Maintaining precise temperature and humidity levels to protect its extensive artefact collection, while keeping energy costs and emissions down at its award winning Downland Gridshell Building, were key requirements for the management at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum… Read more

A £96,000 Arts Council England grant awarded to Norton Priory Museum & Gardens and the University of Liverpool will fund the development of a new form of carbon dating… Read more

The awards are part of a three-year £1.5m deal between the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) and waste management company Biffa… Read more

Museums and heritage attractions are asked to join trial participants and receive free report on what factors influence visitor spend… Read more

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