3+ hour, 53+ min ago  (569+ words) When South Shields Museum and Art Gallery secured a place on the National Gallery Masterpiece Tour, it marked a significant moment. Following an earlier partnership bringing Constable's The Cornfield to a pop-up site in Jarrow in 2023, the arrival of Monet's…...

21+ hour, 49+ min ago  (9+ words) Collections Trust takes on Find an Object service'Museums Association...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (402+ words) A team of designers has been appointed to design a new wing of the National Gallery that will house its modern art collection. The extension is part of the "750m Project Domani transformation that will see the London gallery extend its…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (423+ words) In 2025 the Beecroft Bequest supported Lincoln Museum's acquisition of a remarkable group of gold and garnet jewellery. The work of Anglo-Saxon goldsmiths in 7th century England, the five pieces are spectacular, visually striking and highly wearable even today. The unique group…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (559+ words) What makes our institutions unique are the objects they'contain'and hold. How we work with those varies, and this practical textbook, published by UCL (open access), takes the reader on a journey to think about the objects in'different ways, and to…...

2+ day, 26+ min ago  (183+ words) The UK's first permanent institution dedicated to preserving youth culture will open its doors to visitors on 15 May, nearly 20 years since it was first founded. The museum documents how subcultures emerge at the margins before shaping the mainstream, and how…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (544+ words) In 2023, the National Portrait Gallery in London and the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles jointly acquired Joshua Reynolds" Portrait of Mai (c. 1776). Mai lived from approximately 1753 to circa 1780 and was a young man from Ra'iatea, one of the Leeward…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (782+ words) Sector bodies have welcomed the news that charitable, cultural and heritage organisations will be excluded from forthcoming legislation that aims to protect consumers from unwanted subscriptions " but would have opened up a loophole enabling visitors to abuse museum membership schemes....

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (598+ words) Walter Bobbett, who was employed for more than 60 years by Clarks shoes, wrote this of the shoemaking processes he was involved in: Three galleries tell the story of shoemaking in Street, the first setting the scene of how the once…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (468+ words) The sector has been sharing memories of Neil Cossons, the influential former Science Museum director who died on 29 March. Cossons, who was also a historian and industrial heritage expert, was the director of the Science Museum from 1986 until 2000. During his…...