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Maria Balshaw to step down as head of Tate next spring

Director to depart after nine years of leadership

Parliamentary group urges museums to take action on human remains

MP says sector must find an ‘ethical and accountable way forward’ in House of Commons briefing

Louvre closed to visitors after workers vote to strike

Industrial action partly in protest against ticket price rise for non-European visitors

Major research project to explore inequalities in museum attendance

University of Leicester announces four-year initiative to address sector’s engagement and benefit gap

More than 600 items stolen from Bristol colonial collection

Police release CCTV of suspects after theft of former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum artefacts

Ben Uri gallery to launch research institute focused on immigrant art

Institute aims to share and teach contributions of migrants and refugees

Food Museum among 11 organisations named as living heritage support hubs

Submissions open for UK-wide inventory of intangible cultural heritage

British Museum-led team finds earliest proof of human fire-making

Artefacts from Barnham Paleolithic site in Suffolk to be accessioned into museum’s collection

Artist Nnena Kalu celebrates Turner Prize win

Victory hailed as important for learning disabled artists

Royal Engineers Museum seeks duplicates of valuable D-Day files lost in van theft

Almost 2,000 technical documents relating to Mulberry Harbours destroyed in criminal incident

Deaf Heritage Centre to transition to new leadership

The British Deaf Association to ‘protect and develop’ museum and its collections

Dumfries and Galloway Council proposes closing four museums

Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure