Category: News
Corporate club launched to raise money for new £7m Being Brunel museum
Being Brunel is a major redevelopment at the home of ss Great Britain to create a new museum that will bring to life the story of the great engineer… Read more
The Main Event – How museums can maximise income from their unique venues
With the challenges of budget and funding cuts (The Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s funding for national museums will have been cut by 30 per cent in real terms since 2010 to 2015 with higher percentage cuts in many… Read more
Arts Council England announces successful Museum Resilience Fund organisations
M+H Advisor talks to Arts Council England (ACE) director of museums John Orna Ornstein on the Museum Resilience Fund and how the new grants will improve the sector… Read more
Culture Secretary outlines new era for England’s heritage
The two successor bodies to English Heritage have set out their plans for the years ahead… Read more
Gruesome but scientific – the Wellcome Collection’s Forensics: the anatomy of crime exhibition
Following a £17.5million development, Wellcome Collection opens a major exhibition today (26 February) exploring the history, science and art of forensic medicine… Read more
The Olympic Games: Behind the Screen a new exhibition at The Olympic Museum
Broadcasting coverage of the most watched sporting event in the world is the subject of a new exhibition at The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland… Read more
Drawn by light: the Royal Photographic Society Collection to open in March
The exhibition at the National Media Museum, Bradford will explore 200 years of photography… Read more
From Stone Age man to Red Rum – Between Land and Sea explores 10,000 years of Sefton’s Coast
The Atkinson in Southport has launched a new permanent exhibition, which explores the rich and varied history of the Sefton area… Read more
Museums Galleries Scotland launches first ever non-graduate traineeship programme
The programme provides the opportunity for 20 non-graduates from a range of backgrounds to take part in a one-year paid traineeship with host museums and galleries throughout Scotland… Read more
Museums + Heritage Show announces extensive programme of free talks and one-to-one expert advIce
With just over two months to go until Museums + Heritage Show 2015, the organisers of the UK’s most comprehensive event for the cultural sector has announced its most ambitious programme yet… Read more
National landscape discovery centre a step closer thanks to £7.8m HLF grant
Situated in the heart of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site in Northumberland National Park, the Sill will become the country’s first national landscape discovery centre… Read more
Brooklands Museum, home of the world’s first motor-racing circuit, embarks on £7m project
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
British Postal Museum & Archive Chairman to pass on her mail bag as new £22m museum planned for 2016
The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) will deliver its new museum next year with a fresh chairman… Read more
A £3.8m Heritage Lottery Fund grant will see restoration of historic steam-powered Tug-Tender
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
Whitworth Art Gallery reopens following £15M transformation
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
All aboard! V&A Museum of Design Dundee embarks on national tour of scotland
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
Exhibition for Guggenheim Helsinki design finalists
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will present the free, public exhibition Guggenheim Helsinki Now at the Kunsthalle Helsinki in April… Read more
Special report: Independent museums aim-ing high
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
Latest statistics for Government-sponsored museums show two million more visits made
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
Election! Britain Votes – the place to be for this year’s general election
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