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What Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age? Museums get involved in Torch lecture series
The Humanities and the Digital Age series will explore the relationship between Humanities and the digital world and will consider digital’s at once disruptive and creative potential as well as imagining future ground for exploration. In this opening… Read more
Culture Minister puts temporary export bar on 17th century Italian cabinets worth £1.2m
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the 300-year-old ebony cabinets to provide an opportunity to save them for the nation. Experts say that they are among the most important cabinets from Rome left in Britain… Read more
V&A Museum designed exhibition features at this week’s World Economic Forum
V&A Museum designed exhibition features at this week’s World Economic Forum With the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum, which opens today – Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution – as context, the exhibition presents six scenarios where the radical… Read more
Artist Rooms announces 40th artist and dedicated gallery at new Tate Modern
The National Galleries of Scotland and Tate have announced that Phyllida Barlow will be the 40th artist to join the Artist Rooms collection with her untitled: upturnedhouse, 2, made in 2012, going on display… Read more
Tate Modern appoints new director as it prepares to open new £260m space
Frances Morris has been named the new director of Tate Modern with current director, Chris Dercon stepping down later this year – after five years at the helm – to take up a new position as artistic… Read more
Museum of London launches architectural competition to transform new home at Smithfield Market
A two-stage architectural competition for a new Museum of London will get underway in February for a new museum, supported by the Mayor of London, with the winner to be announced in the summer. The site at… Read more
Arts Foundation launches curatorial research grant to encourage Indian exchanges
Saat Saath Arts Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by philanthropist Aparajita Jain, has launched an annual grant that facilitates visionary international curators to visit India The curatorial research grant has the long-term goal of fostering cultural exchange with India and… Read more
Weald & Downland Museum’s director to take charge of £5.5million gateway project
Richard Pailthorpe, Director of the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton, has announced that he will be focusing on delivering the Museum’s £5.5million new Gateway Project for the most of the next 18 months as its Project Director. Read more
AIM publishes new museum Success Guide on Interventive Conservation
The Interventive Conservation success guide is the latest in a series of Success Guides that aim to assist museums, galleries and heritage sites in maintaining their collections more effectively The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) has published a new Success… Read more
Museum students assist in salvage efforts in Kendal as floods hit historic buildings
The ten students on the Museum and Gallery Skills Diploma at Kendal Museum, a teaching museum for Kendal College, were on hand to rescue objects from both the museum and the 14th century Castle Dairy. Following storm… Read more
Flying Scotsman back on track following decade-long £4.2m restoration
The Flying Scotsman has been fully restored in one of the most complex and lengthy overhauls for a steam locomotive ever undertaken and will now continue her life as one of the world’s most famous steam engine. The Scotsman will… Read more
Museum of London’s relocation plans to Smithfield Market get go-ahead
The relocation of the Museum of London is set to take place after redevelopment plans for the Victorian Smithfield Market were abandoned The museum said it does not currently have the space to present its collections properly, or demonstrate the… Read more
Museums among 16 organisations through to £57m second stage of ACE capital grants programme
Most of these 16 projects focus on the refurbishment or extension of existing arts buildings and range from upgrades of spaces to large scale renovations. The successful applicants have now been invited to complete a stage two application within the… Read more
Great North Museum: Hancock announces new exhibition The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell
The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell is the result of a collaboration between the museum and Newcastle University where the extensive Gertrude Bell Archive is held and is drawn from Bell’s prolific correspondence, papers and photographs, and will also feature… Read more
PLB celebrate 25 years and (almost) a thousand projects as part of the museum and heritage sector
How does PLB today compare to PLB in 1990? On the one hand we’ve changed massively, and yet on the other hand, we are still very much the same approachable, creative company we began as. Since 1990 the… Read more
Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence announces new award for volunteers
The Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence are now in their 13th year and offer all cultural organisations, regardless of size, the opportunity to be recognised and celebrated for the quality of their work. There are a total of 12… Read more