Geraldine Kendall Adams

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Geraldine Kendall Adams

Writer and News Editor, Museums Assocation

Museums playing key role in Welsh government’s wellbeing agenda

Report shows how sector is responding to Future Generations Act

Museums are “promising example” of role of culture in health and social care

Report examines place of arts and culture in health, wellbeing and prison sectors

Museums facing tough questions over sponsorship

Several venues have been hit by negative publicity because of the corporate sponsors they have chosen to work with. Geraldine Kendall Adams talks to activists and museums about the increasingly contentious issue and how it might play out in the future

Funding news

Social service

Welsh Assembly debates plans for a national football museum

Assembly also discusses creating national gallery of contemporary art

Carbon emissions drop 35% over five years among NPOs

Report shows environmental policies are having an impact

Museums Association condemns sale of works from Ben Uri Gallery

MA director says auction risks damaging public confidence in museums

Scholars criticise National Museum of Ireland for failing to credit research

Museum cancels public lectures and conducts internal review of Spanish flu exhibition

Museum sector condemns proposal to withdraw UK from Unesco 

Government should not undermine Britain's role in the scheme, says MA director

Was the National Trust wrong to cover up objects featuring men at Cragside?

Trust acknowledges exhibition didn’t “work as we intended”

Tackling colonial legacies

Museums are facing up to their problematic pasts and starting the slow process of decolonising their collections and operations, says Geraldine Kendall Adams

Sector fails to regard Brexit as a cause for celebration

The prime minister’s launch of the ‘festival of Brexit’ has been met with ambivalence from a culture sector angry that the government has ignored its concerns and terrified of the repercussions of leaving the EU without a deal. Geraldine Kendall Adams reports