Sharon Heal
Sharon Heal
Director, Museums Association
Let’s get physical
Can museums and science centres make physics appealing to young people? Sharon Heal reports
MLA’s spending options divide regional museums
The decision on how to spend the new Renaissance cash has been delayed for at least another month. The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council met in January to discuss the breakdown of its allocation from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. A smaller than expected rise in Renaissance funding meant that the MLA board …
Campaign to save the Lighthouse Centre in Penzance scuppered
Campaigners have lost their battle to keep the Lighthouse Centre in Penzance open. Trinity House, the lighthouse service for England and Wales, announced the closure last month. A statement from Trinity House said that the move came after three years of consultation and that the collection needed to be displayed at a large centre with …
National Museums and Galleries of Wales launches vision for the future
The National Museums and Galleries of Wales has launched a public consultation into the future of the national museum service. The first part of the consultation, which will mainly be conducted through a website, will run for seven weeks up until 20 April. Mike Houlihan, the director general of NMGW, told Museums Journal that the …
Top directors pick favourite artefacts for Museums and Galleries Month 2005
An engine, a Turner battle scene, an aeroplane and a wooden stage are just a few of the ‘objects of desire’ chosen by directors of national museums to celebrate the launch of Museums and Galleries Month 2005. The theme of the month is The Art of Collecting and more than 1,200 museums and galleries around …
Ken Livingstone to speak at the MA conference
Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, will be a keynote speaker at the Museums Association (MA) conference in October. Describing London as a microcosm of a global society, Livingstone (top right) said museums play an instrumental role in representing the different cultural backgrounds of Londoners to each other. Livingstone will tell conference about the work …
MA report says museums must review, rebuild and rationalise collections
Museums have too many ‘caretakers’ and not enough ‘collection activists’, according to a new report to be published by the Museums Association (MA) this month. Collections for the Future will be launched on 14 June and is the result of an 18-month inquiry into the state of collections in the UK. Jane Glaister, the director …