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Caroline Parry

Caroline Parry

freelance journalist

Tax relief no ‘game changer’

The spring budget’s proposals to help museums have been welcomed as ‘nice to have’, but do not change the overall picture of an ongoing funding crisis

Scottish museums enjoy capital gains

Ongoing investment in capital projects and blockbuster temporary exhibitions fuelled strong visitor growth at Scottish museums and galleries last year

Designs on life

How the design of our everyday lives is being sketched out by museums through branding, packaging and advertising

Battle lines

Caroline Parry looks at how museums and heritage sites are trying to raise the public’s awareness of the Battle of Waterloo in its bicentenary year

Marking the Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary

Caroline Parry on the challenges of bringing alive the story of a piece of medieval sheepskin parchment with dense Latin text written all over it