivered to the Museums + Heritage offices. Read more

National Railway Museum, York to hold exhibition of Churchill’s restored funeral train and carriages, Coffin Works, Birmingham, which fitted out his coffin, to hold special commemorative evening and Science Museum opens new exhibition… Read more

In May 2014 the judges at the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence gave their seal of approval to the Mary Rose by naming her team winners of the Restoration/Conservation and Permanent exhibition categories… Read more

The environmental control of collections is essential for the upkeep of objects especially where light, humidity and temperature are concerned and is now a fine science with national standards… Read more

Between 2007-11 RAMM underwent a major redevelopment project costing £24 million, which included repair to the fabric of the building, refurbishment, a complete redisplay of the collections and a purpose-built off-site collections store called the Ark… Read more

The Victorian house has improved the management of its collection through environmental monitoring for many years and more recently with Eltek Data Loggers who have discreetly installed a new system… Read more

After outgrowing the constraints of its magnificent 18th century home, Moesgaard has recently built a new museum close by that rises majestically out of the historic landscape… Read more

Comedian Marcus Brigstocke will present the 2015 Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence on Wednesday, April 29… Read more