The Novium Museum in Chichester has announced that it will be showcasing the extraordinary journey of astronaut Tim Peake from growing up in the town to becoming the first British European Space Agency astronaut in a new exhibition Tim Peake… Read more

Royal Society launches grants for small museums to celebrate scientific heroes Local Heroes scheme now open for applications with grant funding of up to £3,000 available to small museums and galleries to champion exceptional discoveries in science from around the… Read more

The plans are being drawn up as part of the museum’s centenary legacy programme of developments that will see both RAF Museum sites transformed in celebration of the air force’s 100-year anniversary in 2018. Developments at the London site have… Read more

HLF launch new Heritage Endowments programme of  to promote more resilient future for UK Heritage This new Endowments programme has been designed to build a strong and resilient future for heritage, organisations and help them secure a regular source of… Read more

The stamps showcase some of the best loved surviving examples of Capability Brown’s work, and celebrate his contribution to landscape gardening including: Blenheim Palace, Longleat, Compton Verney, Highclere Castle, Alnwick Castle, Berrington Hall, Stowe and Croome Park. Lancelot Capability Brown is… Read more

In December 2014 Sir Peter Bazalgette the ACE’s outgoing chair, made a one of his ‘most important speeches’ to the arts and culture sector announcing a fundamental shift in the way the funding body approached diversity and made it a… Read more

Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) has received a confirmed grant of £4,677,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards a £12.6m project called the Endeavour Galleries that will be completed in mid-2018 in time for the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s… Read more

Designing for the interior of the period from 1910-1930 for Stedelijk Museum’s current exhibition Living in the Amsterdam School (named after a style of Dutch architecture) is an immersion in details, shapes and craft, particular for this movement in the… Read more

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