Author: Sue Hughes
Female Mannequins requested by Hornsea Museum
Hornsea Museum,11-17 Newbegin, Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU18 1AB is looking for two female museum costume mannequins required to display service uniforms including Land Army, VAD etc. They are looking for full body mannequins if possible. Please contact Hornsea Museum direct if you can help info@hornseamuseum.co.uk.
Request for display cases from the Hong Kong Cultural Community CIC, based in Greater Manchester
The Hong Kong Cultural Community CIC, based in Greater Manchester, are looking for display cases ranging from 30cm x 30cm to 60cm x 60cm (or larger) with plinths of any height for the cases to sit on. These are required to display eight exhibits for an oral history exhibition about Hong Kong for an exhibition […]
Request for Plinths from the Bowes Museum
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 8NP are looking for low level plinths (max height 50cm, min length 100cm) which need to be strong enough to take the weight of mannequins. These would be required by early March 2026. If you can help at all please contact Catherine Dickinson direct, catherine.dickinson@thebowesmuseum.org.uk.
MD North Museum Retail Training Programme, Bowes Museum, 17 June 2025
Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open to attend our retail training day at Bowes Museum on 17 June. We are pleased to have appointed trainers Matthew Henderson and Anya Kirkby to deliver the programme. Following the day there will be an opportunity to apply for one-to-one mentoring. The day will be devised following feedback […]
Helping Hands Cumbrian Volunteering Project
Helping Hands has been an Arts Council England funded county-wide volunteering project across Cumbria led by Cumbria Museums Consortium. Here Faye Morrissey, Manager & Curator of The Armitt, Ambleside reflects on its impact: Although I am disappointed to see it come to an end, I am extremely grateful for all the hard work and support […]
Heritage Volunteering Group
The Heritage Volunteering Group (HVG) are dedicated to deepening the impact of volunteering across the heritage sector by empowering organisations to harness the potential of volunteering to transform organisations, lives, and communities. As a membership organisation, they are a powerful advocate for volunteering, working to enhance volunteer management capacity within organisations, and support members’ professional […]
Heather Lane: Volunteering at the Museum of North Craven Life
Heather Lane is Honorary Curator at the Museum of North Craven Life and Chair of Trustees of the North Craven Building Preservation Trust. Here she explains the impact of volunteering on her and the organisation: ‘In September 2019, I answered an advert for a new Honorary Curator at the Museum of North Craven Life at […]
Success for Northern Museums at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024
We are very pleased to announce that the Roots and Branches programme has been awarded Sustainable Project of the Year at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024. It won the award jointly with The Scottish Crannog Centre for their 1000 Fingerprints 1000 Voices project. Roots and Branches is a collaboration between The Carbon Literacy Project, Museum Development England, and Manchester Museum. It is […]
MEND funding success for North Museums
A total of 11 museums in the North region have been successful in receiving funding totalling over £8.5 million from the latest round of Arts Council England’s Museum Estate and Development Fund. Topping list is the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, which has received just over £3m for repair and refurbishment works. The fourth round of Mend […]
Wellbeing created by local heritage may be worth billions per year
Research from Historic England says the wellbeing created by day-to-day encounters with local heritage is worth £29 billion annually nationwide, according to a new Historic England report. The findings reveal a statistically significant, positive relationship between the density of local heritage assets and self-reported life satisfaction, after adjusting for various socio-economic, neighbourhood and regional effects. […]