26th Jan 2012 ⁄ The Design Museum has unveiled plans to create the world’s leading museum of design and architecture at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, London. Designs for the site have been produced by two of the world’s most innovative architectural...
4th Jan 2012 ⁄ Membership of the UK’s national fundraising charity, the Art Fund, has increased by 15% in 2011 to just fewer than 90,000 members, thanks to the enormous success of the launch of the National Art Pass in April this year. The National Art Pass gives membership...
6th Dec 2011 ⁄ London ⁄ The Design Museum has added 13 classics to its collection. They include a Sony Walkman, a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle and an example of the motorway signage system, whose standardised typeface, designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert...
16th May 2011 ⁄ North West ⁄ MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester) was voted winner of the M & H Online Readers Award, as part of the 2011 Museums & Heritage Awards for Excellence, announced last night. TV presenter and comedienne Sue Perkins revealed the winners of the coveted awards at a glittering ceremony in Church House, Westminster.
Over 10,000 readers and m...
15th Dec 2010 ⁄ South West ⁄ In its first commission for Bath’s Holburne Museum, Cheltenham and Bath-based creative marketing agency Utopia produced a series of new designs for the recent launch of the museum's public appeal for its multi-million pound development project.
7th Oct 2010 ⁄ East of England ⁄ Join Costume Curator Danielle Sprecher at Ipswich Museum for a day of fashion history and creativity in these unique and stimulating workshops.
12th Aug 2010 ⁄ North West ⁄ Wannabe scientists are invited to a tea party with a difference this weekend in Manchester city centre. At the Mad Scientists’ Tea Party on Saturday 14 August visitors are asked to dress in their best ‘mad scientist’ outfit and encouraged to learn about the chemistry of their cuppas, nibble an exploding cupcake, or try their hands at blowing...
13th Jul 2010 ⁄ North West ⁄ As many astute Mancunians might have noticed, Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry is currently renovating its main building. The new design is costing £7 million, and is going to incorporate as much recycled material as possible, even including recycled banknotes.
The wide use of creative recycling ...
18th Mar 2010 ⁄ Scotland ⁄ A campaign has been launched to promote Edinburgh as a world-leading City of Print under plans to celebrate a 500-year history of the printing and publishing trade in the capital.
16th Mar 2010 ⁄ Writer and broadcaster Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC and one of the museum’s patrons, will today launch the newly transformed Jewish Museum London in Camden Town...
8th Feb 2010 ⁄ South West ⁄ Bath’s Fashion Museum has announced its Dress of the Year 2009 – selected annually by a top fashion expert every year since the museum opened in 1963.
11th Jan 2010 ⁄ East of England ⁄ As an artist myself I have spent many long hours wandering round museums drawing from exhibits and collecting ideas. I especially love natural history for all the colours and textures and information on the collections themselves.
Currently on at the Museum of Zoology is an exhibition featuring th...
10th Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Blue Yates is a professional Classical guitarist, performer and recording artist, specialising in Classical, Acoustic and Latin genres and this February marks the 10 year anniversary of his guitar tui...
