The team behind the annual Museums + Heritage Show and Awards, has today announced the acquisition of leading cultural sector title: Museums and Heritage Magazine. Read more

Our shortlisted projects today are all contenders in the Restoration and Conservation category which has been sponsored by Fairhurst Ward Abbotts. This award highlights the quality of work undertaken on restoration and conservation projects within the UK. How projects have… Read more

Bernard Donoghue, Director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, explains the importance of data to managing and maximising visits to our leading museums, galleries and heritage sites. Read more

John Orna-Ornstein, Director of Museums at Arts Council England, wants to be open about the challenges facing museums. Read more

Subhadra Das, Curator UCL Teaching & Research Collections, tells us the story of how a conservation project brought a pathology teaching collection back from the dead. Read more

And the shortlisted projects today are in the Customer Service category. This award celebrates and rewards volunteers and staff. It’s not the size of an organisation that determines the customer experience but the attitude and commitment of those who work… Read more

Today’s shortlisted projects are all vying for the “Project on a Limited Budget” award, sponsored by Sweett Group, at this year’s Museum + Heritage Awards for Excellence. This award “recognises excellence in the creation of a successful project or exhibition,… Read more

Today we’re looking at the shortlisted projects in the Innovations category. This award focuses on connecting people with objects/collections. Entrants needed to demonstrate how technology (web, apps, a/v, multimedia, digital, etc) has been effectively used to interpret objects and to… Read more

Today’s shortlisted projects are those for the Educational Initiative Award. Entrants for this category had to demonstrate how they have inspired the participants involved, creating a legacy befitting of the unique educational potential of museums and heritage/cultural visitor attractions. This… Read more

With the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence 2014 ceremony not far away, we thought we’d give you a run down of the shortlisted projects in each category. Today’s focus is on the Marketing Campaign award. Entrants had to demonstrate… Read more

Jaime DeSimone, Exhibition Projects Coordinator at the PEM in Salem, Mass, tells Advisor about this popular exhibit and describes the challenges involved in its installation. Read more

The National Trust for Scotland preserves a collection of monuments on the summit of a hill, near Stirling. They commemorate the thousands of soldiers – the servicemen of their day – who lost their lives at the Battle of Bannockburn. Read more

In the first of a series of articles looking at working life across the Museums and Heritage sector, Fran Lashmar, Education Manager South East, English Heritage gives us an insight into her role. Read more

Today, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is announcing funding of £30m towards 10 projects that reflect the diversity of the UK’s heritage. They include a far-reaching project to help protect the future of our seriously dwindling bee population, two projects… Read more

Managing copyright in museum collections is a fascinating challenge. Whether dealing with the museum’s own copyright, or that belonging to an artist or their estate, copyright managers perform a constant balancing act between access and protection. Bernard Horrocks, Intellectual Property… Read more

As the public seeks ever more authentic and real, personal experiences of heritage in our leisure time, the gauntlet is thrown down to the interpretive designer and client to meet the demand. English Heritage and PLB have been exploring this… Read more

A new memorial centre to commemorate the sacrifices made by those involved in Scotland’s coal mining industry is shortlisted for two design awards. The project, completed by Purcell’s Edinburgh studio, is in the running for a Royal Incorporation of Architects… Read more

For collections management to be to the highest standard possible, all we need to do is understand our collections. Often this is not as easy as it sounds, as many curators look after an extremely diverse range of collections. Jan… Read more

Moving objects is one of the core functions of Collections Management and a key responsibility for anyone with responsibility for cultural collections. Freda Matassa, of Matassa Toffolo, explains more. Read more

A major project to relocate Chichester Museum in the South of England is now complete. The strategy for the new location is to make the displays as flexible as possible so that exhibitions can be changed frequently, giving local people… Read more