This article was first published by Art Fund. The Horniman Museum and Gardens was announced as Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 this evening at a ceremony at the Design Museum in London and live on the BBC. Located in Forest Hill, the Horniman Museum and Gardens is London’s only museum where environment, ecology and human […]
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This article was first published by the Museums Association. Glasgow Life is moving forward with plans to return more than 50 cultural artefacts in what would be the largest ever repatriation of objects from a single collection in Scotland. The cultural trust, which oversees Glasgow’s museums on behalf of the city council, held talks with […]
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Do you need funding to borrow works from national collections? Then apply to Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund, which is now open. The Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund provides funding and training for regional museums and galleries to secure important strategic loans from major UK collections. The grants cover up to 100% of […]
This article was first published by artnet. The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bangalore announced today that it will open its doors in the South Indian tech hub on December 11. According to a press release, MAP is the first new public museum to open in India in a decade. Spearheaded by founder, industrialist, and […]
In partnership with MGS, Climate Museum UK is offering a series of three two-hour online workshops to give a grounding in creative approaches to the climate emergency. They are open to all workers in Scottish museums. Topics include relating climate to social issues and culture; exploring how museum collections and programmes can engage with audiences […]
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Art Fund, the Museums Association, consultancy One Further and Cultural Associates Oxford are running a survey seeking to understand the impact of how digital projects have been developed and funded in the museum sector to date. The group would like to hear about digital projects museums are planning, and views about how they can be […]
From the beginning of the war not only authorities, but also a number of NGOs, began to document evidence of Russian crimes against infrastructural objects. One important example is the volunteer initiative Anti-Corruption Headquarters which has already calculated over 1,900 different levels of destruction to objects. It is also important to understand, according to Ministry […]
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ICOM, in close cooperation with its National Committee in Ukraine, is preparing an Emergency Red List of Cultural Objects at Risk for Ukraine to combat illicit traffic following the invasion. Since the Russian invasion into Ukraine in February 2022, ICOM, its National Committees, and its members have been working tirelessly to help support their fellow museum professionals […]
The ICOM Prague 2022 General Conference is celebrating the Power of Museums from August 20 to 28 in Prague. In addition to the scientific program and statutory meetings, the social program of the conference will be an opportunity to discover the highlights of Czech culture. PRECONFERENCE PROGRAMME: DISCOVER PRAGUE! 20–21 AUGUST An accompanying pre-conference programme […]
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