NewsBritish Museums
UK museums are back open—but visitors are staying away
Our data shows that most major London art museums had many available booking slots for next-day entry despite operating reduced capacity
AnalysisBlack Lives Matter
Reform or reset? How cultural institutions are facing a reckoning over racism
US and UK museums have been accused of tokenism, hypocrisy and fake solidarity for rushing to declare support for Black Lives Matter. Where do they go from here?
NewsMuseums
'Alarmingly at odds with reality': museum directors attack Creative Industries Federation's report on impact of coronavirus
Report estimates virus is causing 9% drop in revenue, but chairman of the UK National Museum Directors’ Council says 50% loss is more accurate
NewsSocial media
Long lost families reunited: social media campaign uncovers the links between objects across UK museums
Galleries on lockdown connect online during coronavirus pandemic using #CollectionsUnited
NewsBritish Museums
UK museums put £500m projects on pause during the lockdown but plan to carry on
Enforced delay due to Covid-19 could add to millions of pounds of lost income in the sector
BlogDiary of an art historian
UK national museums could learn a lot from their regional cousins
When it comes to having a historian rummaging in their stores, smaller institutions tend to be more enthusiastic and accommodating
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Southampton's new art space takes over tower of 700-year-old city gateway
Exhibition venue and heritage attraction inside Grade I-listed monument God's House Tower is called GHT
NewsAppointments & departures
Co-directors step down from London's Design Museum after more than a decade
Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black will leave in January
NewsEthics
How ethical can museums afford to be? We ask five major UK art institutions about funding challenges
We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate
NewsBritish Museum
British Museum to display hundreds of thousands of archived artefacts in new storage facility
BM Arc will provide the institution with 15,628 sq.m to show its objects in greater context and increase public access
ArchiveBritish Museums
Warning over Qatar’s human rights record
UK museums’ close ties questioned after poet imprisoned for 15 years
ArchiveRestitution
Ten years after our report, the looted Benevento Missal will be returned to the cathedral
How The Art Newspaper changed the law
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Queen to send Leonardos on UK tour
Celebrating Prince Charles' 60th with 10 of the master's best works
ArchiveBritish Museums
Board games: trustees today have fallen out of love with institutions
Does the trustee system need to be reevaluated?
ArchiveOpinion
All’s well in the world of museums
A look at the global climate of public institutions
ArchiveCultural policy
Controversy over "ethnic targets" at British national museums
The government wants to set precise goals for the number of ethnic minority visitors to museums and make funding dependent on achieving them
ArchiveRestitution
MPs would return the Elgin Marbles: Debates on museum policies concerning restitution requests continue
Restitution guidelines in the UK are changing with the times, but the marbles remain with the British Museum for now
CommentFunding
'Be commercially minded or lose future funding': UK government's threat puts museums in peril
In a letter leaked to The Art Newspaper, the culture minister Oliver Dowden tells directors they must raise their own funds during the pandemic—but how?
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