Sharon Heal
Sharon Heal
Director, Museums Association
The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Sharon Heal hears how the Museum of Scottish Lead Mining survives in its remote Scottish location
MLA to reduce staff in London by 70 per cent
Staff managing specific programmes and in corporate services to be relocated to Birmingham
Human remains policy is criticised
English Heritage questions Manchester Museum's human remains policy
Science centres: hard facts needed
Report says that science centres need to prove their worth to earn government cash
Debate hots up over possibility of a single funding body for museums
The majority of national museum directors now support the creation of a single funding body for museums, according to Mark Wood, the chairman of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. Wood told Museums Journal that creating a national strategic body with overall funding responsibility should be one of the government’s top priorities. His remarks followed …