News LGBTQ+ Queer Britain prepares to welcome visitors to King’s Cross site UK’s first national LGBTQ+ museum to open with temporary photography display
News Leadership Deborah Swallow steps down from Courtauld Organisation's first female director retires after 18 years
News Decolonising Museums Wellcome Collection takes part in pilot scheme to incorporate Indigenous knowledge Transatlantic initiative aims to develop ‘reciprocal and consultative model’ for decolonising collections
News Crime Gold box recovered 19 years after Waddesdon Manor theft The item was identified prior to an auction in August 2021
News Tourism Welsh cultural identity is key to tourism success, committee hears Heritage leaders share their views on how to promote Wales as global tourist destination
News Funding Museum Estate and Development Fund launches second round of grants The fund will open to expressions of interest on 9 May
News Labels Glasgow Life defends trans label in Burrell Collection after ‘politicisation’ row Caption for statue of Buddhist deity was criticised by campaign group
News Independent Museums Florence Nightingale Museum to fully reopen after pandemic shutdown Fundraising efforts have helped secure museum’s future two years after Covid forced it to close indefinitely
News Climate Crisis Activists continue calls for British Museum to ditch BP BP or Not BP and Culture Unstained mount pressure on museum to discontinue the oil giant’s sponsorship
News Repatriation Largest-ever repatriation of cultural artefacts from a Scottish museum given green light Glasgow to return looted items to India, Nigeria and representatives of massacred Lakota people in South Dakota, USA
News Ukraine St Barbe Museum provides support to Ukrainian refugees New team and support network set up to help people arriving to the New Forest
News Exhibitions Jewish Museum names new director as part of 90th anniversary celebrations Frances Jeens to lead London museum