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It is a simple construction, made from the remnants of a boat carrying refugees wrecked near the Italian island of Lampedusa, close to the coast...
The odds of peaceful dialogue between North and South Korea were seemingly shattered last year when Pyongyang blew up a joint liaison office in its...
A £1m donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies will allow the innovative Multaka-Oxford project at Oxford University’s History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum to run...
Homelessness in the UK is on the rise year-on-year but in March 2020 as the World Health Organisation announced COVID-19 as a pandemic it seemed...
At the end of last month Manchester Museum closed its doors until October 2022 to put the finishing touches to its £13.5m Hello Future project,...
There are few (if any) cultural organisations in the world today that would argue with the need to make sustainability a top priority for the...
In the past few years, museums across the US, Europe, and Australia are trying to tackle the challenge of decolonizing their institutions. However, the very...
If 2020 was a year that put social justice issues in the spotlight, 2021 will be a year for some landmark changes to remedy these...
In 2016 the Mental Health Foundation released a document titled Fundamental Facts about Mental Illness 2016, which stated that problems concerning mental health are one...
Are museums activists? Should they be activists? I would argue that museums have an opportunity to bring activism, however subtly, into their galleries. With the...
How can you decolonise museums? This presentation shares how Birmingham Museum collaborated with local cultural activists with a strong record of challenging museums to create...
You may be surprised to learn that Barbie – lollipop-headed cultural icon and instrument of female oppression – has thrown off the shackles of the...
Issues like sustainability, representation and diversity dominate modern society, but should we expect museums to take a stance? We’re living in an increasingly political and...
Botswana National Museum ventured into a mutual partnership with the San peoples of the Kalahari Desert to establish an eco-museum known as the Kuru Museum...
The Natural History Museum in London has declared an 11-year plan to deal with its part in the changing climate in what it has declared...
Museums have a duty to cater to people with a wide range of needs and this includes visually impaired people. This is not a small...
Some of the UK’s top heritage sites, which make up a significant proportion of the country’s museum sector, are not sufficiently inclusive, according to a...
Museums are helping homeless people in a variety of ways. Homelessness is an important issue in the United States. The US Department of Housing and...
At a time when many public institutions are examining their past and taking steps to decolonise, one of the Netherlands’ most prestigious museums entered into...
The day I took those Friends of the Earth leaflets into school, filled with concern over pollution and environmental destruction, is still etched on my...
It started in 2018 with Greta and now it’s coming to a gallery or museum near you.The #ClimateStrike movement has grown rapidly over the last...
Sustainability has been something of a watchword in the museum and gallery sector for some time now and yet there has not been a great...
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery houses one of the most popular natural history collections in the UK. Recently it became the latest institution to focus...
Since the introduction of single-use plastic in 1960, it has been a major marine pollutant. While its invention improved the shopping industry, it has caused...
How do museums fit into the narrative around the refugee and migrant crisis? Migration is a big political issue, both in North America and Europe....
