Rebecca Atkinson

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Rebecca Atkinson

Events Programmer and Content Editor, Museums Association

New museums exceeding targets

Visitor numbers in first four weeks reach up to 57% of annual goals

RNIB guide to accessibility

Blind visitors to benefit from improved facilities

Spate of rhino horn thefts from museums continues

Demand for rhino horn as alternative medicine leads to break-ins

Visitor numbers fall by 38% at Royal Armouries Leeds

Redundancies and warm weather blamed for fall in visitors

ACE confirms application period for Renaissance funding

Museums to be given application guidance

Twenty thefts of rhino horn in six months

Ipswich Museum latest victim in a spate of thefts

Happy Museum commissions six projects

Story Museum and Cinema Museum among recipients of £60,000 fund

BMAG and Thinktank to merge

Move will save £1.3m by 2014

£100m funding scheme unveiled

Scheme includes £55m to support endowment fundraising

Digging it

The growing public interest in archaeology is an excellent opportunity for museums to engage new audiences, writes Rebecca Atkinson

Art Fund seeks creative applications for new grant

Renew offers £600,000 to build collections

UK-wide catalogue of oil paintings goes online

Website will give public online access to more than 200,000 paintings