Easter opening date for £27m Perth Museum
A new museum in Perth costing £27m has been given an official opening date for 2024. Perth Museum will open after a multi-mi…
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Glasgow museums shut amid staff strikes
Museums in Glasgow are closed this week due to industrial action taken by staff over plans to cut jobs. Members of Unison working…
Museum closes due to Storm Babet floods
The Museum of Making in Derby will be closed after it suffered "significant" damage from flooding caused by Storm Babet….
British Museum digitises collection to prevent thefts
The British Museum has announced plans to digitise its collection in response to the stolen artefacts scandal that has embroiled t…
Glasgow museums says £3m sculpture is missing
A statue thought to be worth £3m is currently “unlocated” in Glasgow’s collections, museum officials have…
Museum Wales pay off ‘may have breached law’
Auditor says a £325,698 settlement with former Director General may have breached the requirements of charity law.
Museum alters trans exhibit amid defamation concerns
Weston Museum said it removed the wording from an exhibition on trans issues after concerns were raised that it could be perc…
Liverpool museum evacuated by police bomb squad
The Museum of Liverpool was evacuated on Tuesday (10 October) following reports that a World War Two “training device”…
Vagina Museum to reopen after exceeding fundraising target
London’s Vagina Museum will reopen on 4 November after a successful fundraising drive. The museum was forced to close its do…
Heritage Fund selects first areas for place-based funding
Funder to offer ringfenced support to 20 towns, cities and landscapes across the UK as part of its new 10-year strategy.
Releasing the potential of UK heritage
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has launched its 10-year strategy – Heritage 2033. Its Chief Executive, Eilish McGuinness…
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…
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…
