Jonathan Knott

Jonathan Knott

freelance journalist and copywriter

Music is helping museums stay in tune with their audiences

Museums are finding imaginative ways to engage with people’s emotional connections to music, challenging them to explore the artform’s varied dimensions

Scotland’s museums are at a tipping point

After more than a decade of funding cuts, some services are struggling to finance education and outreach programmes. Jonathan Knott finds that the existing model may not be sustainable

Keys handed over for new £27m Perth Museum

Venue will be new home for the Stone of Destiny

Glasgow Banksy exhibition draws record crowds

Show was gallery’s first to open overnight

Return of Nisga’a Nation pole from National Museums Scotland begins

Item will be on public display in Nisga’a Museum

National Gallery announces UK partners for bicentenary commission

Project with Jeremy Deller is gallery's first partnership with a performing arts institution

Scotland offers £1m in climate and capital funds

A new government initiative aims to build understanding of the climate emergency

Consultation on Dundee Eden Project underway

A planning application is expected this autumn

In brief | Latest news and projects from across the sector

£3.6m of 'national treasures' saved and Spectrum collections management standard to be translated into Welsh

Majority say museums should take a stance on the climate crisis

Younger generations were much more likely to believe that cultural organisations should take a position

Oxford-Benin partnership to create West African archaeology centre

Institute will support research and skills development

Wales opens capital funding round

Money can support building or engineering work as well as digital infrastructure