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Tate Announce 'Sharing Works of Art' Workshops for Museums

The training will be delivered across two days and will aim to explore a deeper understanding of the principles of collection management and how to bring judgement to their application.
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National Motor Museum wins major collections management award

– National Motor Museum wins major collections management award

'Keep Calm and STEAM Ahead' project has won the 2017 Collections Trust Award for its Keep CALM and STEAM Ahead project.
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Are you an example of good practice in the Care of Larger and Working objects?

ABTEM (The Association of British Transport and Engineering Museums) is pleased to inform you that they ave now completed the first draft of the revised Guidelines for the Care of Larger and...
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ABTEM Larger & Working Objects Guidelines – Call For Interested Parties

The Association of British Transport & Engineering Museums (ABTEM) has recently appointed the International Railway Heritage Consultancy (IRHC) to work with them to produce new guidelines for museums and private collectors with larger and working obje
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SPECTRUM 5.0 consultation draft

– SPECTRUM 5.0 consultation draft

SPECTRUM is the UK collection management standard that is also used around the world. Here you can find a consultation draft of the next version – SPECTRUM 5.0. Please take a look and let Collections Trust have your comments and questions by Monday
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Free Mangle available from Maidstone Museum

– Free Mangle available from Maidstone Museum

Maidstone Museum would like to give a mangle a new home
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CALL FOR PARTNERS – Object Journeys project 2017/18, The British Museum

The British Museum are currently seeking a new museum partner to work with us on the third community collaboration project Object Journeys, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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CALL FOR PAPERS – British Museum Conference 2017 “Get what you give? The value and benefits of proactively lending collections”

The British Museum are seeking proposals for this year’s National Programmes conference at the British Museum on 31 August 2017, which will explore the subject of lending museum collections.
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ICOMOS-UK’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee secures ACE funding for its innovative project- ‘Exploring Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museum Contexts’

Selected South East Museums will benefit from ACE funded project looking at the intangible benefits of collections
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British Council announces projects supported by the Cultural Protection Fund

A new £30million fund set up in partnership with DCMS in order to safeguard and promote cultural heritage at risk due to conflict overseas gives details of its first projects
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Horniman offers free loans to South East Museums

Object in Focus: Free short-term loans from the Horniman Museum & Gardens
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Collections Trust publish tips for increasing access to museum storage

On their blog, the Collections Trust publish regular updates and useful guidance on a wide range of subjects surrounding museum documentation. From an introduction to their outreach programme, which...
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Call for Papers - European Axiell User Conference 2016

Axiell are looking for presenters for each of the sessions. If you have something to share, that you think would be of value to other users - they’d like to hear from you.
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Art Fund offers more than acquisition grants

– Art Fund offers more than acquisition grants

For over 100 years, the Art Fund has been helping museums and galleries purchase art for their collections. Now, it is also investing in curatorial support beyond acquisition grants. Here...
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Deadline for Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund is fast approaching... (23rd March!)

Grants of between £20,000 and £100,000 are available to museums, galleries and heritage or-ganisations for projects that include research into collections, conservation, collections review and initiatives to develop the use of collections.
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Preventive Conservation offer for Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Medway museums

– Preventive Conservation offer for Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Medway museums

A new year's message from our Preventive Conservation Officer, Emily Nisbet-Hawkins, offering lots of support, advice, training and resources for museums in Surrey, Sussex, Kent & Medway.
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Help improve SPECTRUM: the UK Collection Management Standard

– Help improve SPECTRUM: the UK Collection Management Standard

The Collections Trust is consulting widely to check that SPECTRUM: the UK Collection Management Standard still meets the needs of museums large and small. This will inform the next revision, SPECTRUM 5.0, to be published in 2017.
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Navigating the Art Market Professional Development Course

The Art Fund has announced a refreshed version of their Navigating the Art Market professional development course for 2016. Developed in partnership with Sotheby's Institute of Art, the course is designed to promote a practical understanding of the art ma
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The Social History Curators Group call for papers for 2016 conference

– The Social History Curators Group call for papers for 2016 conference

The Social History Curators Group call for papers for 2016 conference, titled 'The Only Way Is Ethics: Social History and the 21st Century Museum'. The conference is taking place in June 2016, and the deadline for the call for papers is 29th January 2016
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Call for Papers: 'Objectively Speaking - the value and practice of object based teaching'

A free conference and debate to be held at the British Museum, is now looking for papers.
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Collections Trust – Usability testing

The Collections Trust is currently in the planning stages of redeveloping their website and they need your input.
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Call for Papers - The 2016 Photographic Materials Working Group

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Photographic Materials Working Group of ICOM-CC are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2016 Photographic Materials Working Group Interim Meeting, scheduled for 21 – 24 September 2016 in Amsterdam, the Ne
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A new 'Collections for All' website for natural sciences

'Collections for All' is a space for helping to connect people to natural science collections throughout the UK. They are doing this through sharing the values of natural science collections in relation to research, science, museum practice, engagement an
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Learning Museum Call for partners 2015

– Learning Museum Call for partners 2015

Open call for partners for the second phase of Learning Museum, the British Museum’s latest Skills for the Future programme, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
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Call for Papers: Selection, De-selection and Rationalisation

Day conference hosted by CIfA Archaeological Archives Group and including the AAG AGM
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New AIM Success Guide launched: Successfully Managing Archives in Museums

– New AIM Success Guide launched: Successfully Managing Archives in Museums

The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) has just launched a new online publication called 'Successfully Managing Archives in Museums' as part of its popular Success Guide series. Authored by Emma Chaplin and Janice Tullock and funded by The National
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NatSCA's Bill Pettit Memorial Award is open

– NatSCA's Bill Pettit Memorial Award is open

NatSCA is pleased to invite applications to this year’s Bill Pettit Memorial Award. Up to £1,500 of grant money will be made available to NatSCA members every year to support projects including the conservation, access, and use of natural scienc
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Art Fund New Collecting Awards

– Art Fund New Collecting Awards

This funding programme enables promising and ambitious curators to pursue new avenues of collecting for their museums, and at the same time build critical professional
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The Collections Trust Awards 2015 - nominations open!

– The Collections Trust Awards 2015 - nominations open!

Nominations are now open for the Collections Trust Awards, which will be taking place at the Collections Trust Annual Conference at the Natural History Museum in London on 22 September 2015.
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New Kent Heritage Resource Centre to open at Smarden

– New Kent Heritage Resource Centre to open at Smarden

A new resource Centre for regional heritage groups is being established at Smarden as a result of a partnership agreement signed last week by Smarden Local History Society and Kent Archaeological Society.
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Collections Trust Conference 2015

– Collections Trust Conference 2015

The Collections Trust are pleased to announce that their flagship annual conference will be presented at the Natural History Museum on 22 September 2015 in London.
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Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund is open for applications

The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, run by the Museums Association, focuses on time-limited collections work outside the scope of an organisation’s core resources. Applications are now being invited.
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AIM launches the 'Hallmarks of Prospering Museums' framework

– AIM launches the 'Hallmarks of Prospering Museums' framework

The Association of Independent Museums (AIM) launched an important new initiative to help museums at its national conference this month. The “AIM Hallmarks of Prospering Museums” is a framework that helps museums and heritage organisations ide
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Campaign for Good Curatorship – launch and call for Committee members

– Campaign for Good Curatorship – launch and call for Committee members

The Campaign for Good Curatorship celebrates the fact that great museums need good curators.
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ABTEM (Association of British Transport and Engineering Museums) to undertake scoping work to update MGC standards

Supported by Arts Council England (ACE) Subject Specialist Network (SSN) funding, ABTEM has recently commissioned museum consultant Rob Shorland-Ball to carry out a Scoping Study on the feasibility of developing and updating the MGC 1994 Standard 4: Stand
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Cultural Property Advice

The migration of the Cultural Property Advice website into the Collections Trust's website has begun.
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Museum Designation Scheme re-opened

On Wednesday 15 April the Designation Scheme was re-opened to applications.
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Uniques Project website goes live

– Uniques Project website goes live

Bexhill Museum (lead partner) and four other museums in the South East carried out an ethnographic collections review project in 2014-2015, funded by the Arts Council England’s Strategic Support Fund.
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10 Museum Sector Bodies Publish Statement on Unethical Sale from Museums Collections

"As a group of the key funding, development and membership bodies for the museums sector, we are seriously concerned about cases of unethical sale from museum collections and the targeting of collections as a source of income."
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Sharing collections online with the ECK

Sharing collections information online through platforms like Europeana and Wikipedia is a great way to unlock the potential in your collections, which is why the Collections Trust have been working...
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Museums with artefacts containing asbestos

– Museums with artefacts containing asbestos

The Health and Safety Executive has granted a class exemption to the museum sector to enable the loan / transfer of artefacts that contain asbestos, between exhibitions etc.
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Leading professionals join the Collections Trust Board

– Leading professionals join the Collections Trust Board

The Collections Trust, the professional association for people working in collections management, has announced the appointment of six new Trustees to its existing Board following an open recruitment campaign.
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Object identification resources - available to borrow for free!

– Object identification resources - available to borrow for free!

The SSN Social History Curators Group (SHCG) has designed a series of resources, Object Lessons, to help develop skills and confidence in identifying and caring for core materials found in social...
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Preventive Conservation assessments and training available for Surrey, Sussex and Kent museums

– Preventive Conservation assessments and training available for Surrey, Sussex and Kent museums

Opportunity to request a bespoke in-house training day or audit to support your collection care needs.
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Naturally Curious

– Naturally Curious

The new Naturally Curious website is now live. This is part of a programme of activities to understand, celebrate and make good use of our collective natural history collections and...
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Can you spare a few minutes to answer a museum storage survey?

Museums Studies student Paula Nichols from the University of Leicester is writing her dissertation on the issue of the future of collecting and lack of adequate storage space in museums. The...
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Designation applications will reopen in 2015

– Designation applications will reopen in 2015

The revised Designation scheme, currently in pilot phase, will reopen for applications in spring 2015.   Following a consultation, Arts Council England (ACE) is to refocus the scheme on its...
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Pearls and wisdom - the Arts Council vision for the future of the Designation Scheme

– Pearls and wisdom - the Arts Council vision for the future of the Designation Scheme

Arts Council England has published Pearls and wisdom - our vision for future of the Designation Scheme for collections of national significance. Pearls and wisdom will provide the basis for the...
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Acceptance in Lieu scheme

– Acceptance in Lieu scheme

The Arts Council has announced, through the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme, the availability of 40 works by the leading British contemporary artist Auerbach and additional works for allocation - live...
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Accreditation update, July 2014

– Accreditation update, July 2014

Arts Council England (ACE) has issued revised Accreditation guidance documents and Collections Development Template. The standard itself has not changed, the guidance documents are purely...
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Reviewing and Rationalising: 'Interesting, practically helpful and relevant from start to finish'

– Reviewing and Rationalising: 'Interesting, practically helpful and relevant from start to finish'

Consultant Emma Chaplin, provided a really useful and enjoyable one-day workshop in Winchester last week. 'Reviewing and Rationalising - steps to making the most of your...
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New exceptions to Copyright will help museums, says expert Naomi Korn

New exceptions to copyright were implemented in early June 2014. Museums copyright expert Naomi Korn has written a helpful article explaining some of the ways in which museums will benefit from...
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The Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme

– The Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme

In 2012, the Art Fund launched a new £50,000 annual funding stream aimed at helping maintain and develop curatorial expertise in UK museums.  The Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants...
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Accreditation Update, May 2014

– Accreditation Update, May 2014

Updated guidance documents and CDP Template from Elaine Sansom, Accreditation Adviser (London and the South East) A new version of the Disposal Toolkit and additional guidance on financially...
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Collections Trust: Collections on a Budget Award - Deadline extended to Friday 16 May

– Collections Trust: Collections on a Budget Award - Deadline extended to Friday 16 May

Despite record entries for the other Collections Trust Awards, response to this category has so far been disappointing. So the Collections Trust have extended the deadline to Friday 16 May. ...
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Emergency Salvage Kit now available to Kent Museums

Salvage Kit A – Emergency Salvage Kit now available to Kent Museums

While we hope it should never be needed, the emergency salvage kits, materials and equipment are now ready for museums to use should the unthinkable occur. Everything is being stored at the Historic...
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New 'Kent Salvage Group' launched

– New 'Kent Salvage Group' launched

In February this year,14 people from across the county's museums and heritage sites gathered at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham to find out how to manage in the aftermath of an emergency led...
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Shared Harwell's Priority User Agreement for Kent museums?

– Shared Harwell's Priority User Agreement for Kent museums?

In February this year,14 people from across the county's museums and heritage sites gathered at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham to find out how to manage in the aftermath of an emergency led...
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New copyright exceptions - do you know how they affect your museum?

CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have launched a campaign to try and build support from across the sector for the proposed changes to the copyright laws. Read more...
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Collections Trust - Welcome to Collections

– Collections Trust - Welcome to Collections

Collections Trust is an independent organisation that works with museums, libraries, galleries and archives to improve the management and use of their collections. It does this by providing know-how,...
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New Disposal Toolkit available from ACE

– New Disposal Toolkit available from ACE

A new version of the Disposal Toolkit and additional guidance on financially motivated disposal from museum collections has been published. Arts Council England have worked closely on this with the...
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Museum2Museum collection care session at the Powell Cotton Museum a great success

– Museum2Museum collection care session at the Powell Cotton Museum a great success

On Monday 17th March, 12 museum staff and volunteers from across the county joined the team at the Powell Cotton Museum for their first Museum2Museum sharing skills session. The day began with Sarah...
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Everyone mucks in to help with a practical exercise in salvaging wet collections

– Everyone mucks in to help with a practical exercise in salvaging wet collections

On Wednesday 26th February, 14 people from across the county's museums and heritage sites gathered at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham to find out how to manage in the aftermath of an emergency....
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Preventive Conservation Training Days for Museums in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Medway

– Preventive Conservation Training Days for Museums in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Medway

New Year, New training days.  The three sessions below are an idea of the type of training available to your museum absolutely free of charge through the Museum Development Programme. ...
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Object in Focus: free short-term loans from the Horniman Museum & Gardens

– Object in Focus: free short-term loans from the Horniman Museum & Gardens

Object in Focus is a three year project funded by Arts Council England to proactively loan objects out to museums and non-museum venues. The aim is to increase access to stored collections, promote...
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NatSCA Evaluation Survey Report

– NatSCA Evaluation Survey Report

NatSCA, the Natural Sciences Collections Association network, are pleased to present the findings of an Arts Council England funded study into the audiences of mixed discipline...
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Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants Programme

In 2012 Art Fund launched a new £50,000 annual funding stream aimed at helping maintain and develop curatorial expertise in UK museums.  The Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants...
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Hampshire Solent Museums - need assistance to clarify ownership of items in your collection?

Our student volunteering project in partnership with the University of Portsmouth Masters in Corporate Governance and Law can help. Expression of interest deadline 30 January 2014
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Short-term fellowships at The Yale Center for British Art

– Short-term fellowships at The Yale Center for British Art

The Yale Center for British Art invites applications for short-term residential fellowships from Curators based in municipal and regional museums in the UK, beyond London, whose curatorial remit or...
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E-learning from the Museum of London

– E-learning from the Museum of London

The Museum of London has some useful online learning covering the following topics: Emergency Planning Tool Handling Museum Objects Introduction to Museum Pests Packing Museum Objects for Storage...
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ENUMERATE

ENUMERATE is an international initiative to build a better body of evidence about digitisation, digital preservation and the re-use of digital material in our sector. The aim is to provide...
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Proposed copyright exceptions for museums, libraries and archives

A statement on proposed new copyright exceptions for museums, libraries and archives has been agreed by the whole museum sector and co-ordinated by the National Museums Directors Council for the...
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Changes in Accreditation: An update from Samuel Rowlands, (Accreditation Manager)

After a detailed review of the implementation of the revised Accreditation Standard and consideration of feedback received, changes are being implemented to the Accreditation returns programme. These...
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A Health Check for Numismatics

Do you want a ‘health check’ for your numismatics?   The Money and Medals Network is an Arts Council funded project that exists to build and develop relationships between UK museums...
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‘Treasure Plus’ funding available from the Art Fund

Last month, the Art Fund announced a new funding programme, Treasure Plus, supported by The Headley Trust.  This programme is designed to help museums of all sizes deepen public engagement with...
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Archaeology in Museums

On Friday 8th February, 16 delegates from museums, big and small, and from various archaeology trusts and societies, joined us at Maidstone Museum for a session on archaeology. Jennifer Jackson,...
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Industrial Heritage

Are you an Industrial Heritage site? Ian Bapty has been employed as Industrial Heritage Support Officer based at Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust and will be providing information and support for...
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The National Heritage Landmarks Partnership Scheme

AIM, the Association of Independent Museums, has announced the opening of the Year 2 Applications. AIM entered into a 3 year funding partnership with Biffa Award which will provide a £1.5m...
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