The building of the Heath Robinson Museum is now underway in Pinner in the northwest London borough of Harrow where the illustrator lived from 1908 to 1918, and produced some of his most significant work. The new museum will include… Read more

The National Museum of Scotland will open a new exhibition on Friday exploring the 200-year history of one of the world’s oldest fashion brands… Read more

A £96,000 Arts Council England grant awarded to Norton Priory Museum & Gardens and the University of Liverpool will fund the development of a new form of carbon dating… Read more

The awards are part of a three-year £1.5m deal between the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) and waste management company Biffa… Read more

New exhibition opens ahead of centenary of the torpedoing of passenger ship during WWI… Read more

The not-for-profit contemporary art organisation has opened its new Contemporary Art Centre in a former Soviet-era naval headquarters… Read more

Visionary fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s work is celebrated in a special show opening Saturday (14 March) with 240 of his ensembles and accessories… Read more

Following groundbreaking work with museums in China, Loughborough University Design School is using the latest 3D digital technologies to develop commercial services for museums… Read more

Suitcase Attaché gives users a creative boost by unleashing the power of typography in two widely-used applications. Read more

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

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

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

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

This year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta and at Salisbury Cathedral Archivist Emily Naish and Chris Woods, Director of the National Conservation Service have been working on its first full condition inspection. Here they report… Read more

The UK Parliament has announced it will be commemorating 750 years since the Simon de Montfort parliament (20 January 1265) and 800 years since the sealing of Magna Carta (15 June 1215)… Read more