Up to 40,000 people took part in 130 events as part of the inaugural Fun Palaces event across the UK at the weekend in a celebration of engagement in art and science… Read more

The Victorian Society has revealed its annual Top Ten Most Endangered Victorian and Edwardian Buildings in England and Wales 2014… Read more

Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (HCPT), with partners Worcestershire County Council and Museums Worcestershire have been awarded the money to preserve the historic Castle… Read more

The Old Furnace is to be recognised as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution with prestigious award… Read more

International Slavery Museum receives Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant to develop its collections… Read more

More than 125 Fun Palaces will spring up across the country tomorrow and Sunday featuring a fun forest, mermaids and a plethora of theatre-related events as part of a mass celebration of art and science. Read more

Gaye Blake-Roberts, director of the Wedgwood museum, has told Museums + Heritage Advisor how she and her team were shocked at the speed at which the collection was saved… Read more

With some of the UK’s most iconic museums looking to refurbish and modernise, the problem of how to safely move and store priceless artefacts during renovation is becoming a strategic challenge. Read more

The Springbok Experience Rugby Museum, designed by leading museum design consultancy, Mather & Co is celebrating its first birthday with a record 41,000-visitor attendance in its first year, and a new exhibit for the museum. Read more

Levy Restaurants UK is a leading catering service for the leisure sector and has worked with a variety of museums and heritage attractions creating bespoke food offerings to enhance the visitors’ experience. Here Jonathan Davidson, Levy Restaurants’ Business Director, talks… Read more

The finest of the four surviving original Magna Carta documents will have a new permanent display at Salisbury Cathedral from February 2015 with the help of a £415,800 award from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Read more

To mark the redevelopment of the Our Dynamic Earth galleries in Edinburgh, Antenna has released a downloadable app of the current on-site tour available on iOS and Android platforms. The app will guide users through 13.8 billion years of the… Read more

For many years the powerbase of the Prince Bishops of Durham, who safe-guarded the North of England against the marauding Scots, Auckland Castle in County Durham is now the focus of ambitious plans which place it at the centre of… Read more

The Great Gallery was originally built by Sir Richard Wallace between 1872-5 as part of his major extension of Hertford House to accommodate his collection’s move from Paris to London. The Gallery was positioned behind the private living quarters in… Read more

Paragon Creative is delighted to have been shortlisted for a 'Dare to Export' award at the 2014 York Press Business Awards. Read more

Having run a successful crowd-funding campaign at the Bowes Museum, Alison Nicholson, their Digital Communications Manager, was asked to participate when the Art Fund established “Art Happens”, their curated crowdfunding platform. One of the first projects on Art Happens was… Read more

James Robinson is a Heritage Photographer at The Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care, based in the magnificent John Rylands Library in Manchester. Here they specialize in digitisation and collection care of all manner of heritage collections, both within… Read more

Peter Latchford OBE is Chief Executive of Black Radley Consultancy and Visiting Professor of Enterprise at Birmingham City University. Here he tells Advisor why creating an environment in which enterprise can flourish is key for museums adapting to financial climate… Read more

One of Norwich’s most famous landmarks, Norwich Castle, has successfully gone live with Syx Automations. Read more

The recent refurbishment of the OUMNH provided the perfect opportunity to carry out a major relighting project using a revolutionary bespoke lighting design. Richard Francis, of Monard Electrical talks to Advisor. Read more