Category: News
SJAM: A year promoting social justice in museums all over the world
The Social Justice Alliance for Museums sounds like it has been around for years, decades even, but this month marked the first year of its launch in the UK and it now has a support network spanning the globe… Read more
Conflict, Time, Photography – looking at war through the eyes of time
The destructive forces of war are captured in Tate’s new exhibition, which brings together photographers who have documented wars first-hand and those that have taken retrospective images of conflict zones… Read more
National Museum Wales will showcase landscape masterpieces in exhibition set for US Tour
Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape will to tour four American cities from next month to April 2016… Read more
Derby Museums Trust is showing it has the Wright stuff
Following its successful hosting of international event MuseomixUK the trust is now preparing a Heritage Lottery Fund bid to transform one of the world’s oldest factories… Read more
Rare Bronze Age dagger used as a doorstop to go on display in Norwich
Internationally important antiquity discovered in Norfolk in the 1980s saved for the nation with heritage grant… Read more
From eating boots to survive to creating Santa Claus Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage
Just weeks after the long-anticipated discovery of one of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships the British Library looks back on almost 400 years of a fascination with the fabled Northwest Passage… Read more
Invitation to fall in a theatre on a Friday night
As the leaves are falling outside the Museum of London has prepared a special Invitation to Fall along with artist Amy Sharrocks, which is a fun inquiry into how we feel about falling… Read more
Tate Creates Minecraft Worlds inspired by its art collection
Tate has teamed up with leading Minecraft mapmakers to create virtual 3-D worlds inspired by historic paintings… Read more
Museums Showoff – Challenging ACE!
Resilience and the future of museums will be at the heart of the conversation tomorrow when Museums Showoff teams up with Arts Council England (ACE)… Read more
Gateway Ticketing UK provides ticketing system to Houses of Parliament
New ticketing systems contract under way to improve running of one of the UK's leading attractions… Read more
Staffordshire Hoard: The making of an exhibition
A month after the permanent Staffordshire Hoard gallery opened in Birmingham M+H Advisor catches up with designers Real Studios who brought the histories of an ancient world to life… Read more
A Bear Called Paddington – from darkest Peru to London
Museum of London to open new exhibition celebrating Paddington’s big-screen debut in a feature film released later this month… Read more
Indian Encounters – the differing fortunes of a Sikh Maharaja and a British Army Captain
British-Indian relations are examined in a new exhibition, Indian Encounters, which opens tomorrow at the National Museum of Scotland… Read more
World Press Photo exhibition arrives in Northern Ireland
Queen’s University Belfast is bringing the World Press Photo exhibition to Northern Ireland for the first time next week… Read more
We will remember them – exhibitions dedicated to First World War
As Armistice Day is marked 96 years after the end of the First World War Advisor talks to PLB Projects Ltd which has recently worked on two Great War exhibitions… Read more
Taking Over Day – Putting Children in Charge of Museums
Kids will be doing the jobs adults do as they wrestle control of Museums in Wales for a special day of activities… Read more
Let’s Remember Together: Remembrance Sunday 2014
As Remembrance Sunday is marked during the 100th year commemorations of the beginning of World War One, museums across the country will hold events… Read more
Transmitting Andy Warhol – ‘art should be for everyone’
More than 100 works by the king of pop art are showcased at Tate Liverpool from tomorrow as it explores the extraordinary power of Warhol’s 'total art' and understanding of mass-culture… Read more
Government calls on Arts Council to redress London funding bias
Committee says more should be done to redress the balance of funding away from the capital as a matter of urgency… Read more
Museum funding: a continuing battle against cuts
The latest deadline for funding from Arts Council England will take place on Thursday (November 6) as the first round of applications for the new Museums Resilience Fund are submitted, kick-starting funding for 2015-2018… Read more