Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2025 Conference

Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2025 Conference Choose Your Own Future: Resilient Communities and Sustainable Solutions  When: 29 – 31 July 2025 Where: Durham University and via Pheedloop The call for papers for the 2025 Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference is now open. They welcome proposals for online and in person contributions noting the deadline of Monday 14 October […]

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The DCMS Ministerial Team has been confirmed

This article was first published by the UK Government. The Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister for Creative Industries, Arts, and Tourism Stephanie Peacock MP, Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth Baroness Fiona Twycross, Minister for Gambling […]

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‘These are terrible crimes’: A Ukrainian museum director’s fight to recover art

This article was first published by the Art Newspaper. Alina Dotsenko has been the director of the Kherson Art Museum in southern Ukraine since 1989. When Kherson was under Russian occupation in 2022, she attempted to save the museum’s art by telling the occupying officials that it had been removed for the building’s renovation. Dotsenko was […]

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Contribute to questionnaire on museums and political influence

This article was first published by NEMO (Network of European Museum Organisations). NEMO has launched an anonymous questionnaire to gather an overview of the status quo of political influence and effects of polarisation on museums in Europe. The results will feed into discussions at the NEMO European Museum Conference and help build a general standpoint […]

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The Times and British Museum debate: Who owns the past?

The Times have released an online debate co-hosted by The Times and the British Museum considering the question “Who owns the past? The role of the universal museum in future” The debate featured Mary Beard, Munira Mirza, David Olusoga and Rory Stewart, and chaired by Matthew Parris. […]

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Labour will ‘put rocket boosters’ under museum and heritage sector, says Nandy

This article was first published by the Museum Association. The newly appointed culture secretary Lisa Nandy has promised to use the cultural and creative industries to drive economic renewal. In her first national address to industry leaders this week, Nandy outlined her vision for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), saying that drive, […]

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Cultural Protection Conference Invitation – IAASF 2024

The International Arts and Antiquities Forum (IAASF) are holding a Cultural Protection Conference in County Durham, England on the 16th and 17th of October 2024 dedicated to the protection of cultural venues and how resilience is at the heart of it all. They will be welcoming international speakers from Egypt, India, the Middle East, Hungary, […]

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Iraq retrieves smuggled Mesopotamian treasures

This article was first published by The National News. Iraq has recovered 181 artefacts that had been smuggled out of the country, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The ancient artefacts were handed over to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities by the Foreign Ministry at a ceremony in Baghdad. Among them were a […]

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