National museums excluded from restitution law
A law that would have allowed the restitution of artefacts on moral grounds will not apply to national museums and galleries, the…
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Museum proposes using mine water for clean energy
The National Coal Mining Museum has proposed using geothermal heat to help it decarbonise. The museum pumps an average of 1.5m gal…
Bristol council set to vote on de-listing Colston statue
Plans to de-list a statue of the transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston so it can be permanently housed in a museum are set for…
Council votes to support museum’s overbudget renovations
Ipswich Borough Council (IBC) has voted to continue supporting the redevelopment of Ipswich Museum after a £2.7m overspend….
Government launches £24m fund for museum building projects
The government's Museum Estate and Development fund supports capital projects for museums.
Financial pressure taking ‘physical and mental’ toll on museum leaders
Study finds declining public investment levels have resulted in museum trusts using reserves to plug gaps, running the risk o…
Activists target Science Museum over fossil fuel sponsorship
A group of climate activists including Greta Thunberg protested the museum’s ongoing sponsorship deal with several fossil fu…
Museum workers to strike over cost-of-living payment
National Museums Liverpool said it is facing a £2m shortfall, making it "impossible" to pay employees the £1…
Art gallery put up for sale after funding runs out
An art gallery in Great Yarmouth that opened three years ago has been put on the market after failing to cover running costs once…
DCMS restarts search for a new V&A chair
Ministers have had to restart the process of recruiting a new chair for the V&A Museum, according to a report from Sky News. I…
Museum struggles to attract visitors after revamp
Dorset Museum and Art Gallery needs to triple its current footfall to meet increased running costs following a £16.4m expans…
Everybody is a winner
Art Fund has launched guidance on how UK museums, galleries, libraries and archives can acquire top quality objects for free or fo…
East London museum awarded £800k for restoration
Valence House Museum and Gardens in Dagenham will undergo £800k improvement works after securing external investment. The re…
Museum re-opens in former bank
Chatteris Museum in Cambridgeshire is reopening in a former Barclays bank branch two years after moving out of its old premises, h…
Collections Trust reviews weblinks policy after Hamas reference
Collections Trust has deleted a link to a terminology guide from its website following accusations that a section on Palestine des…
Scottish government commits £200,000 to ‘slavery museum’
All six recommendations of independent steering group, set up to advise on how museums and galleries can better reflect the countr…
Council seeks reallocation of government cash to save arts centre
Woking Council will ask the government if it can use money provided for digital strategy to keep an arts centre open. The BBC repo…
Activists urge architects to boycott British Museum redesign
Environmental campaigners are calling on architects not to take part in a contest to redesign around a third of the British Museum…
Scrapping free entry to Welsh museums ‘inevitable’
The introduction of admission fees at all national museum sites in Wales due to “critical” financial pressures has an…
V&A Dundee halves its major exhibit output to cut costs
V&A Dundee will reduce the number of major exhibitions it stages each year as part of “mitigating measures” to cut…
Natural heritage sites to share £15.6m of funding
National Lottery Heritage Fund will introduce a landscape and nature-focused initiative later this year as part of its 10-year str…
Scottish museums share £400,000 development funding
Museums Galleries Scotland has awarded grants worth £420,000 to nine projects via the Museum Development Fund. The pro…
Cornwall museum awarded £2.1m Levelling Up support
Successful grant bid for the Royal Cornwall Museum comes less than two years after it faced closure following a loss of council su…
Consultation on future of Leeds museum launches
Leeds City Council has launched a public consultation on proposals to end its lease on the site of a local heritage museum. The Th…
