Creativity and Wellbeing Week runs from 10 - 16 June this year. We encourage you to identify any health and wellbeing work that you might be engaged in during that period and submit the event to the Creativity and Wellbeing Week website.
Francesca Crickmere shares three tips for “trying out” placements and internships, to see if this is an activity your museum or heritage organisation could take advantage of to increase your workforce and resource new projects...
‘ENGAGING CURATORS’ is a PhD research project by Jillian Sutherland, in association with Bath Spa University, that asks the question: How does curatorship and audience engagement come together in the small museum?...
An Elizabethan House in Plymouth, and a Miners Chapel in the heart of the community in St. Just, Penwith, have won Coastal Revival Fund grants. The two sites are among the six Heritage England classed 'at risk' sites of the 25 sites that have been awarde...
The SWFed requests proposals for the 2019 conference to be held in July. The conference theme for 2019 is ‘Inspiring Audiences Home and Away’.
The Museums Map is an interactive map of the 1304 museums accredited under Arts Council England's scheme...
Dorset County Museum has been awarded £11.3 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a major redevelopment. It is part of its vision for Tomorrow's Museum - Making Dorset Proud. The work will transform the museum into a state of the art museum.
Dorset’s first arts festival for dementia, Reawakening (15-29 May 2017) will celebrate the county’s heritage, countryside and artistic life – from the Jurassic coast to Thomas Hardy, historic houses and estates, horticulture, ceramics, music, da...
Lymeforward is seeing votes in support of their Aviva Community Fund bid for a step change in the public art presence in the historic town of Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast. "The continuous public art project in Lyme Regis will build on the exper...
Keep your eyes peeled for British Association of Friends of Museums meetings coming up in the New Year. Local meetings are being planned for Bodmin and West Dorset. The RWA recently hosted an invaluable day for BAfM members with speakers including Mike...
