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ACE launches £6m leadership development fund

Fund will support evidence-based leadership programmes

National Portrait Gallery announces redevelopment plans

Visitor experience is the focus of £35.5m project to complete in 2023

IWM organises burial of six Holocaust victims

Jewish community to hold funeral for unknown victims

Thirty-five museums and galleries awarded DCMS Wolfson grants

Tullie House and Horniman Museum among those to benefit from £4m fund

Tributes paid following death of Mark Suggitt

Colleagues celebrate Suggitt’s contribution to museums

National Football Museum unveils new strategy

Museum will charge for entry for the first time

Treasure finds reach record high

Portable Antiquities Scheme records 1,267 provisional cases in 2017

Visitor numbers boom at nationals in north of England

Footfall at some London institutions also bounces back

SMG’s Ian Blatchford named in New Year honours

Several other museums professionals receive awards

Bolton’s Egypt, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery

Campbell Price steps into the world of pharaohs, sphinxes and pyramids, and emerges impressed

World news digest

Hungary: The heads of the UK’s three main Holocaust organisations have warned that the Hungarian government should not underplay its relationship with Nazi war crimes in a Shoah museum due to open in Budapest next year. “The concerns are real,” said Henry Grunwald, chairman of the UK National Holocaust Centre. Italy: The supreme court has …

Tougher ivory law to come into force this year

Exemptions include sales to and between accredited museums