You can now renew or apply online for 2024 ICOM UK membership. If you were a member of ICOM UK in 2022 and/or 2023, log into your account on the ICOM UK website to renew your membership for 2024 and receive your 2024 sticker before the new membership year starts on 1 January 2024. If […]
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This article was first published by the Middle East Eye. The deadly earthquake in Morocco on 8 September 2023 has damaged buildings in Marrakech’s Old City and parts of its historic walls. The area has been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1985. The disaster is likely to have a significant impact on the creative economy, an […]
The Sensational Museum ‘Strand A: Collections’ survey is now open. The questionnaire asks people working in the UK heritage sector and Collections Management System providers about their thoughts and experience on ‘multisensory’ and ‘accessibility’ in professional practice, the data models and the user interfaces related to collections management. If you would like to take part, […]
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As part of their 2023-25 Culture Connects Visual Arts programme in China, the British Council seeking a consultant to help them identify potential partners and areas of work in China. This contract is for a specialist arts consultant and Mandarin speaker, who can be based in either the UK or China, to oversee an exhibition […]
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This article was first published by the American Alliance of Museums. Daniel Fonner, Associate Director for Research at Southern Methodist University’s DataArts, explores the return of cultural heritage in the form of digital data. How can emerging digital tools help recreate cultural heritage that has been lost or destroyed? […]
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This article was first published by the Middle East Eye. Catastrophic flooding and landslides following Tropical Storm Daniel on 10 September 2023 have affected the ancient city of Cyrene, a 7th century Greek settlement in eastern Libya. Monuments are under threat of collapse and looting at the region’s sole UNESCO-listed site as well as in […]
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This article was first published by Business Wire. The market’s growth is propelled by a rising number of tourists who have a growing interest in art, culture, and history, as well as an increase in exhibitions, events, memberships, and educational programs offered by museums. […]
This article was first published by Hyperallergic. Police are standing guard outside the Zeche Zollern in Germany after the museum received right-wing backlash over suggested designated time slots for visitors who are Black, Indigenous, or belong to other racial and ethnic groups that have been historically harmed by colonialism. Located in Dortmund, the museum developed […]
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This article was first published by The Art Newspaper. The beleaguered British Museum’s most ambitious international loan of ancient Egyptian artefacts from its collections will arrive in Melbourne next year. In the midst of the British Museum’s crisis following the large-scale theft of objects from its collections, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne has […]
