The National Galleries of Scotland and Tate have announced that Phyllida Barlow will be the 40th artist to join the Artist Rooms collection with her untitled: upturnedhouse, 2, made in 2012, going on display… Read more

Frances Morris has been named the new director of Tate Modern with current director, Chris Dercon stepping down later this year – after five years at the helm – to take up a new position as artistic… Read more

A two-stage architectural competition for a new Museum of London will get underway in February for a new museum, supported by the Mayor of London, with the winner to be announced in the summer. The site at… Read more

Saat Saath Arts Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by philanthropist Aparajita Jain, has launched an annual grant that facilitates visionary international curators to visit India The curatorial research grant has the long-term goal of fostering cultural exchange with India and… Read more

Richard Pailthorpe, Director of the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, has announced that he will be focusing on delivering the Museum’s £5.5million new Gateway Project for the most of the next 18 months as its Project Director. Read more

The Interventive Conservation success guide is the latest in a series of Success Guides that aim to assist museums, galleries and heritage sites in maintaining their collections more effectively The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) has published a new Success… Read more

The ten students on the Museum and Gallery Skills Diploma at Kendal Museum, a teaching museum for Kendal College, were on hand to rescue objects from both the museum and the 14th century Castle Dairy. Following storm… Read more

The Flying Scotsman has been fully restored in one of the most complex and lengthy overhauls for a steam locomotive ever undertaken and will now continue her life as one of the world’s most famous steam engine. The Scotsman will… Read more

The relocation of the Museum of London is set to take place after redevelopment plans for the Victorian Smithfield Market were abandoned The museum said it does not currently have the space to present its collections properly, or demonstrate the… Read more

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