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Jeremy Wright named culture secretary in cabinet reshuffle

DCMS gets its seventh culture secretary since 2010

Collections Trust Award open for applications

Prize for museum that can best demonstrate its use of the Spectrum standard

Civic museums must reform collection policies, report says

Study urges changes in wake of funding cuts

Tate St Ives wins Museum of the Year

Cornwall gallery heads five-strong shortlist

Culture in Scotland to be a “central consideration across all policy areas”

But draft strategy acknowledges funding pressures

Future of Brighton and Hove’s Royal Pavilion and Museums still unclear

Creation of a “single-purpose trust” proposed

Culture Perth and Kinross recruits new head of museums and collections

Gillian Findlay, a Museums Association board member, joins from Museums and Galleries Edinburgh

British Museum unfairly dismissed pregnant employee, tribunal finds

Archaeologist wins financial settlement in discrimination case

Uncertain future for Museums at Night festival

Culture24 consults with stakeholders over UK-wide event

More strategic leadership on inequality needed, says Scottish report

Equality in Progress questions the term “diversity”

Hunterian to consider release of “Irish giant” skeleton

Charles Byrne’s body was acquired by surgeon John Hunter in 1783

19th-century plaster casts likely destroyed in Glasgow School of Art fire

But most of the institution's archival materials and collections were offsite