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Never-Before-Seen King Tut Treasures Go On View at Grand Egyptian Museum

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This article was first published by Artnet. The long anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), originally slated for July, is finally going ahead this weekend. The $1 billion, 120-acre complex just outside Cairo promises to take visitors on an epic journey through 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian history with over 50,000 artifacts and a fleet […]

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London Art+Climate Week 12-16 November: presented by Gallery Climate Coalition and gowithYamo

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This article was written by the Gallery Climate Coalition and gowithYamo. In alignment with COP30, galleries, institutions and non-profits spaces from across London are coming together to inspire climate action in the arts. Presented by Gallery Climate Coalition and gowithYamo, the inaugural edition sees over 25 participants present a rich programme over five days, uniting […]

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Museums are not ‘secret vaults’, say world’s museum leaders

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This article was first published by the Museums Association. Directors and curators at leading cultural institutions around the world have signed a letter in solidarity with the Musée du Louvre after it was robbed of some of its most precious artefacts on Sunday 19 October. British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan, Victoria & Albert Museum head […]

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Alarm raised over DCMS overruling official listing advice

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This article was first published by the Twentieth Century Society. In news broken exclusively by the AJ, C20 Society and other heritage campaigners have voiced alarm after figures showed a leap in ministers rejecting advice to protect historic buildings from the Government’s own statutory advisor. Analysis carried out by the Architects’ Journal using Freedom of Information, showed […]

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A Decade of Digitization: How Museums Are Saving the Planet, One Specimen at a Time

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This article was first published by MuseumNext. The Natural History Museum in London holds 80 million specimens — and 80 million stories. For decades, these stories lived behind the scenes, accessible only to researchers. Now, they’re being unlocked one pixel at a time. “Globally, natural history collections hold some 1.1 billion objects,” said Jennifer Pullar, […]

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‘An important piece of Black history’: Topher Campbell’s Tate commission at risk of destruction

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This article was first published by The Art Newspaper. A sculpture by the artist Topher Campbell, commissioned by Tate Modern as part of an installation which aimed to create a space for Black Queer expression and creativity, faces destruction if a new home cannot be found for it by the end of October. My Body Is […]

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Guide on digitisation of documentary heritage in challenging locations now available in Ukrainian

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This article was written by The British Library. Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations, a how-to guide for all who are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project was published in 2018 by Open Book Publishers. The book was written by Patrick Sutherland, Adam Farquhar, Jody Butterworth and Andrew Pearson. Tailored to […]

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ICOM Dubai Conference 2025

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Held every three years, the ICOM General Conference is a global event in the museum field, bringing together thousands of professionals from all over the world to shape the future of museums through dialogue, exchange, and collaboration. ICOM Dubai 2025 conference will be hybrid, enabling global participation. Visionary speakers, including renowned museum professionals and cultural […]

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Help shape a new museum ‘matchmaking’ service!

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We invite you to take part in a short survey, commissioned by ICOM UK and the British Council, as part of our research project to explore a potential “matchmaking” service to make connections between UK and international museums. Whether you lead, work with, in, or collaborate alongside museums of any size or focus, your input to this study would be […]

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