Opinion Piece: Museums and Climate Protesters

The impact of the recent Just Stop Oil (JSO) protests against climate change has not been a change in government policy. Instead, the protests have achieved uncertainty and even splits within the museum community. Some argue that museums are the guardians of cultural heritage which is threatened by the JSO protests; others make the case […]

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Museums & Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief: ‘How To’ Webinars

The Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief is the eighth in a series of creative reliefs introduced by government. It is designed to support organisations to create, and tour public facing exhibitions by helping them to recover some of their production costs. Hosted by Arts Council England, the webinars will take place on zoom, on Friday 24 […]

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Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) Round 3

This is an open-access capital fund targeted at non-national Accredited museums and local authorities based in England to apply for funding to undertake vital infrastructure and urgent maintenance backlogs which are beyond the scope of day-to-day maintenance budgets. The impacts we expect this fund to achieve are that:  The outcomes we expect to see from recipients […]

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AHRC-funded Sensational Museum

This article was first published by the Museums Association. The £1m Sensational Museum project, which will acknowledge the diversity and difference of all visitors, begins in April and will run until July 2025. It will focus on two key areas: how museums manage the objects in their collections and how the stories behind these objects are communicated […]

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Toolkit for empowering museum professionals with digital skills

This article was first published by NEMO. To support museum professionals with a more nuanced understanding of the possibilities and implications of digital technologies to facilitate more sustainable digital transformation, the DigMus project has developed a toolkit that covers Digital maturity, Data-driven museum management and Digital communication. Conscious of different approaches to digitisation in situ […]

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Improving the building performance of museums

This article was first published by IMT (Institute for Market Transformation) IMT is committed to decarbonizing all buildings, and IMT recently spoke to Joyce Lee, WELL AP, LEEP AP, BEMP about an article she cowrote on improving museum building performance. Currently, she is head of the green health practice at IndigoJLD and chairs the American Alliance of […]

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Manchester Museum re-opening with late nights once a week

This article was first published by the Manchester Evening News Like the movies of the same name, you’ll be able to enjoy a ‘night at the museum’ when the Manchester Museum reopens this month. It’s launching a new series of film and music nights called ‘Museum Lates’. The museum will open late each Wednesday, until […]

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ICOM expresses its solidarity with Türkiye and Syrian Arab Republic following deadly earthquakes

The President of ICOM and the entire global ICOM network are deeply shocked by the earthquakes on Monday 6 February in the north-western Syrian Arab Republic and in the regions of central and southern Türkiye. The two earthquakes, the first of magnitude 7.8 on early Monday morning followed by a second earthquake of 7.5 in […]

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UNESCO sounds alarm over earthquake damage to Türkiye and Syria heritage sites

This article was first published by The Times of Israel The UN’s cultural agency UNESCO said on Tuesday it was ready to provide assistance after two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating earthquake. As well as the damage to the old city of Syria’s Aleppo […]

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