National Mills Weeekend, run by the wind and water mills section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), was establised 20 years ago, and for the last five years SPAB has produced a film to introduce the event. 2025’s film is now live. This year’s event runs over the weekend of the…
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On Display! Improved Display and Security Museum Grants Now Open
Several Museum Development England regions are offering grants of up to £5000 to help museums improve security and display conditions of their collections and loans through the On Display! initiative. The On Display! grants are a national programme of public funding from the UK Government through Arts Council England, distributed by Museum Development providers across…
Historic England Looking for Heritage Sites to Take Part in their ‘Pilot Carbon Bookkeeping & Carbon Reduction Training’
This spring, Historic England will launch a new training programme to follow on from the successful Heritage Carbon Literacy courses. Guided by discussions and feedback from the sector, this new training will support heritage organisations to measure their carbon footprint and write a carbon reduction action plan. The aim is to help demystify what organisations…
Choosing the Right Social Media Platform for Your Industrial Museum in 2025
Choosing the right social media platform or platforms for your industrial museum or site is a big step since it affects the visibility, engagement, and impact of your site. Most industrial sites have a presence on Facebook, but deciding to join, stay, or leave a platform requires careful consideration, since some platforms are a better…
Conservation Matters in the North 24: Transferrable Skills in Conservation Conference
The Northwest Conservators Group are holding their annual conference in December on the theme of ‘Transferable Skills in Conservation’. The conference is open to all with an interest in conservation including curators, conservators, historians, students, volunteers, interns, and related disciplines such as those runnign industrial hertiage sites. A series of short talks will explore questions…
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – New eLearning Resources for the Heritage Sector
Museum Development South West have launched a free eLearning course for museums (and relevant to industrial heritage sites) across England who want to develop their understanding of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). The EDI Roadmap has been developed with expert consultants, with lived experience and EDI expertise, alongside a group of museum user testers. Through…
Online Appeal for Funding to Save Worsbrough Mill’s History and Heritage
Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust, a fundraising charity which helps fund and promote Barnsley Museums’ five free heritage attractions, has launched a fundraising campaign to help securee the future of Wosbrough Mill. Funds are required for repairs and to future-proof the history and unique industrial heritage of the mill. This site is one of the…
Second Heritage Skills Seminar at London Transport Museum 31 October
The second London Transport Museum seminar series on heritage skills will take place at the London Transport Museum Depot at Acton on 31 October. The seminar is part of the Museum’s Sustaining Heritage Skills project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Heritage Innovation Fund. The seminar builds on the previous seminar held in June…
Museum Data Services Launches
Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Museum Data Service (MDS) officially launched this September 2024. It brings together over 100 million object records from 1,750 accredited museums and other collections across the UK, unlocking an invaluable resource for researchers, educators, curators, and content developers. The MDS is…
New Report on Museum Closures and Deprivation in 2024
The latest research from the Mapping Musuems project, based at UCL, uses the Index of Multiple Deprivation to ask whether museums in England are more likely to close in areas of higher deprivation? This question is especially relant to industrial hertiage sites open to the public which are often sited in area sof fomer industry….
Industrial Heritage Support 