This year is the 70th Anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which was created on the 14 May 1954. It is also the 25th Anniversary of its Second Protocol, which was opened for signature on 24 March 1999. Today, these treaties are the […]
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This article was published by The Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the appointment of a Head of Provenance Research, a new position within the Director’s Office created to coordinate such research efforts across the Museum. Lucian Simmons, who most recently served as Vice Chairman and Worldwide Head of the Restitution Department and Senior […]
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This article was first published by the Dr Guislain Museum. In June 2024, the Dr. Guislain Museum in Ghent will team up with City Museum Tilburg, Textile Museum and Arts & Sciences University College London. Together they’ll deliver the International Spring School Cultural Heritage & Wellbeing: Textile Cities from Monday 3 until Friday 7 Juni […]
This article was first published by The Society of Antiquaries of London. After successful talks with The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the other Learned Societies of Burlington House have been granted a 999-year leasehold agreement. This agreement will allow them to protect the scientific and […]
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This article was first published by The Standard. The British Museum has been warned there is a “medium risk” of unexploded Second World War bombs on its Bloomsbury site. It comes after the museum carried out a survey as it prepares to build a new energy centre which aims to deliver a more efficient heating system for the sprawling […]
This article was first published by the Heritage Fund. When the Heritage Fund launched its £10million pilot programme to make heritage relevant to young people in 2016, it had multiple aims. Most important among them: providing experiences of heritage for people aged 11–25 in a range of engaging and creative ways. It was crucial for […]
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This article was first published by EuroNews. Female artists take centre stage at Athens museum. Spanning the entirety of 2024, this ambitious project features solo exhibitions, special projects, and large-scale installations by women artists and those who identify as female. The next instalment of ‘What If Women Ruled the World?’, which commenced in December last […]
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The ICOM membership year runs from 1 January to 31 December, and if you join now you are still receiving amazing benefits, including: Further information on membership benefits, the cost of membership and joining instructions are here: […]
ICOM UK Student and Emerging Professionals Working Group is a project initiated from the meeting ‘Career challenges facing Students and Early Career Professionals’ in ICOM UK’s 2022 Working Internationally Conference ‘Cynefin: Museum Practice for Future Generations’, in which challenges and psychological discrepancies many students and emerging professionals face when they first enter the cultural sector. Since April 2022, we […]
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