Most of these 16 projects focus on the refurbishment or extension of existing arts buildings and range from upgrades of spaces to large scale renovations. The successful applicants have now been invited to complete a stage two application within the… Read more

National Museum of African American History and Culture Scheduled to open in September 2016, the museum is under construction on the National Mall in Washington, DC on a five-acre tract adjacent to the Washington Monument. The National Museum of… Read more

The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell is the result of a collaboration between the museum and Newcastle University where the extensive Gertrude Bell Archive is held and is drawn from Bell’s prolific correspondence, papers and photographs, and will also feature… Read more

Flying Scotsman The record-breaking locomotive has been painstakingly restored over the past decade and the result is set to be unveiled later this month. Following this the steam engine will be the focus of a… Read more

JANUARY January started off with Museums + Heritage Advisor in the midst of a website redesign and our first of a series of In Focus features on Controlling the Environment was published. We also reported on the… Read more

How does PLB today compare to PLB in 1990? On the one hand we’ve changed massively, and yet on the other hand, we are still very much the same approachable, creative company we began as. Since 1990 the… Read more

The Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence are now in their 13th year and offer all cultural organisations, regardless of size, the opportunity to be recognised and celebrated for the quality of their work. There are a total of 12… Read more

Using technology in museums can start from the smallest of organisations creating a Twitter account to engage and pass on essential information to their audience to more ambitious projects such as Kendal Museum in Cumbria digitising its entire natural history… Read more

The Lost Palace launched an open competition in the summer to design a visitor experience that will utilise state-of-the-art digital storytelling to enable visitors to experience and reimagine the lost history of Whitehall Palace, the seat of many nation-changing events. Read more