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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

Culture Perth and Kinross recruits new head of museums and collections

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

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

Creation of a “single-purpose trust” proposed

More strategic leadership on inequality needed, says Scottish report

Equality in Progress questions the term “diversity”

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

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

University of Glasgow forms strategic partnership with Smithsonian

Cross-Atlantic collaboration to help research, teaching and loan agreements

European museum directors warn of “increasing interference” by nationalist governments

Outgoing Kunsthalle Wien director resigns over resurgence of nationalist politics

HLF publishes research into endowment fundraising

Report recommends more support for fundraising programmes