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The Macclesfield Silk Heritage Trust is an independent charity established in 1987 to champion the incredible history of Macclesfield and the surrounding area through its collections and museums, which include The Silk Museum, Paradise Mill, West Park Museum, and The Old Sunday School. Their mission is to celebrate and share the extraordinary story of Macclesfield; a story of creativity, industry ...

Warrington Museum and Art Gallery is one of the oldest museums in the country and provides an award-winning programme of events, temporary exhibitions, and regular free family-friendly craft activities throughout the year. It is now managed by Culture Warrington which was formed in 2012, and delivers the ever-popular Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival. ...

Norton Priory is the most excavated monastic site in Europe. Boasting the ruins of an Abbey, 12th century undercroft, and an 18th century Walled Garden, it is located within an oasis of tranquil woodland and wildflower meadows. The new museum displays thousands of artefacts from Norton’s 900 year history including the internationally significant 14th century statue of St Christopher. ...

HRH The Prince of Wales is welcomed onboard Osprey by John Eaton, David Dunlop, Paul Pearson and Ian Shirra at Windermere Jetty. Photo Jan Chlebik After an extensive £20 million development project by Lakeland Arts, the Windermere Jetty Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories finally opened to the public earlier this year on the 23 March.  Following its public opening, ...

The University of Manchester and Manchester City Council have today announced that Alistair Hudson, currently Director of the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima), will be the new Director of Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth. Alistair will take up his role in the New Year. He succeeds Maria Balshaw at the Whitworth and Manchester Art Gallery following her appointment ...

The Family Friendly Museum Award is the biggest museum award in Britain and the only award where families pick the winner. Earlier this year we received over 700 nominations from families and museums that were whittled down to a shortlist of ten. These were then road-tested by our family judges against the eight points in the Kids in Museums Mini ...

The Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library in Preston has a long track record of partnership working with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). During the last twenty years this has taken many forms from placements and paid internships for students to the development of joint artistic programmes between the two organisations. In Certain Places was set up in 2003 ...

Image courtesy Chrissy Partheni NWFED Event: A Beginner’s Guide to Handling, Packing and Moving Museum Objects When: Thursday 10 November 2016 Where:  Museum of Science and Industry, Liverpool Road, Manchester Report by Guest Blogger, Laura Biggadike, Galleries Coordinator, The Lowry, Salford As a recent Masters graduate who now works as a Galleries Coordinator at The Lowry, I would consider myself ...

In the newly re-opened Norton Priory Museum a small group of museum professional from numerous organisations across the North West gathered to listen to case studies from organisations that have successfully established and developed partnerships with universities to aid their research and develop new income streams. Frank Hargrave, Director of Norton Priory, welcomed everyone and started the day’s presentations with ...

The NWFed is pleased to announce the appointment of new Board member, Alex Walker, who is currently acting as the North West's representative of the Museums Association. Despite recently retiring from her position as Head of Arts and Heritage at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Alex is continuing to remain highly active within the sector across the North West and nationally. Alex recently become ...

Local Warrington man Roger Hunt, a member of the World Cup-winning England team in 1966, signs up as the first patron of our new membership scheme, with Culture Warrington’s board chair Maureen Banner.  Image Courtesy: Culture Warrington. The team at Culture Warrington have always been dedicated to making the town a thriving centre of activity and work tirelessly to promote ...

Earlier this year the Museums Association launched a new online database called Find a Museum.  A valuable and useful online tool, it allows anyone working for an institution with membership of the Museums Association to search for information about other museums collections, find contact details for fellow museum professionals, search relevant academic courses and find qualified training providers. Having rolled ...