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The Guardian, UK (Tristram Hunt)
- Gayer Anderson Cat Heads To The Shetlands
The Guardian, UK (Maev Kennedy) One of the best-loved objects in the vast British Museum collection, a small bronze cat with its tail sedately wrapped around its feet and wearing golden rings in its ears and nose, is off on a journey its creator could...
- London Museums Urged To Show More 'hidden' Artefacts
BBC News Museums in London are being urged to get more of their collections out of storage and on display as funding cuts will mean fewer landmark exhibitions. Many museums in the capital keep more than 90% of their collections stored away. The Museums...
- Museum Meltdown?
Winnipeg Sun (Ulna Ilnytzky) An article which looks at how the economic downturn has impacted museums in the U.S. and how those museums are responding. While few museums would dare to sell off their treasures, cost-cutting and restructuring has become...
- Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces Thanks to Tom Gray for letting me know about the new Creative Spaces venture. Tom is working with the British Museum and 8 other major British galleries and museums on a new social media project called Creative Spaces. Creative Spaces...
- Bm Heads Visitor Numbers In London, Uk
BBC News Several key London attractions saw increased visitor numbers in 2008, despite the economic downturn. The British Museum proved to be the most popular, with 5.9m visitors, an increase of almost 10% over 2007. But the Association of Leading Visitor...
Egypt
We need to start charging for museums and galleries again
The Guardian, UK (Tristram Hunt)
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent is, according to author AN Wilson, "the greatest museum in the world". Its ceramics collection is rivalled only by the V&A, its Arnold Bennett archive is bettered only by the British Library and its Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasures is second only to the British Museum.
But while it is free to visit the V&A, the British Library and Museum, an entrance fee is set to be charged in Stoke. Across the country, eye-watering cuts to local authority budgets mean that councils are either closing museums or ratcheting up charges. Last week, artist Anish Kapoor accused the Tories of having a "castration complex" about the arts. Yet, in the midst of this, the teeming London museums continue to enjoy a state subsidy to retain free admission.
- Gayer Anderson Cat Heads To The Shetlands
The Guardian, UK (Maev Kennedy) One of the best-loved objects in the vast British Museum collection, a small bronze cat with its tail sedately wrapped around its feet and wearing golden rings in its ears and nose, is off on a journey its creator could...
- London Museums Urged To Show More 'hidden' Artefacts
BBC News Museums in London are being urged to get more of their collections out of storage and on display as funding cuts will mean fewer landmark exhibitions. Many museums in the capital keep more than 90% of their collections stored away. The Museums...
- Museum Meltdown?
Winnipeg Sun (Ulna Ilnytzky) An article which looks at how the economic downturn has impacted museums in the U.S. and how those museums are responding. While few museums would dare to sell off their treasures, cost-cutting and restructuring has become...
- Creative Spaces
Creative Spaces Thanks to Tom Gray for letting me know about the new Creative Spaces venture. Tom is working with the British Museum and 8 other major British galleries and museums on a new social media project called Creative Spaces. Creative Spaces...
- Bm Heads Visitor Numbers In London, Uk
BBC News Several key London attractions saw increased visitor numbers in 2008, despite the economic downturn. The British Museum proved to be the most popular, with 5.9m visitors, an increase of almost 10% over 2007. But the Association of Leading Visitor...