The London Fire Brigade Museum artefacts include more than 400 tunics and pairs of trousers, around 350 helmets and eleven vintage fire engines, which had to be hoisted onto special flat-bed trucks. Over the past month the majority… Read more

Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is launching a fundraising campaign to raise nearly £12,000 to secure five pieces for its collection ahead of the auction as part of the stunning Pilkington Collection and is also seeking to raise £50,000 to acquire… Read more

Lion Salt Works opened after a 30-year campaign to save the UK’s last open pan salt making site in Cheshire. A four-year restoration, part funded by a £5.2m HLF grant has turned a dilapidated structure into a museum,… Read more

From designing your own emoji to tuning in to the Last Night of the Proms, this list of #70things will help you unleash your creativity this summer say ACE. They are asking people to have a go… Read more

As the new Culture Secretary, I am already getting around the country – and the world – to demonstrate how culture, media and sport are all key parts of the Government’s overall industrial strategy. On my first day in my… Read more

In 1903 the Old Street Courthouse was built by John Butler in the Edwardian Baroque style, it was a contained two courthouses and offices. A neighbouring wing housed cells, lodging for a married officer and on floors… Read more

It is Europe’s most excavated monastic site and following a major redevelopment by architects Buttress, Norton Priory can now offer a much improved visitor experience that fosters clearer interpretation of the site and its objects, and is more… Read more

The isolation of graphene in 2004 at the University of Manchester by professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov did not happen during their normal ‘office hours’ but at one of their Friday night, after-work labs. Their discovery… Read more

The first packing crates have left the old Design Museum home in Shad Thames and are now filling the 1960s Grade II* listed former Commonwealth Institute building, which is being transformed into ‘the world’s foremost museum of… Read more

The paintings have left the castle on only two occasions – to London in 1802 for work on their frames, and in 1995 when they went on display at the National Gallery in London and the Museo del Prado in… Read more

ACE, HLF and Historic England have today launched the Great Place Scheme that will see them work with councils, cultural organisations, universities and other stakeholders to increase access to culture locally, support jobs, economic growth, education, health and wellbeing. The… Read more

As we reported yesterday a total of 94 museums and organisations received a share of £12.2m from ACE’s Museum Resilience Fund, which supports museums to become more sustainable and resilient businesses With ACE changing its funding structure last month more… Read more

The Volunteer Makers model helps organisations engage, manage and grow their volunteer community, opening up volunteering to a wider demographic and connecting with the “long tail” of volunteers. Changes to traditional funding models mean volunteers are becoming increasing important to… Read more

Initiated and led by Northumberland-based Arts&Heritage, Meeting Point supported and worked with nine small and medium scale museums in the North East and Yorkshire during 2015/16 to create a series of exciting new ways of experiencing and looking at their… Read more

The Museum Resilience Fund, which complements the Arts Council’s investment in Major Partner Museums, focuses on gaps (geographical or otherwise) and development opportunities across the sector. The latest round sees a fall in the funding amount and numbers of… Read more

The National Museum of Oman, which spans is 13,700 sq m, has 14 permanent exhibitions and a dedicated gallery for temporary exhibitions and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt open-plan storage concept. The… Read more

A major public appeal by the Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) – attracting 8,000 donations totalling £1.5m – to help the museum acquire the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, has succeeded thanks to a major… Read more

Stanton Williams and Asif Khan working together with conservation architect Julian Harrap and landscape design consultants J&L Gibbons have today been announced as the winners of the Museum of London’s international competition for the new museum at West Smithfield Their… Read more

Resilient Heritage grants between £3,000 and £250,000 will fund a range of tailored activity specifically designed to help organisations improve the way they manage heritage for the long-term. In a challenging and constantly changing economic landscape, one where there is… Read more