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Science Museum Group appoints 'AI champion' | Scheme to explore hidden disability histories | Governance guidance published

Heritage pottery sites in Stoke-on-Trent fire up new visitor experience

Gladstone Pottery Museum – home of the Great Pottery Throw Down – and Duchess China launch pilot collaboration

Rising costs force local museum to cut opening hours and staffing

Museum of Cambridge says it will also reduce staff numbers to ensure its long-term future

Powell-Cotton Museum celebrates 100-year anniversary

Kent institution is planning a range of exhibitions, events and other activities to mark its opening in 1926

Blue Shield warns of potential ‘war crimes’ against Iran’s cultural sites

International museum and heritage bodies urge protection of cultural heritage across Gulf region

Wiener Holocaust Library appoints new co-directors

Christine Schmidt and Barbara Warnock to lead archive institution

Government ‘will not neglect local museums’, pledges arts minister

Cross-party praise for smaller museums in Westminster Hall debate

Cultural industries must be protected from ‘danger’ of generative AI, says report

Government urged to create a ‘fair and inclusive UK licensing market’

Ashmolean returns 16th-century bronze taken from Hindu temple

Icon repatriated to India after scholar raised provenance concerns

LGA calls for tighter controls on tourist tax spending

Councils should be able to retain some funding for services that support visitor population, association says

London’s Barbican secures permission for £231m renewal

Accessibility and sustainability will be central to project

Council faces questions over decision to move Walsall Leather Museum

Campaigners raise concerns as tempers flare at scrutiny meeting