The plans are being drawn up as part of the museum’s centenary legacy programme of developments that will see both RAF Museum sites transformed in celebration of the air force’s 100-year anniversary in 2018. Developments at the London site have… Read more

HLF launch new Heritage Endowments programme of  to promote more resilient future for UK Heritage This new Endowments programme has been designed to build a strong and resilient future for heritage, organisations and help them secure a regular source of… Read more

The stamps showcase some of the best loved surviving examples of Capability Brown’s work, and celebrate his contribution to landscape gardening including: Blenheim Palace, Longleat, Compton Verney, Highclere Castle, Alnwick Castle, Berrington Hall, Stowe and Croome Park. Lancelot Capability Brown is… Read more

In December 2014 Sir Peter Bazalgette the ACE’s outgoing chair, made a one of his ‘most important speeches’ to the arts and culture sector announcing a fundamental shift in the way the funding body approached diversity and made it a… Read more

Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) has received a confirmed grant of £4,677,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) towards a £12.6m project called the Endeavour Galleries that will be completed in mid-2018 in time for the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s… Read more

The London Fire Brigade Museum artefacts include more than 400 tunics and pairs of trousers, around 350 helmets and eleven vintage fire engines, which had to be hoisted onto special flat-bed trucks. Over the past month the majority… Read more

Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is launching a fundraising campaign to raise nearly £12,000 to secure five pieces for its collection ahead of the auction as part of the stunning Pilkington Collection and is also seeking to raise £50,000 to acquire… Read more

Lion Salt Works opened after a 30-year campaign to save the UK’s last open pan salt making site in Cheshire. A four-year restoration, part funded by a £5.2m HLF grant has turned a dilapidated structure into a museum,… Read more

From designing your own emoji to tuning in to the Last Night of the Proms, this list of #70things will help you unleash your creativity this summer say ACE. They are asking people to have a go… Read more

As the new Culture Secretary, I am already getting around the country – and the world – to demonstrate how culture, media and sport are all key parts of the Government’s overall industrial strategy. On my first day in my… Read more

It is Europe’s most excavated monastic site and following a major redevelopment by architects Buttress, Norton Priory can now offer a much improved visitor experience that fosters clearer interpretation of the site and its objects, and is more… Read more

The first packing crates have left the old Design Museum home in Shad Thames and are now filling the 1960s Grade II* listed former Commonwealth Institute building, which is being transformed into ‘the world’s foremost museum of… Read more

ACE, HLF and Historic England have today launched the Great Place Scheme that will see them work with councils, cultural organisations, universities and other stakeholders to increase access to culture locally, support jobs, economic growth, education, health and wellbeing. The… Read more

As we reported yesterday a total of 94 museums and organisations received a share of £12.2m from ACE’s Museum Resilience Fund, which supports museums to become more sustainable and resilient businesses With ACE changing its funding structure last month more… Read more

The Volunteer Makers model helps organisations engage, manage and grow their volunteer community, opening up volunteering to a wider demographic and connecting with the “long tail” of volunteers. Changes to traditional funding models mean volunteers are becoming increasing important to… Read more

Initiated and led by Northumberland-based Arts&Heritage, Meeting Point supported and worked with nine small and medium scale museums in the North East and Yorkshire during 2015/16 to create a series of exciting new ways of experiencing and looking at their… Read more

The Museum Resilience Fund, which complements the Arts Council’s investment in Major Partner Museums, focuses on gaps (geographical or otherwise) and development opportunities across the sector. The latest round sees a fall in the funding amount and numbers of… Read more

The National Museum of Oman, which spans is 13,700 sq m, has 14 permanent exhibitions and a dedicated gallery for temporary exhibitions and is the first museum in the Middle East to adopt open-plan storage concept. The… Read more

A major public appeal by the Art Fund and Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) – attracting 8,000 donations totalling £1.5m – to help the museum acquire the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, has succeeded thanks to a major… Read more