An email (via MailChimp) was sent to ICOM UK members on Monday 5 June with details of the online 2023 AGM taking place on Friday 16 June, as well as the link to register for the online AGM. If you have unsubscribed from the ICOM UK mailing list, you will not receive any communications from […]
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This article was first published by ICOM. On 17-20 May 2023, the ICOM Head of Heritage Protection Department travelled to Lviv, Ukraine to represent the museum community at the conference Cultural Heritage Crime: In Wartime and Beyond. The event was organised by the European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM) – Ukraine, with the aim of bringing together […]
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Between the 20th and the 28th of August 2022, Prague hosted the biggest and most important conference of museums in the world. Discover all about the 26th ICOM General Conference in the new ICOM Prague 2022 report. After 25 successful editions, ICOM’s flagship conference has become a worldwide reputed hub for exchange about the topical […]
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This article was first published by The Guardian. BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum has ended after 27 years, new disclosures make clear, bringing to a close one of the highest-profile and most controversial of such deals in recent years, and marking the almost complete retreat of the fossil fuel giant from the British arts world. In its most […]
This article was first published by POLITICO. Australia and the U.K. are negotiating the return of culturally sensitive Aboriginal artifacts from British museums, according to Australia’s High Commissioner in London. Stephen Smith told POLITICO that “as we speak we’re working on the return of a range of artifacts to Australia” and that this was “part […]
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This article was first published by The Guardian. In this series of letters, Dr Mark Liebenrood addresses museum closures, Fergus Nicoll looks at the situation in Sudan, and Blaine Stothard on why it’s vital that cultural institutions retain the past and record the present. Charlotte Higgins is right to highlight the straitened circumstances of the UK’s museums (War has shown Ukrainians […]
This article was first published by Museums + Heritage Advisor. Arts Council England has launched the second round of its Capital Investment Programme, through which it plans to invest up to £20 million to help cultural organisations adapt buildings, equipment and other assets. The programme will provide grants from £100,000 – £750,000 to help organisations […]
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This article was first published by NEMO. The European Commission has presented the results of its study on “Greening the Creative Europe programme” that was launched in 2021. NEMO was consulted to offer insights and input from the museum sector in early 2022 and in a workshop series in November 2022. The aim for the […]
This article was first published by The Art Newspaper. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) new open-access storage building in east London has just been completed, providing a home for over 250,000 objects. In a few days the process of transferring the collection will begin in what a museum spokesperson describes as “the UK’s biggest […]
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