Rebecca Atkinson

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Rebecca Atkinson

Events Programmer and Content Editor, Museums Association

Guide | Using play in interpretation

Play is often overlooked when planning interpretation, but it makes exhibitions more appealing

Museums warned of metal theft threat

Rise in criminal activity expected as metal prices rise

Marsh volunteer award opens for nominations

Regional winners receive a £500 prize with a further £2,000 for the overall winner

Case study | The value of volunteers

Creating engaging projects that support mental health and add value to communities

Julie’s Bicycle launches climate justice hub

Online library focuses on how marginalised groups are disproportionately impacted by climate crisis

Trendswatch | Photogrammetry and conservation

What role do 3D digital models play when it comes to conservation and preservation?

Arts Council England awards £22.7m to 66 organisations

Successful recipients of the Capital Investment Programme include a new museum on the Isles of Scilly and Firstsite

MGS launches survey to help define next national strategy

Body also opens applications for two funding streams

Florence Nightingale Museum to fully reopen after pandemic shutdown

Fundraising efforts have helped secure museum’s future two years after Covid forced it to close indefinitely

Sensory Journeys: creating digital storytelling sessions for children

South Shields Museum shares the aims and outcomes of this immersive digital project

Largest-ever repatriation of cultural artefacts from a Scottish museum given green light

Glasgow to return looted items to India, Nigeria and representatives of massacred Lakota people in South Dakota, USA

Learning the ropes: redesigning the new Ropery Gallery at the Historic Dockyard Chatham

Telling the history of ropework can pose a knotty challenge