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Morwellham Quay for sale Morwellham Quay museum and visitor centre has been put up for sale by its administrators, with a guide price of £1.1m. The museum lost its funding from Devon County Council earlier this year (Museums Journal November 2009, p8). Estate agent King Sturge is inviting sealed bids and statements of intent by …

Two-thirds of jobs ‘pay too little’

Advertised jobs fail MA recommendations

Industrial action by staff looms over nationals

Union recommends staff reject below-inflation rises at Science Museum and British Museum

News analysis: May 2008 Report urges increase in giving

Campaign for Private Giving advocates tax incentives to encourage philanthropy

Market watch: May 2008

New York may be the centre of the art market, but the Armory Show art fair (named after the much more famous modernist exhibition of 1913) has tended to struggle against the more glamorous fairs and biennials. This year’s event opened barely 10 days after the collapse of Bear Stearns bank. It is hard to …

Fierce contest for HLF cash

Applications for lottery money for capital projects are hugely oversubscribed

Museums could qualify for VAT reimbursement

Deadline of March set for tax claims

NMSI urged to end dispute

MP and union petition seek solution to pay row

Royal Navy consolidates

MoD brings four service museums together to facilitate funding

MPs oppose football museum’s relocation to London

Twenty MPS "deplore" league chairman's idea

Hadrian’s Wall scheme

Purchase of land paves way for £11.5m museum at Roman site in Cumbria

New home for museum?

Design Museum eyes Commonwealth site