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Playing a central and important role as the keeper of Bolton’s history, the town’s museum has been part of Boltonians leisure time and education for over 120 years. Originally founded in 1852 it was not long before the growing collection needed more space and work started on Le Mans Crescent which, after war interrupted development, finally opened to the public ...

  The Audience Agency is a not for profit organisation set up to work with and serve the cultural sector with a team of experienced arts and culture specialists who provide a wide variety of consultancy and research services to organisations across the UK. The Audience Agency’s latest offering comes in the form of Audience Finder, a tool which allows ...

Government will boost tourism across the UK through new five point plan The Prime Minister today announced the government’s new Five Point Plan (PDF, 8.26MB, 9 pages) to boost tourism right across the UK - spreading the benefits of one of our fastest growing sectors beyond the capital, helping to create jobs and rebalance the economy. A new inter-ministerial group ...

The North West Federation of Museums (NWFED) is really pleased announce that we will be working closely with Museum Development North West (MDNW) to assist in the their Museum Development programme for 2015-18. As part of MDNW’s wide ranging programme of support for the sector, the NWFED has been asked to take the lead with one part of their Museum Development Plan focusing ...

  Chandigarh, the capital of the Indian Punjab, was seen as a ground-breaking experiment in town planning when it was commissioned following Indian Independence in 1947.  Designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, the city’s orderly grid of boulevards combined with extensive stretches of green were felt to represent a new India which was ready to embrace the country’s independent future. ...

In 2014 the gallery underwent a radical £15m transformation, doubling in size – and while it was closed, ran a series of experimental pop-up events. The Whitworth Institute and Park opened its doors in 1889 with support from 60 eminent Mancunians, including CP Scott, the editor of the Manchester Guardian. Part of the University of Manchester, it was founded in memory of the industrialist Sir Joseph Whitworth, ...

It was announced at 9pm on Saturday 16th May that the Williamson Art Gallery and Wirral Museums gained the public vote during a contest with 4 other national venues to win the opportunity to host a major exhibition in October working with internationally known artists, Davy and Kristin McGuire. The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead winning bid was to ...

      Photo caption: Renee Caley, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Marketing Manager with Matthew Richardson, Curator, Manx National Heritage  Manx National Heritage and the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham have reunited the two bikes that participated in what is widely recognised as the greatest TT race of all time. Carl Fogarty’s Loctite Yamaha 0W01, owned by Manx ...

written by Chrissy Partheni The NWFED is committed to the role of museums and cultural providers play in promoting equality and human rights issues.  Given this commitment and the range of recent different projects across the North on LGBT communities and histories, we chose to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia by offering the opportunity for different practitioners to come together and discuss their practices. The event ...

Headland has been providing heritage design and consultancy services for more than 20 years. We particularly enjoy our projects in the north-west, often in museums that we visit with our families or where we already know the staff and volunteers. I was Museum Officer at the Cheshire Military Museum in Chester, when I first met the Headland team, who were ...

In partnership with National Museums Liverpool, the University of Leicester recently unveiled the world’s first museum studies Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). MOOCs are online courses with unlimited participation. ‘Behind the scenes at the 21st Century museum’ is a six-week course, comprising of two hours a week. Since it was launched, 4,000 people have signed up for the course which ...

The £790,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is supported by match funding of over £50,000 from the Wolfson Foundation. The HLF support will fund three key initiatives getting underway early in 2015 as part of the museum’s ‘Window on the World’ project. The first strand will see new exhibitions and interactive displays created, including hands on activities for visitors ...