Simon Stephens

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Simon Stephens

Head of Publications and Events, Museums Association

The Space to showcase digital art

Online arts platform relaunched with a focus on new commissions

Take your partners

Working in partnership is now seen as vital as museums seek to make dwindling public money go further. Simon Stephens reports

Voyage of discovery

Simon Stephens talks to Gill Poulter about how Dundee Heritage Trust is making the most of the city's maritime and textile history

International opening: AG Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

Cypriot businessman Anastasios G Leventis had a longstanding ambition to create a fine art museum in his homeland to display the works and objects he had collected. More than 35 years after his death, his vision has been fulfilled. By Simon Stephens

Funding news

Foreign policy

Union highlights devastating cuts

Report from Prospect shows morale among museum staff is at an all-time low

International Opening: Queens Museum, New York

Simon Stephens hears how this recently redeveloped museum is reaching new audiences following its expansion

Funding news

Purchasing power

International opening: Olympic Museum, Lausanne

Simon Stephens hears about the challenges of creating a museum that represents the global nature of the Olympic movement

Double funding success for Dundee

V&A and Dundee Heritage Trust projects backed by lottery grants

Funding news

Open Prism

Canterbury tales

Partnership working, empowering staff and becoming more resilient are among the ways that Jo Jones hopes to take Canterbury's museums forward. Simon Stephens meets her