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HLF launches Kick the Dust pilot as challenge to heritage and youth sectors to improve youth engagement
The programme supports a priority set out in the Government’s recent Culture White Paper to involve young people more effectively in the UK’s culture, both heritage and the arts. Kick the Dust is a pilot programme, which aims to make… Read more
Ashmolean Museum to host day-long event about user experience analysis
The theme of the event is access and participation and will look at how museums can use UX techniques to find out how people interact with our spaces. Dr Frankie Wilson, Head of Assessment at the… Read more
Turner Prize 2016 exhibition opens at Tate Britain with contemporary artworks from four shortlisted artists
This year works on show at Tate Britain are by Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten, Michael Dean, and Josephine Pryde will share the £40,000 prize fund with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted… Read more
Brighton Museum announces workforce development conference to help develop a skilled and diverse workforce
The Workforce Development Conference is organised by RPM and funded by Arts Council England (ACE) under its Major Partner Museum programme. The conference announcement follows a new report published this week – The Character Matters: Attitudes, behaviours… Read more
Croome Park – restoring Capability Brown’s landscape from farmland into a modern outdoor visitor attraction
Restoration work at Croome Park is in its 20th year now, which has seen the National Trust restore more than 400 acres of pasture, which had been arable farmland for the past half a century,… Read more
Compton Verney Restoration Project – creating refreshing new ways to enjoy Capability Brown’s landscape
The Compton Verney Restoration Project was initially launched to restore the ‘Capability’ Brown Chapel of 1776-9, but the project was soon scaled up to include the landscape in which it sits, all considered in relation to the potential funds that… Read more
Yorkshire Sculpture Park – making art accessible to everyone among rolling hills and woodland
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is a pioneering outdoor cultural haven that aims to challenge, inspire, inform and delight its 400,000 annual visitors of which 48,000 are part of learning visits. Included in the landscape are formal gardens,… Read more