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Russian troops ‘targeting cultural workers and looting collections’

Invasion is an ‘extreme assault on culture’, says Ukrainian museum leader

Queer Britain prepares to welcome visitors to King’s Cross site

UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum to open with temporary photography display

Deborah Swallow steps down from Courtauld

Organisation's first female director retires after 18 years

Wellcome Collection takes part in pilot scheme to incorporate Indigenous knowledge

Transatlantic initiative aims to develop ‘reciprocal and consultative model’ for decolonising collections

Gold box recovered 19 years after Waddesdon Manor theft

The item was identified prior to an auction in August 2021

Welsh cultural identity is key to tourism success, committee hears

Heritage leaders share their views on how to promote Wales as global tourist destination

Museum Estate and Development Fund launches second round of grants

The fund will open to expressions of interest on 9 May

Glasgow Life defends trans label in Burrell Collection after ‘politicisation’ row

Caption for statue of Buddhist deity was criticised by campaign group

Florence Nightingale Museum to fully reopen after pandemic shutdown

Fundraising efforts have helped secure museum’s future two years after Covid forced it to close indefinitely

Activists continue calls for British Museum to ditch BP

BP or Not BP and Culture Unstained mount pressure on museum to discontinue the oil giant’s sponsorship

Largest-ever repatriation of cultural artefacts from a Scottish museum given green light

Glasgow to return looted items to India, Nigeria and representatives of massacred Lakota people in South Dakota, USA

St Barbe Museum provides support to Ukrainian refugees

New team and support network set up to help people arriving to the New Forest