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Nine Scottish museums to share nearly £422,000 in development funding

Museums Galleries Scotland awards grants to increase financial resilience and strengthen local connections

Curatorial fellowships launched for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people

Curating Visibility programme offers career development opportunities to tackle underrepresentation in sector

Museums under threat as councils prepare for new wave of austerity

Venues in Hampshire face closure while Suffolk cuts all funding for culture

Museum openings and expansions coming up in 2024

Our round-up of the new institutions and redevelopments to watch out for in the UK this year

Museum, arts and heritage workers named in New Year Honours

Incoming English Heritage chief Nick Merriman and MA board member Steve Miller among those to receive awards

Welsh Government urged to reconsider sweeping cuts to museums and heritage

Draft budget for 2024-25 is proposing cuts of 11.2% for culture and the arts

Consultation launched into proposed ‘living heritage’ register

Views sought as UK Government looks to ratify Unesco convention on intangible cultural heritage

Upward trend in museum visitor figures across UK

Latest data suggests museums are gradually regaining pre-pandemic levels of footfall

Deputy chair quit before British Museum announced £50m BP deal

Board minutes reveal ‘strong personal disagreement’ among trustees and concern over security risks

Museums on alert following British Library cyber attack

Sector urged to tighten security after criminal hack left library severely incapacitated

Four artists commissioned to create new work in response to Holocaust testimony

Holocaust Centre North hopes scheme will help memorialise survivors as first-hand accounts diminish

Heritage professionals respond to ‘woke archaeology’ claims

Museum of London research on plague victim ethnicity has faced criticism in parliament