Geraldine Kendall Adams

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Geraldine Kendall Adams

Writer and News Editor, Museums Assocation

Memory work

A growing number of museums are helping dementia sufferers and gathering evidence about the value of such work, writes Geraldine Kendall

Cultural commissioning scheme to poll museums

Survey to assess to what extent cultural bodies are delivering services in education and healthcare

Croydon council faces disciplinary action by MA

Recommendation follows council decision to auction 24 ceramics

Arts can raise education standards, says Welsh report

Review says schools should not see arts as a luxury

MoL axes oral history and community teams

Museum makes 17 redundancies as it cuts costs by £1m

Cultural commissioning survey launched

Initiative aims to build ties between culture sector and public services

19 arrested in connection with museum heists

Organised crime gang linked to theft of oriental artefacts

Summer visitors up by 14% at English nationals

Latest figures show upward trend after a drop last year

Plymouth City Museum gets go-ahead for £21m history centre

Other capital projects underway in East Sussex, Dorset and Gloucester

#AskACurator day is 18 September

Twitter chat between museum curators and the public

NMM close to acquiring Stubbs paintings

Two thirds of £5.5m purchase price raised

Friends of the earth

How should museums tackle environmental issues and engage the public on them? Geraldine Kendall finds out what the campaigners think