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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

Shuar people seek repatriation of ‘shrunken heads’ in UK collections

Delegation expresses wish for return of ceremonial tsantsas along with self-representation in displays

Welsh Museums Festival takes joy as its theme

More than 50 museums and galleries across Wales are taking part in the week-long celebration

Museums are not ‘secret vaults’, say world’s museum leaders

Directors at major institutions defend principle of open access but say Louvre heist has ‘shaken us to the core’

Council introduces entry charge at Museum of Oxford despite objections

Local stakeholders warn that decision to implement £4 charge comes with ‘more risk than reward’