Rebecca Atkinson

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Rebecca Atkinson

Events Programmer and Content Editor, Museums Association

Mosi director to return to Science Museum as deputy director

Jean Franczyk to leave Manchester in September

Bristol backtracks on plans to close four museums

Council will continue to seek external organisations to run venues

Will first world war exhibitions be too jingoistic?

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Bristol council looks to close four museums

Other local authority museums hit by cuts and closures

Web and mobile: January 2014

Website P&O Heritagetimeline A new interactive timeline on the P&O Heritage website uses old film footage and photographs to tell the story of the company’s 175-year history, writes Rebecca AtkinsonThe design of this P&O timeline is straightforward. Users can browse by decade, with each one given a broad theme. A quote from an annual report …

IWM London forced to close until July 2014

Unexpected infrastructure work to push up redevelopment costs

ACE to pass on cuts to museums

DCMS cuts ACE's grant-in-aid

DCMS reports rise in museum visits

More than half of adults visited museums last year

National Media Museum outlines five-year vision

Plan includes bringing commercial cinema partner on board

Surgeons’ Hall Museum and Chatham Dockyard receive HLF grants

Compton Verney gets support for £2.5m to restore Capability Brown park

Was Croydon right to sell the Riesco Collection?

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Is the Cultural Gifts Scheme working?

Rebecca Atkinson reports on the progress of a government scheme to enable UK taxpayers to donate works of art and other heritage objects to the nation