Tourism spend to rise
VisitBritain expects a 2% rise in inbound visitor spend this year to £17.2bn, but that is still below the peak of £18.4bn (at today’s prices) in 2006. The tourism promotion body also predicts only a 1% rise in the number of inbound visitors this year despite the royal wedding in April, on which its global marketing campaign will be based.
IWM to mark centenary
The Imperial War Museum has announced plans to lead the national commemoration of the centenary of the start of the first world war in 2014. The museum’s expanded First World War Galleries, which will be twice the size of the current space, will open in summer 2014. The work is part of a plan to create 20% more visitor space at the museum over the next decade.
Museums’ joint initiative
A group of London museums will examine the treatment and views of people with autism and learning difficulties. The project, Our Lives, Past, Present and Future, will run until May with the aim of creating an archive of material at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The project has attracted a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £34,800.
Stolen art recovered
Three paintings stolen from Glasgow museums were recovered by police in December. The works went missing from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Museum of Transport in the 1990s. One of the paintings, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, was spotted in an auction catalogue, which led to the recovery of the other pieces, but it is thought 10 more artworks are still missing.
VisitBritain expects a 2% rise in inbound visitor spend this year to £17.2bn, but that is still below the peak of £18.4bn (at today’s prices) in 2006. The tourism promotion body also predicts only a 1% rise in the number of inbound visitors this year despite the royal wedding in April, on which its global marketing campaign will be based.
IWM to mark centenary
The Imperial War Museum has announced plans to lead the national commemoration of the centenary of the start of the first world war in 2014. The museum’s expanded First World War Galleries, which will be twice the size of the current space, will open in summer 2014. The work is part of a plan to create 20% more visitor space at the museum over the next decade.
Museums’ joint initiative
A group of London museums will examine the treatment and views of people with autism and learning difficulties. The project, Our Lives, Past, Present and Future, will run until May with the aim of creating an archive of material at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The project has attracted a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £34,800.
Stolen art recovered
Three paintings stolen from Glasgow museums were recovered by police in December. The works went missing from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Museum of Transport in the 1990s. One of the paintings, by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, was spotted in an auction catalogue, which led to the recovery of the other pieces, but it is thought 10 more artworks are still missing.
