The mood at the second day of the Association of Independent Museums Conference at the Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh was muted as sector professionals tried to come to terms with the result of yesterday’s landmark EU Referendum. Read more

What was your aim in researching the report? We have to set the bar high for the Government’s Culture White Paper. We need to fight for a holistic and balanced national cultural policy and funding settlement, designed to… Read more

The DCMS received an overall cut of five per cent, to include a 20 per cent cut to its administration budget, while ACE and England’s national museums will receive standstill budgets until 2019-20. However, museum directors across the country expressed… Read more

Committee says more should be done to redress the balance of funding away from the capital as a matter of urgency… Read more