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Creating a better museum in financially challenging times

Ensuring that our museums continue to prosper in these difficult economic times is the major challenge facing the museum sector. One possible way forward for protecting museum’s in the future is through co-location and integration with other services to reduce… Read more

Audio Trails: Bringing Cornish mining stories to life

Without any doubt, Cornwall is special. It possesses distinctive landscapes and cultures forged by elemental forces and the passage of time, which have left a beautiful, rugged coastline and an interior comprising a magnificent patchwork of moors, hidden valleys and… Read more

ICMS – Wake up and think about your security

Representatives of security staff in many museums from all over the world are gathered in one of the International Committees under ICOM. This is the International Committee on Museum Security, which board consists of 7 persons from 7 different countries… Read more

Museum2Go: National Museums Scotland Schools Outreach

Museum2Go is a schools outreach project, designed to take learning beyond the confines of the museum environment, in to the wider community, reaching audiences that have previously not engaged with National Museums Scotland. We were invited to apply for funding… Read more

Lift Off for Port Canaveral Welcome Center

Port Canaveral has witnessed many significant milestones in American history from first nation settlements and New World exploration to NASA journeys into space. Celebrating their rich heritage, this busy cargo, cruise and naval port will soon boast a fantastic new… Read more

Derry-Londonderry a crucible of culture in 2013

Derry-Londonderry is the city to visit in 2013. The first ever UK City of Culture is playing host to a world-class programme of events which includes the Turner Prize presented outside England for the first time; a new commission by… Read more