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…
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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….
AIM Pilgrim Trust Conservation Grants 2024 Open for Applications
Applications for collections care audits, collections care grants, and remedial conservation grants are now open and the closing date is Friday 29 March. The fund is administered by the Association of Independent Musems (AIM) with monies from the Pilgrim Trust. Those eligible for funding are: The grants enable museums to bring in conservation expertise to…
The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund is Now Open for Spring 2024 Applications
The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, run by the Museums Association (MA), supports museums and their community partners to develop together, using collections. Following a period of review, the Collections Fund has updated its purpose, guidance and application criteria for 2024 and is now inviting applications. The Museum Association award the fund on behalf of Esmée…
New Report on Museum Emergency Networks & Support by Museum Development North West
At the end of 2023 Museum Development North West published a research report into museum emergency networks and support across North West England. This identified that the risks to museums are increasing, especially due to the growing impact of climate change through water, pests, and mould. The report also highlighted that the levels of emergency…
Museum Leaders Meet for First ‘UK Museum COP’ with Joint Climate Change Commitments
In November 2023 representatives from 68 UK museums, sector bodies, and funders met for the first UK Museum COP meeting, organised by the The National Museum Directors’ Council and hosted at Tate Modern. The meeting took place to solidify the collective action museums can take to reduce carbon emissions within the sector and address the…
Derby Museums Launches Flood Damage Appeal
Derby Museums has launched an appeal to help retore and repair the Museum of Making (the Old Silk Mill), which was flooded on 21 October. On that day the River Derwent reached 3.58m above its usual level. This is the highest level since records began and well above the flood defence design limits for the…
SPMA Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture 2023
This year’s Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (SPMA) Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is being held at the Museum of Making in Derby on a textile theme. The topic is very relevant to industrial heritage textile sites and those in historic textile producing regions. The lecture title is ‘The Unexpected Side of English Cloth Seals: 16th– to…
Industrial Heritage Support 