Geraldine Kendall Adams

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Geraldine Kendall Adams

Writer and News Editor, Museums Assocation

Funding news | The talk of the towns

Museums and other local stakeholders in towns across England are being invited to have their say on how money from the government’s £3.6bn Towns Fund should be spent. One hundred towns and communities have been earmarked to each receive a Town Deal worth up to £25m in funding, including 45 in the Northern Powerhouse and …

Coronavirus outbreak shuts museums and galleries across northern Italy

Cultural events also disrupted as virus arrives in Europe

Cause-led craft and co-production: key trends at Collect 2020

Q&A with fair director Isobel Dennis ahead of the opening of the Crafts Council event this week

Museums step up efforts to return Nazi-era spoliated art

Appointment by Louvre signals more proactive approach

Museum community rallies round flood-hit Pontypridd Museum

Storm Dennis causes ‘devastating’ damage to museum’s storeroom

Jenny Waldman announced as Art Fund director

Waldman to replace outgoing head Stephen Deuchar 

Valuation Office Agency to appeal landmark business rates ruling on museums

Judgment could result in significant savings for many institutions but the result is not yet secure 

Deputy leader of Glasgow City Council calms fears of Goma sell-off

Budget paper mooted option of moving collection and selling building

DCMS gets ninth culture secretary in a decade

Oliver Dowden appointed after cabinet reshuffle

Jewish Museum London leaves arts council portfolio as director steps down

Museum will receive tailored funding arrangement to review business model 

Do museums need to rethink due diligence when it comes to repatriation?

Recent cases have highlighted the need for clearer thinking on the sensitive process of returning objects

Science Museum Group launches climate action programme

Initiative aims to engage people in climate science and showcase technological solutions