As glittering awards go it doesn't get much shinier than the Gulbenkian Prize for museums. The annual £100,000 competition goes to the best museum project in the previous 12 months and the prize has been running for five years.
The Museums Association is re-examining its disposal guidelines for the UK, but in the US there is growing disquiet about the more liberal deaccessioning practices, writes Jane Morris
The kerfuffle in the press about whether the Conservative Party is in favour or not of bringing back admission charges for national museums serves as a useful reminder of what's changed over the past ten years.