ACE appoints museum development partners
Five regional providers have been appointed to deliver Arts Council England's Museum Development programme for 2024 to 2026. A…
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DCMS pushes ‘retain and explain’ approach on contested statues
Guidance designed to help custodians of controversial public statues and monuments deal with calls for their removal has been publ…
Museums in Oxford return ancestral Aboriginal remains
A handover ceremony has taken place to mark the repatriation of ancestral remains from two museums in Oxford to Aboriginal communi…
Financial climate for museums to ‘get worse before it gets better’
The cost-of-living crisis continues to impact museums across England, and the situation is expected to get worse before it gets be…
Partial closure of York Castle Museum after concrete discovery
Several galleries at York Castle Museum have been closed following the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC)…
Hampshire arts venues threatened by proposed funding cuts
Hampshire Culture Trust has said the closure of multiple museums and arts venues across the county is “inevitable” if…
British Museum launches webpage to recover stolen objects
The British Museum has announced the launch of a webpage that aims to help recover some of the almost 2,000 antiquities that have…
There is plenty of room in museums for all of us
In response to criticism of new guidance on trans inclusive practice in museums, its authors Suzanne MacLeod, Richard Sandell, Sha…
Planning permission granted for Somerset Shoemakers Museum
A museum detailing the history of the shoe brand Clarks has been granted planning permission. Located in Street, Somerset, the Sho…
Heritage sites to be ‘transformed into community hubs’
National Lottery Heritage Fund says money provided to heritage sites will fund restorations that will 'breathe new life into h…
Guide launched to help describe artworks for blind people
A new describing art guide aims to support art galleries and museums to make their collections more accessible for blind and parti…
Trans inclusion guidance for museums is high risk
Earlier this month, the University of Leicester published guidance on trans-inclusive practice for museums. Denise Fahmy and Audre…
Derby Museums facing ‘existential challenge’
National Portfolio Organisation warns that reductions in public funding combined with rising costs makes its current business mode…
Conservation costs at National Trust hit record high
The National Trust (NT) has reported spending a record £179m on conserving its historic buildings and collections last year….
Funding for traditional heritage crafts project in Rochdale
A heritage project to explore, celebrate and preserve the heritage crafts of refugee and asylum seeker communities in Rochdale wil…
AHRC funds research into blind people’s experience of art
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded £250k for research into how blind people experience art in museu…
Majority of heritage sector yet to utilise AI
Latest Heritage Pulse survey finds almost two thirds of heritage organisations are yet to consider how they might use AI in the fu…
Museum closes on safety grounds during ‘gender critical’ event
Trans rights activists demonstrated outside a museum where a gender critical group was meeting, with police in attendance.
Unravelling the legalities of the stolen British Museum artefacts
The scandal of the British Museum thefts has sparked an immense, international public reaction but, as litigation expert Rosie Adc…
Community is the foundation of culture
Heritage Open Days returns with thousands of free events and experiences. The National Trust’s Tom Freshwater reflects on wh…
British Museum: From looter to looted
From the perspective of Greece or Nigeria, the word irony hardly does justice to the sad spectacle unfolding at the British Museum…
Art Fund awards £1m to boost inclusion in curatorial staff
Art Fund has awarded £1m in grants for museums and galleries to improve inclusion in the workforce. The funding co…
Museum floats homes development plan ‘to safeguard future’
A museum in Hampshire has submitted plans to build homes on its site in order to generate income to secure its future. Bursledon B…
Museum returns Aboriginal artefacts
Manchester Museum has announced a large-scale repatriation of artefacts from its collection. The programme will see 174 cultural h…
