Rebecca Atkinson

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Rebecca Atkinson

Events Programmer and Content Editor, Museums Association

Case study | Designing sustainable exhibitions in-house

National Museums NI is rethinking the environmental footprint of exhibitions

Case study | Reducing waste from temporary exhibitions

Wardlaw Museum shares its experiences using recyclable cardboard

Case Study | A greener approach to moving art

Gander & White shares how it is working to reduce the cultural sector's emissions

New research to shape ‘music-led’ visitor experience in Birmingham

Birmingham Museum partners on project celebrating city’s musical heritage

Heritage emergency declared in Stoke-on-Trent

Capital of ceramics calls for £300m investment to save its historic assets

Q&A | ‘Without research, we cannot have a future where people and planet thrive’

Renowned botanist Sandra Knapp on her appointment as the NHM’s first director of research

DCMS announces £1.5bn to tackle underfunding across culture sector

Five-year investment also aims to ‘unite communities’

Joe Hill to take up helm at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Meanwhile, Sally Tallant is named as new director of London’s Hayward Gallery

Campaigners fight proposed entrance fees at Museum of Oxford

Petition and day of action planned ahead of changes at local authority museum

Melanie Keen steps down as director of Wellcome Collection

Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring

Cultural objects worth £59m gifted to museums and galleries

A total of 32 cases went through Acceptance in Lieu and the Cultural Gifts Scheme last year

Art Fund launches Museum Directors Survey 2026

Charity urges leaders to help shape its new five-year strategy