Geraldine Kendall Adams

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Geraldine Kendall Adams

Writer and News Editor, Museums Assocation

What’s in store?

The Museums Association's Effective Collections programme is coming to an end after five years. But are objects any better used as a result, asks Geraldine Kendall

Google boosts online gallery

Google Art Project signs up 10 extra galleries

Scottish museums back new national strategy

But there are concerns about future direction of development body

Hunt decides not to extend Forgan’s role at ACE

ACE staff shocked at need to find new chair

Concerns raised over MGS restructure

Organisation responds to issues highlighted by sector ahead of AGM

Royal subjects

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee has inspired a flood of exhibitions but do any of them reflect the views of those who don't support royalty? Geraldine Kendall investigates

Less giving, more taking

Another fall in corporate giving means private investment is failing to make up for the decline in public funding 

New museums smash targets

Museums such as the National Museum of Scotland have benefited from investment

Arts Council Collection launches regional partnership scheme

Four museums to display artworks from national loan collection

Welcome all

With high-profile events such as the Olympics, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Dickens bicentenary, this is going to be a big year for attracting overseas visitors to the UK, writes Geraldine Kendall

The Museum of…Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections

Geraldine Kendall hears about a museum that tells the story of naval conflict in Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands

Drop in craft commissions as cuts hit

Survey finds that a third of UK craftmakers have suffered a drop in sales