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Welsh Assembly debates plans for a national football museum

Assembly also discusses creating national gallery of contemporary art

Macron report advocates permanent return of colonial-era African objects

French president plans international conference to discuss repatriation

Lakeland Arts appoints chief executive

V&A’s Rhian Harris to replace Gordon Watson

Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum bars human remains and live animals

New collections development policy also excludes artworks of spoliation

Carbon emissions drop 35% over five years among NPOs

Report shows environmental policies are having an impact

Museums Association condemns sale of works from Ben Uri Gallery

MA director says auction risks damaging public confidence in museums

Scholars criticise National Museum of Ireland for failing to credit research

Museum cancels public lectures and conducts internal review of Spanish flu exhibition

Museum sector condemns proposal to withdraw UK from Unesco 

Government should not undermine Britain's role in the scheme, says MA director

Was the National Trust wrong to cover up objects featuring men at Cragside?

Trust acknowledges exhibition didn’t “work as we intended”

Historic England publishes Heritage at Risk Register

Museums among those at risk of neglect, decay or inappropriate change

Thackray Medical Museum appoints chief executive officer

Nat Edwards replaces Joanne Bartholomew

Society for Museum Archaeology provides rationalisation guidance

New publication highlights challenges of storing archaeological collections