Simon Stephens

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Simon Stephens

Head of Publications and Events, Museums Association

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?

CAS announces shortlist for £60,000 museum prize

Ashmolean, Birmingham Museums, Hepworth and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in the running

Lord Browne calls for “new age of philanthropy”

Speech follows Tate announcement of three-year Ernst & Young sponsorship

IWM launches contemporary art programme

Initiative features artists’ take on war and conflict

Museum of Flight takes off

HLF awards National Museums Scotland £1.3m for the project

ACE funding open for applications

Five streams open including grants to develop relationship between culture and tourism