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UK’s largest 200 million-year-old ichthyosaurus to star in new gallery at Birmingham Science Museum
The centrepiece of the new Marine Worlds gallery, which opens on Friday at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum will be the 200 million-year-old fossil remains of a prehistoric marine reptile. The dolphin-like ichthyosaurus would have been at home… Read more
V&A partners with Chinese enterprise group to launch world-class design museum
The collaboration, the first of its kind between a UK museum and a Chinese partner, comprises the provision of professional advice and training to help CMSK establish and develop a world class design museum; the concept, development and design of… Read more
Digital.Bodleian – providing a single search and discovery interface for existing digitised collections
The desire of the Digital.Bodleian Project was to migrate multiple silos of content – content which had been put online by the Bodleian Library at various times over the previous 15 years – into a single storage… Read more
Cynefin project – National Library of Wales – repairing and digitising the country’s tithe maps
The Cynefin project is a three year project launched in October 2013 and set for completion this autumn, which involves digitising more than 1,000 tithe maps, includes substantial conservation work on the majority of them. There are… Read more
Collections Dive at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums – finding new ways to present digital content
The Collections Dive at TWAM is an alternative mode of presenting the collections for discovery and although it is not presenting any records online for the first time (objects presented were already digitised and made available by… Read more
National Museum of Scotland’s Fossil Hunters: Unearthing the Mystery of Life on Land uncovers lost period of evolution
National Museums Scotland’s Fossil Hunters: Unearthing the Mystery of Life on Land is the result of a four-year NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) funded project to unearth fossils that can fill a 15-20m-year gap in the understanding… Read more
KAWS – Yorkshire Sculpture Park fights through snow and ice to put on artist’s captivating show
The ambitious KAWS exhibition, which opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) last weekend, was put together in an incredible six months’ time frame and includes both indoor and outdoor installations. The exhibition surveys sculptures made over… Read more
Professional Development in the cultural sector: finding new ways to develop a skilled and diverse workforce
At the Museums Association conference in November Sir Peter Luff, Chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and HLF announced that there would be a third round of the SFF programme. This pledge was a shot in the arm for… Read more