Young V&A to open in July
A museum designed with and for young people will open in London on 1 July. Young V&A, in London’s Bethnal Green, is the…
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Museums ‘running out of space for historic artefacts’
Museums in England could soon run out of space for historic artefacts, according to a new report commissioned by Historic England…
Durham Light Infantry Museum set to reopen
A museum in Durham that closed in 2016 due to council cuts is set to reopen. Durham County Council's planning committee has ap…
A paradox for George’s marbles
Can a solution be found to the dilemma of the Elgin/Parthenon marbles? asks William Hancock.
London home for Migration Museum gets nod
The Migration Museum will be based across three floors of a 21-storey tower, provided rent-free by property developer who was a ch…
U-turn on plans to mobilise Museum of Cardiff
Cardiff Council has dropped plans to turn the Museum of Cardiff into a mobile attraction. The council proposed the move, which wou…
Welsh football museum gets £5m funding boost
Plans for a Welsh national football museum have received a £5.4m boost from the Welsh Government. The money will go to…
Change to definition of ‘treasure’ will help museums, says Minister
Proposed changes to the legal definition of ‘treasure’ will help museums acquire important historical items, the UK&rs…
Strike forces British Museum to close for three days
Staff members take part in week-long strike action organised by their union, as they call for a 10% pay rise in light of the risin…
Jersey heritage sites to open all year round
Jersey Heritage has decided to open almost all of its heritage sites year-round following increases in government funding and loca…
Sensory-based project aims to improve museum access
Project to create new ‘sensory logic’ in museums, by considering the role the senses play in the collection and displa…
Heritage sites welcomed record visitors in 2022
A number of historic heritage sites across England saw record increases in visitor numbers in 2022, according to figures from Engl…
East End Women’s Museum abandons plan for permanent home
A plan to create a permanent home for the East End Women’s Museum in Barking town centre has been scrapped. The trustees of…
Pleasure, connection, purpose: How museums can leverage emotions
Museums are not only holders of our histories and stories, but also repositories of a range of emotions, elicited when we encounte…
Bid to secure Northern Ireland’s first Cultural World Heritage site
Northern Ireland is hoping to secure its first Cultural World Heritage site through a joint bid with the USA and Germany. The prop…
Additional funding for Museums Galleries Scotland
The Scottish Government has announced an additional £500,000 of funding for Museums Galleries Scotland this financial year t…
Jobs under threat at Hampshire Cultural Trust
Up to 20 redundancies could be made at a cultural charity in Hampshire despite it becoming a new member of Arts Council England…
ACE cuts funding for museum development work
Changes to Arts Council England's Museum Development programme include a 6% funding cut, a restructure of the programme and ne…
British Museum closes due to strike action
Decision taken to close British Museum due to strike action affecting some of the UK’s largest museum and heritage organisat…
Museum summit aims to engage young people
A new initiative hopes to engage young people in debating the future of the museums sector in the UK. Organised by Kids in Museums…
Vagina Museum forced to vacate premises
The Vagina Museum has received notice it must vacate its current premises by the end of the week. In a statement released on Twitt…
Royal Opera House ends sponsorship deal with BP
The Royal Opera House is ending its sponsorship relationship with oil giant BP after 33 years. In a statement the opera house said…
V&A urged to return religious relic to Cork
A politician in Cork is calling on the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to return an Irish religious relic thought to have bee…
UK’s largest museum collaboration plans to inspire children
Around 500 museums will collaborate on project aimed at inspiring children to visit museums and create artworks responding to the…
