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Barbados to build new museum dedicated to slavery’s impact on the nation

The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has announced the creation of the Barbados Heritage District, including a museum, a memorial and a major...

Museum Curators Among the Most Trusted Professionals

According to the British market research organisation, Ipsos MORI, 86 per cent of people in the UK would trust museum curators, a recent survey by...

Smithsonian relaunches America’s first national museum with Futures exhibition

Imagine being an agent of the future and choosing between different strategies of how we might live in decades to come. Well, that’s the aim...

In conversation with Spencer Clark from ATS on creating great digital visitor experiences

The past year has definitely been an eventful one for ATS and its Managing Director, Spencer Clark. While the digital visitor experience company supported their...

Array Collective from Northern Ireland win The Turner Prize 2021

Belfast’s Array Collective have won the UK’s most lucrative art prize with an award of £25,000, which was presented by Pauline Black, the lead singer...

Museum of Brands launches three-year wellbeing programme for people with dementia

The Museum of Brands has launched a three-year wellbeing programme Living Brands, which will provide multi-sensory resources, training and reminiscing activities for people living with...

Vabamu Museum in Estonia showcases country’s rise from Soviet satellite to digital republic

The Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom in Estonia’s capital Tallinn has launched Why Estonia? 30 Years from the USSR to e-Estonia an exhibition that...

Burrell Collection launches drive for volunteers including those with dementia

As the Burrell Collection in Glasgow nears its reopening in March 2022, following a £68m refurbishment, it has launched a recruitment campaign with innovative volunteering...

Microsoft Launches Xbox Museum

The American technology giant Microsoft has announced that it will mark the twentieth anniversary of the launch of its iconic video game console – the...

VocalEyes to offer training to help museums make their websites more accessible

VocalEyes, a charity supporting blind and visually impaired people to access culture, has been awarded £99,814 from a £1m pot, part of the National Lottery...

Microplastic Researchers Refuse to Work with Museum over Fossil Fuel links

A pair of prominent scientists working in the field of plastic research have said that their work won’t be included in the Science Museum’s collection...

Uffizi Gallery introduces kids’ tour guides and new identity to boost youngsters’ visits

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence has revealed a new visual identity #UffiziKids at the weekend and introduced 40 dedicated staff who will help guide them...

Mobile Phone Museum launches as online repository for life-changing invention

The Mobile Phone Museum has opened its online carefully curated collection of more than 2,000 individual models from more than 200 different brands this week....

Museum of Science and Curiosity opens in disused Sacramento power station

It has been 16 years in the making but finally the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Museum of Science and Curiosity, or Mosac for short,...

Radiohead create immersive museum exhibition launched on gaming platform

To mark the 21st anniversary of the release of their albums Kid A and Amnesiac, Radiohead have created a museum exhibition in a computer game...

‘Searchable Museum’ launched by National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Searchable Museum is a new digital initiative by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) that offers online exhibitions, virtual...

Dozens of Looted Benin Artefacts Accounted For in the Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford recently added to the controversy surrounding stolen artefacts from Benin when it released an interim report that said it...

Norwegian Printing Museum relaunches in former canning factory

The Norwegian Printing Museum has relocated to the site of a former sardine canning factory in the historic district of  Stavanger in southwest Norway and...

Children takeover UK museums and reach 2m+ on social media

Last week 70 museums, galleries, archives and heritage sites across the UK were taken over by children and young people for the annual Kids in...

Qatar Museums create outdoor art museum for World Cup 2022

Qatar Museums (QM) is transforming the nation’s landscape into a vast outdoor art museum experience, in celebration of the country hosting the FIFA World Cup...

Manchester Museum begins pilot programme to train staff as social justice researchers

In a drive to connect with its local community and address poverty Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, has begun training 15 members...

MFA Boston Employees Strike Over Wages and Covid Safety

Staff members at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts staged a one-day strike in November to express their discontent over what they view as stalled contractual...

Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum announces first collaborative leadership role

  In an innovative new move, the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust has recently appointed two experienced museum professionals to job-share the role of museum manager at...

Museum of Home ‘Wants to Move Slave Owner Statue’

The Museum of the Home in London said that it is now considering moving a statue of a slave merchant that has been the cause...