Simon Stephens

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Simon Stephens

Head of Publications and Events, Museums Association

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Editorial

Rethinking funding of our civic museums

Helen Marten wins Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

£30,000 prize created to mark Hepworth Wakefield’s fifth anniversary

Q&A with Paul Brookes

Plans for £34m history centre in Plymouth

The MAC announces international art award winner

Slovenian-born artist Jasmina Cibic picks up prize in Belfast

International opening: GPO Witness History, Dublin

Simon Stephens meets Barney Whelan, the project director of an attraction delving into the history of Irish independence

Voices from the Workhouse, Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, Norfolk

History is unlocked and experienced in full at this former workhouse, says Simon Stephens

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Editorial

Is your museum still in touch with its public?

Arts council unveils diversity schemes

Change Makers includes a number of museum projects

Creative Scotland launches arts diversity survey

Gender, age, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation to be assessed

Blaenavon Community Museum volunteers win award

Marsh Volunteer Awards recognise work all over the UK

National Museum of African American History unveiled

President Barack Obama speaks at opening ceremony

Science centres need to engage diverse audiences

Linda Conlon, the chief executive of Newcastle’s International Centre for Life, makes call at science centre conference in US