Category: News
Birmingham Museums Trust will not face £750k cuts as budget released
Following one of the largest pieces of consultation Birmingham City Council has completed, the 2017/18 proposed budget will be taken to Cabinet on 14 February before going to Full Council on 28 February for final ratification. The consultation saw over 3,000 people… Read more
DCMS-sponsored English museums experience 3.1m fall in visitor numbers
DCMS-sponsored English museums experience 3.1m fall in visitor numbers A report by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) shows visits to all 15 sponsored English museums decreased by 6.2 per cent, from 50.7m 2014/15 to… Read more
New art gallery opens as part of Hull UK City of Culture 2017
Humber Street Gallery opens in Hull on today in the city’s regenerated Fruit Market cultural quarter part of the Hull UK City of Culture 2017 programme The three storey gallery in a former fruit and vegetable warehouse will present a… Read more
ICOM appoints Director of Dommuseum as its new Director General
Peter Keller has been appointed Director General of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) today Keller, who is currently serving his second mandate as ICOM Treasurer, has been Director of the Salzburg Cathedral Museum (Dommuseum), Austria, since 2002. In 2014,… Read more
Polish museum wins reprieve from court over government takeover
A ruling from the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw on Monday said the Museum of the Second World War could continue to make preparations for its opening set to take place at the beginning of March. The… Read more
London’s Charterhouse opens to public for first time in 650 year history
The Charterhouse is an assembly of historic buildings dating from the 14th century and over the years it has been a religious site, a grand Tudor mansion, a school and, as it has remained for over 400… Read more