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Galleries join forces to ‘remember nature’

Initiative involved 17 arts organisations across England

Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register

Charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025

V&A East Museum announces opening date and first exhibitions

Long-awaited east London venue will welcome the public through its doors in April 2026

Funding gives museum leaders in Scotland more time for future planning

Museums Galleries Scotland awards £600,000 via new Leadership Capacity Fund

Tributes paid following death of Scotland’s ‘powerhouse’ curator Elspeth King

Social historian remembered for her work to expand working-class collections at People’s Palace in Glasgow

Petition launched to save Walsall Leather Museum

Council plans to relocate museum but campaigners fear it could close for good

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration to open next May

Venture to take up residence in former waterworks in Clerkenwell, London

Poole Museum to reopen after seven-year transformation

Redevelopment includes six new galleries and open display of Poole Iron Age Logboat

Powell-Cotton Museum seeks community input in redisplay of Zulu collections

A museum-wide reinterpretation project is currently underway at the Kent institution

Hull’s North End Shipyard Visitor Centre gets Passivhaus accreditation

Building is part of Hull Maritime, a city-wide regeneration project due to finish in 2026

National Museum Cardiff asks public to decide name of new woolly mammoth

Three possible names selected for 3D-printed skeleton out of 1,400-plus suggestions

Art Fund research proves that viewing art is good for the human body

‘Genuinely surprising’ study shows that original art benefits three different body systems all at once