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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 […]
Two Northern Museums To Pilot Sensational Museum Project
The Sensational Museum Project aims to rethink the role of senses in all aspects of museum work, from accession, cataloguing and collections, through to curating, exhibitions and the visitor experience. The £1m initiative is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and supported by a range of industry partners, including the Museums Association. Ten […]
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 […]
Arts Council England Capital Investment Fund – Northern Museums Receive Funding
Three northern museums have benefited from the second round of Arts Council England’s Capital Investment Fund. Durham County Council Museums & Collections – the former Durham Light Infantry Museum & Art Gallery will receive £500,000 to reopen as a significant cultural centre in the Durham Innovation District, showcasing high quality exhibitions by local, national and […]
GEM – Case Studies
GEM has shared their spring Case Studies, the theme of which is ‘Reimaging Engagement’. A number of northern museums have been included in the case studies selected; The Judges Lodgings, National Museums Liverpool, The Auckland Project and Vindolanda. Read the case studies on the GEM website
Sheffield Stories – Caribbean Stories
A new exhibition has been created in partnership with co-curators from Sheffield’s African Caribbean community at Weston Park Museum. Bringing together archive material and personal mementoes, photographs, film and much more, Caribbean Footsteps celebrates the many ways that people of African Caribbean heritage have contributed to Sheffield life. This new exhibition explores the stories of […]
The Saltaire Collection – Digitalisation Programme
The Saltaire Collection has created a series of online resources using their MODES collections database records. All 6,000 of its catalogued items including documents, photographs, maps, plans, newspaper cuttings, artworks, books and objects are accessible online and the team have already digitised 12% of the collection. Over the summer the team will also be adding […]
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 – Finalists from the Region
Two museums from the northern region have been shortlisted for the 2024 Art Fund Museum of the Year Award. Craven Museum in Skipton, North Yorkshire and the Manchester Museum have been recognised for their focus on community engagement and sustainability. The 3 other museums to be shortlisted are: Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee) National Portrait Gallery […]
Survey Results – Programming for Non-School and Home Educated Children
The results of a previously circulated survey looking at programming for non-school & Home Educated children are now live. This is part of a wider project around provision for children not at school funded by Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant. Find the results here
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 […]