The Wordsworth Trust, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, has secured support for a £4.75m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to transform the Wordsworth story in Grasmere within the heart of the Lake District. Read more

A bumper stack of entries arrived at the Museum + Heritage offices on Monday with entries from across the country and internationally packing the postie’s sack The awards, now in their 13th year, are continuing to generate public recognition for… Read more

The three galleries Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Birmingham Museums Trust and The Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool will host 24 exhibitions over three years, becoming national partners for the Collection,… Read more

Croome Court is an 18th mansion designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, whose 300th anniversary celebrations take place in the summer, with some of the interior by Robert Adam. It represented Capability Brown’s first landscape design and his… Read more

The V&A is planning to create the world’s most extensive collection on the art of photography by relocating more than 400,000 objects from SMG’s three-million-strong photography collection, held at the National… Read more

Arranged in reverse chronological order, Electronic Superhighway at Whitechapel Gallery begins with works made at the arrival of the new millennium, and ends with Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T), an iconic, artistic moment that took place… Read more

The new gallery provides a unique insight into many of the faith groups that make up Birmingham’s diverse communities, exploring their traditions, beliefs and customs in an accessible and welcoming environment. Each of the six largest… Read more

In July 2016 the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will open a fresh chapter in the story of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon with the transformation of the historic New Place site, which was home to Shakespeare and his family for 19 years during… Read more

Since January 2015 the MGS Heritage Horizons trainees have worked alongside professionals in museums and galleries across Scotland – from Orkney and Lewis and from Dundee to the Borders – to learn a wide range of core… Read more

Since Tate Modern opened in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, including Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds installation in 2010, reaching an audience of millions. Through… Read more

Following several weeks of painstaking protection and preservation work by Leeds Museums & Galleries during the house’s bookings-only season (November to February), the drawing room, along with the rest of the Tudor Jacobean mansion, is almost ready… Read more

The project aims to return heritage to the 1938 Grade II listed, purpose-built library and museum in Worksop for the first time since the museum was closed in 1983. Now, with the HLF development funding of £131,300,… Read more

Being Brunel is a major new museum and visitor experience that will be a national centre of expertise in the life and works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, situated opposite his great ship ss Great Britain. Demolition of… Read more

The 77 composite images represent a joining together of art and science. Benson painstakingly processes data from NASA and ESA missions to assemble the photographs for display. The exhibition features a soundscape of original music by Brian Eno and Museum… Read more

The Virgin of the Pomegranate is a masterpiece in an excellent state of conservation and the painting will now become one of the icons of the Museo del Prado The Royal Board of Trustees of the Museo… Read more

An expanded and transformed San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to open in May The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced that a its new building will open to the public on Saturday 14 May. Read more

Historic England has announced that the sculptures listed by the DCMS include an Anthony Gormley masterpiece, his first to be listed, three Barbara Hepworth sculptures, a Henry Moore outside the Houses of Parliament and pieces depicting a range… Read more

Museum Selfie Day brings the world’s museums together with 30k tweets and an 80m reach Museums and their visitors from around the world were tweeting like a rumbustious robin yesterday as they took part in the @MuseumSelfieDay Things began stirring… Read more

Museum Development Network offers help for Museums + Heritage Awards entrants As the deadline for entries to the Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence moves into the final ten days the Museum Development Network officers from around the UK are… Read more