Category: News
Museums + Heritage Awards 2014 – Award winners review: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Winner in the Marketing Campaign category - Walrus on the Move… Read more
Museums and Heritage Awards 2014 – Award Winners Review – The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Caught in the Crossfire: Artistic Responses to Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation. Highly Commended in the Temporary or Touring Exhibition category… Read more
The Audience Agency launches new research and insight initiative for museums – Visitor Finder
Visitor Finder is a new initiative designed specifically to support museums in obtaining and using information about their visitors to help to inform their work across advocacy, business planning, engagement and marketing. Visitor Finder is the museums strand of the… Read more
How Many Visitors Today? A Great Little Museum Case Study
This case study describes the day to day activities of a small, local, volunteer run museum - the Wymondham Heritage Museum. Pip Woodward reports from life on the front line of museum management. Read more
Crossrail – Portals to the Past – An exhibition of archaeology finds 2014
Crossrail is one of Europe’s largest civil infrastructure projects. Construction of the railway involves excavation at around 40 sites right across the historic city, a history that dates back to the last ice ages. The project provides an unprecedented opportunity… Read more
Live theatre and cinema meet augmented reality at Nottingham Castle
Roma Patel is one of two Nottingham Trent University researchers working closely with Nottingham Castle and Nottingham-based Hot Knife Digital Media to develop storyline, script and interaction for a new augmented reality app. Called Riot 1831@Nottingham Castle, the project will… Read more
Tempting visitors to spend
Whatever the evidence may be of a burgeoning recovery on the high street, happy days are certainly here again in the heritage industries. Monica Lucas, founder, Pragma Consulting, looks at how museums are tempting visitors to spend in both catering… Read more
REMIX Academy Summit – From Idea to Reality
A few years ago we teamed up with Google, Bloomberg and The Guardian to create the REMIX Summit for Culture, Technology and Entrepreneurship. At the time we could see that a fascinating movement of cultural entrepreneurship was emerging - people… Read more
Museums transcending disciplinary boundaries
Interdisciplinary research and engaging with wider audiences are key to the new Oxford University initiative TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. TORCH’s Humanitas Visiting Professorship Programme is one of the ways in which this is done through… Read more
Progress at the Foundling Museum
The 10th anniversary of the Foundling Museum sees an exhibition featuring four reinterpretations of the Rakes Progress, alongside original Hogarth prints from 1735. Read more
Listen and Tell
Kathryn Box, Marketing Officer at Manchester Museum, explores the museum‘s all-important communication channels. Read more
Project Costs: How to expect the unexpected
As a museum, with precious funds, the last thing you want is for a project to cost more than you expected. Read more
Sustainability in the Museum sector
Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the museums and heritage sector and museums increasingly need to model green behavior and sustainability, from recycling to managing energy use. Patricia Mandeville of Cynergin and Declan Rajasingham of the Natural History Museum encourage… Read more
From Music Hall to Museum – Shrewsbury’s New Museum and Art Gallery
After a £10m project to give it a new home, Shrewsbury’s new Museum & Art Gallery at The Music Hall has finally opened its doors. Read more
Caring for fine art and museum artefacts – the role of transport and storage
The rise in cooperation between museums globally has meant the need for secure, efficient and effective transport and storage of museum artefacts and fine art has never been greater. As the number of loans has increased, curators have necessarily become… Read more
And the winners are….
The winners of the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence 2014 have been announced, with visitor attractions from across the UK being recognised for their remarkable achievements. Read more
New Culture Diary launches
Launched last week, The Culture Diary promises to be an invaluable tool for organisers and promoters of UK cultural events, across all art forms. Read more
Multi-function ticketing for a world-class venue
Paul Roberts, Ticketing and Information Manager at The British Museum, explores the challenges and opportunities of modern ticketing systems for the Museum’s varied visitor offerings. Read more
Looking after our stained glass heritage
Conservators Keith Barley (ACR FMGP) and
Alison Gilchrist (MA) share some of their expertise. Read more
Worth a Thousand Words
Kam Rehal, Senior Graphic Designer for Imperial War Museums considers the role of graphic design in the museums sector. Read more