For the past 19 years, Edinburgh-based Memorabilia Pack Company has been creating a range of fascinating historical replica packs to supply museum gift shops. These attractive packages are stuffed with facsimile ephemera from bygone times and are beautifully designed. “They’re… Read more

The Desk where the classics Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood were written to go on display at author’s former London home… Read more

The Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI), Manchester will now go ahead with ambitious plans to expand following a £1.8 million grant from the Wellcome Trust… Read more

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the Statue of Sekhemka following its sale to an overseas buyer by Northampton Borough Council… Read more

Crown Fine Art has appointed shipping and logistics specialists David Giles, formerly of Momart, and Wayne Sewsanker, formerly of Bonhams and Butterfields, to the joint position of Operations Manager. Crown Fine Art delivers secure transportation, storage, installation and de-installation services… Read more

Mar Dixon curates a stream at the Museums + Heritage Show entitled New Technology on Thursday, 30 April, which includes a chance to try Google Glass… Read more

The Museum of London has laid out a new vision for the museum which involves relocating to the nearby market by 2021… Read more

Conservators at West Dean College used digital technology to bring back to working order a Chinese Pagoda automation clock… Read more

The Houses of Parliament have launched a new mobile app map to trace the country’s democratic hotspots… Read more

The Chairman of the Association of Independent Museums picks out the facts from a recent ACE-commissioned report which suggests it could be… Read more

New exhibition opens ahead of centenary of the torpedoing of passenger ship during WWI… Read more

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Professor Sir David Cannadine and Jane Kennedy as Trustees of Historic Royal Palaces… Read more

The Dry Stone Walling Association has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £220,400 for the Built Landscape Heritage Education and Training Project… Read more

At the heart of this free download are personal oral reminiscences and some of the best archive photography the region has to offer. Use this app to compare now and then. Listen to local residents’ personal stories that bring the… Read more

The not-for-profit contemporary art organisation has opened its new Contemporary Art Centre in a former Soviet-era naval headquarters… Read more

British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) has been exploring how cutting edge technology can alter the museum experience… Read more

Tate Britain today unveils the filters, a three-part installation by artist Christina Mackie (b. 1956)… Read more

Follow the 2015 #MuseumWeek to engage with museums at home and internationally, improve your use of Twitter and increase your followers… Read more