What's in the current Museums Journal...
August 2006,
Features
Pride of place
Sharon Heal goes to Glasgow and finds out that the £28m redevelopment of Kelvingrove is part of a wider transformation of the city's museums...
'...clever moves borrowed from retail experience, like putting popular bits at the back, could entice visitors to the furthest reaches of the museum...'
Warrior class
Mark Rowe visits China to see how the museum that houses the terracotta warriors has developed since the first soldiers were found more than 30 years ago...
'…"when young students visit our museum they see the cultural relics of their ancestors and see that they were so smart and clever" - Jin Kai…'
Edinburgh's new master
John Leighton's replacement of the flamboyant Timothy Clifford as the head of the National Galleries of Scotland has attracted a lot of attention. Felicity Heywood meets him...
'…in the UK, there is an understanding that culture isn't something seperate from real life or hobbyish. It has a real role to play in the way people feel…'
In the News
Heritage lottery gets guaranteed share of funding until 2019
Plea for more funding for contemporary visual arts from arts council
Also in the August Museums Journal...
Reviews of The Old Operating Theatre, London; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; Textile Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Tudor Kitchens, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey; plus jobs, calendar, classified ads and noticeboard...
To subscribe to Museums Journal click here
The month that was...
Museums Journal July 2006
Pride of place
Sharon Heal goes to Glasgow and finds out that the £28m redevelopment of Kelvingrove is part of a wider transformation of the city's museums...
'...clever moves borrowed from retail experience, like putting popular bits at the back, could entice visitors to the furthest reaches of the museum...'
Warrior class
Mark Rowe visits China to see how the museum that houses the terracotta warriors has developed since the first soldiers were found more than 30 years ago...
'…"when young students visit our museum they see the cultural relics of their ancestors and see that they were so smart and clever" - Jin Kai…'
Edinburgh's new master
John Leighton's replacement of the flamboyant Timothy Clifford as the head of the National Galleries of Scotland has attracted a lot of attention. Felicity Heywood meets him...
'…in the UK, there is an understanding that culture isn't something seperate from real life or hobbyish. It has a real role to play in the way people feel…'
In the News
Heritage lottery gets guaranteed share of funding until 2019
Plea for more funding for contemporary visual arts from arts council
Also in the August Museums Journal...
Reviews of The Old Operating Theatre, London; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich; Textile Gallery, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Tudor Kitchens, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey; plus jobs, calendar, classified ads and noticeboard...
To subscribe to Museums Journal click here
The month that was...
Museums Journal July 2006
