Category: Museum Development North

Arts Council England updates Accreditation guidance

Arts Council England (ACE) has published updated guidance documents for meeting the Accreditation Standard. These have been reviewed and updated to better serve museums and galleries that wish to go through the Accreditation process – making the content easier to follow and more accessible. The Accreditation Standard and its requirements have not changed since the 2018 version – […]

16 December 2024

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Invitation to Present at Celebrating Museums 2025

Invitation to present at MD North’s Celebrating Museums 2025 – Thursday 13 March 2025   We know that museums in the North are delivering work which deserves celebrating. We are therefore delighted to be hosting this information sharing and networking day at the Guildhall in York on 13 March 2025 in partnership with Arts Council England. […]

6 November 2024

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Save The Date! Celebrating Museums 2025

Celebrating Museums, Thursday 13 March 2025  We are pleased to announce the date of our Celebrating Museums event for North museums which will take place in the Guildhall in York.  There will be an opportunity to hear from and network with people from museums all over the North, as well as speakers from Arts Council […]

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Challenges to Museums of Digital Preservation

Archives Consultant Simon Wilson undertook some work to support colleagues at the City of Doncaster Archives – the work was funded through The National Archives Resilience Grants programme. A key component of which was to engage with museum colleagues about the challenges of digital preservation. What is Digital Preservation? Digital Preservation is a series of […]

17 October 2024

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National Lottery Heritage Fund Case Study – Roots & Branches

National Lottery Heritage Fund have produced a case study for the award winning Roots & Branches environmental sustainability project led by Museum Development England, Manchester Museum and the Carbon Literacy Project. Read the case study here

30 August 2024

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Advice And Guidance Following Recent Riots

Security As a response to recent events some museums contacted us seeking advice on the security of historic buildings. All of Arts Council England’s security resources are available on Collections Trust’s website – Security advice – Collections Trust. These include the Museum Security Toolkit and Security Audit to help venues review their security and identify […]

8 August 2024

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Success for Northern Museums at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024

We are very pleased to announce that the Roots and Branches programme has been awarded Sustainable Project of the Year at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024. It won the award jointly with The Scottish Crannog Centre for their 1000 Fingerprints 1000 Voices project. Roots and Branches is a collaboration between The Carbon Literacy Project, Museum Development England, and Manchester Museum. It is […]

16 May 2024

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GEM – Case Studies

GEM has shared their spring Case Studies, the theme of which is ‘Reimaging Engagement’. A number of northern museums have been included in the case studies selected; The Judges Lodgings, National Museums Liverpool, The Auckland Project and Vindolanda. Read the case studies on the GEM website

9 May 2024

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IAASF Conference 2024

This year’s theme will discuss Developing Resilience for the Protection of Cultural Venues at Redworth Hall Hotel, County Durham on the 16th and 17th of October 2024. We welcome speakers and delegates from around the world, with the Middle East, Europe, New Zealand and Canada being on the list last year. We currently have an early bird offer Our […]

8 April 2024

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Get Your House In Order – Collections Documentation Programme

Do you know what you have, where it is and who owns it? Can you afford not to know this? Our ‘Getting Your House in Order’ programme focuses on the planning and work required for museums to get their collections documentation in order.  You can book now for our first 3 sessions, an Introduction to […]

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