Image: The Natural History Museum unveils Fern in the newly transformed gardens (c) The Trustees of the Natural History Museum
The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK.
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Appointments
The National Justice Museum in Nottingham has appointed four new trustees to its board. Joining are Assistant Director of Corporate Services at the UK Supreme Court, Ben Yallop; media and communications law barrister Lily Walker-Parr; teacher of History Ryan Holford, and Executive Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Dean for Nottingham Trent University and Senior Minister of the Pilgrim Church in Nottingham, Clive Foster MBE. The new appointments join existing trustees Helen Emmett, Jennifer Spencer, Roger Chapple, Nic Williams, Struan Campbell, Jenny Chapman, Katherine McNamara, and Chair Paul Bowden.
The Natural History Museum has announced a successor to former Chairman Sir Patrick Valance, who was recently appointed into the new Prime Minister’s cabinet. Sir Patrick stepped down as Chair following his appointment as Minister of State (Minister for Science) by the Prime Minister earlier this month.
Natural History Museum appoints successor as Valance made science minister
The Horniman Museum and Gardens has announced the appointment of a Director of Audiences and Income, and a Director of Content. Annie Duffield joins the museum as Director of Audiences and Income in August and will lead a team covering fundraising, membership, marketing, communications, digital, events programming, ticketing, visitor experience, retail, catering and venue hire.
Horniman Museum and Gardens appoints income and content leads
Openings & closures
The Brunel Museum in Southwark is to close in September for a £1.85m refurbishment project. Located at the site of Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, the project is set to complete as it celebrates 200 years since the tunnel’s creation.
The Natural History Museum’s transformed gardens will welcome visitors from today. Visitors will be able to see ‘Fern’, the museum’s new bronze Diplodocus, as the free-to-visit green space across five acres, which wraps around the Museum’s building across two outdoor ‘living galleries’; Nature Discovery Garden supported by the Cadogan Charity and the Evolution Garden.
Exhibitions
Over 50 paintings, drawings and sketches by artists Norman Cornish and LS Lowry will be showcased at The Bowes Museum from this weekend, including a newly discovered Cornish self-portrait. Uncovered during conservation work to Cornish’s painting Bar Scene, it will sit alongside 35 rarely or previously unseen artworks by the artists who “shared a strong love of the north”, the museum said. ‘Kith and Kinship: Norman Cornish and LS Lowry’ runs 20 July 2024 – 19 January 2025.
In October the National Portrait Gallery will stage its first major exhibition of portraits by Francis Bacon in nearly two decades. ‘Francis Bacon: Human Presence’ brings together rarely-seen works from private collections around the world, charting Bacon’s career through more than 50 of the artist’s paintings. Runs 10 October 2024 – 19 January 2025.
A new exhibition at the Science Museum will chart the 120-year journey through the evolution of science at Versailles, and how science became widespread and fashionable. On display in ‘Versailles: Science and Splendour’ will be scientific objects and artworks from history, many will be on display for the first time in the UK including Louis XV’s rhinoceros and a sculptural clock representing the creation of the world. Runs 12 December 2024 – 21 April 2025.
Decorative paper cuttings thought to be made by seventeenth century schoolgirls have been identified at the National Trust’s Sutton House in London, and will now go on display. The 500-year-old property served as a girls’ school in the seventeenth century, but it was during a renovation in the 1980s when hundreds of pieces of ephemera had been found under floorboards and were stored but undocumented. ‘Lost by Schoolgirls’ will display the objects at Sutton House from 19 July until the end of the year.
350 year old paper cuttings found under Sutton House floorboards go on display
Funding
The National Lottery Heritage fund has awarded £5m to Archives Revealed, a long-running partnership between The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust and the Wolfson Foundation.
£5m boost for project improving public access to archive collections
The V&A has successfully raised £2m to acquire a 12th-century walrus ivory carving, depicting the Deposition of Christ from the Cross.
V&A acquires £2m medieval carving of the Deposition from the Cross
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