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Northern Ireland museums hit by cuts


NMNI and NIMC in talks with government over impact of cuts on museums

01.01.2007

We are winning the argument for Renaissance funding, says Clare


MLA chief responds to MA survey findings

06.09.2010

Find a supplier at the MA exhibition


Meet over 80 leading suppliers at the Museums Association Conference and Exhibition

06.09.2010


Collections face mothballing because of cuts, MA survey finds


Research shows that cuts to Renaissance will banish regional museum collections back to the basement

31.08.2010

Local authority museums hit by spending squeeze


Arts sector is expected to be required to bear brunt of government's 25 per cent funding cuts

01.09.2010


Griffiths goes live on Guardian Careers Q&A


Catch up with the MA's head of workforce development and events in online discussion from 1pm today


01.09.2010

Deadline approaching for Smarter Loans feedback


Have your say on the MA's Smarter Loans consultation document before 17 September

31.08.2010


English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund may merge


DCMS reviews heritage organisations

25.08.2010

MA warns of danger of introducing admission charges at free museums


Introducing charges could see visitor numbers fall

24.08.2010


MA to respond to Northern Ireland policy

Select Committee to look into arts funding


Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland could be left stranded by end of MLA

MA presses Ed Vaizey to recognise importance of museum sector


Comment

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The MLA is being abolished ‘to focus efforts on frontline essential services and to ensure greater value for money’. Amen to that. It matters little who has responsibility for museums; only what they do with it.right quote

Jonathan Griffin, director, National Maritime Museum, Cornwall
01.09.2010

–Vox pop

Conference and Exhibition 2010

Conference blog
Behind the scenes at Manchester 2010

Museums Journal

Opening up the debate
Museums are being urged to adopt a more open attitude to repatriation claims. By Maurice Davies
Share value
Museums are making their resources go further by sharing skills and knowledge, writes Rebecca Atkinson

Museum Practice

How to conduct a collections review
A guide to taking a strategic approach to collections reviews, from the preparation stage to conducting a review and making the most of the results
Picture album: Disposal?
A selection of images from UCL's Disposal? exhibition, which raised questions about what objects museums should - and shouldn't - collect

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Sharon Heal

Editor, Museums Journal

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