Simon Stephens

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Simon Stephens

Head of Publications and Events, Museums Association

Funding news: Capital gains

Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) has two funding deadlines coming up this month. The first is for its Small Project Fund, which offers grants of between £500 and £5,000 to help Accredited museums develop projects related to MGS’s national strategy. The deadline for applications is 11 October and the awards will be announced on 6 December. …

Independent Ashmolean Museum Broadway opens in Cotswolds

Oxford museum offers expertise and objects

ACE: partnerships are vital for museum learning

Effective partnerships key to learning schemes

Tate unveils digital plans

Bloomberg Connects aims to engage new audiences in new ways

Ashmolean backs independent museum

Museum created in renovated Tudor house in Worcestershire village of Broadway

ACE: partnerships are key for museum learning

Report published into provision for children and young people

Fighting talk

Simon Stephens reports on efforts to make battlefield sites engaging and evocative places to visit

Making waves

Mostyn's director Alfredo Cramerotti is working hard to ensure that his gallery has a presence on the international art scene, even though it’s located in a small seaside town in north Wales. By Simon Stephens

The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections

Simon Stephens hears about the redevelopment of this iconic Christian site on the tiny island of Iona

Funding news

Travel agencies

HLF announce world war one grants

£6m small grants programme complements range of other WWI funding streams

Public affairs

Getting audiences directly involved in artworks is a growing trend, but is it a good thing?