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Is the Scottish Maritime Museum right to introduce gender neutral terms for ships?

Museum to drop female pronouns after signs are vandalised

World news digest

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum was destroyed last September because of an overheated air conditioning unit, according to a report released by the Brazilian federal police. According to the report, the museum lacked key fire protection equipment, having spent only $4,000 on safety equipment between 2015 and 2017. France: Four fraudsters that attempted to …

Funding news

Finance available for north of England projects that use culture to benefit local communities

Editorial

It's what museums can be that needs defining

Museums Galleries Scotland consults on next delivery plan

Survey launched on final phase of national museum strategy

Museum of the Year 2019 shortlist revealed

V&A Dundee, Pitt Rivers and St Fagans among the finalists

Extinction Rebellion protestors stage die-in at Natural History Museum

Group chose venue to raise awareness of mass extinction

Britain’s historic houses pledge oaks to Notre Dame

Centuries-old trees offered to cathedral after devastating fire

Hull unveils city-wide project to transform maritime heritage

Council builds on UK City of Culture legacy

Culture secretary rules out restitution from national museums

Jeremy Wright says focus should be on collaboration and long-term loans

Police investigate fraudulent purchase from Cumbria gallery

Credit card scam takes two works by Frank Auerbach

Germany returns record number of Indigenous ancestral remains to Australia

Promoting “healing, justice and reconciliation.”