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Kids in Museums to run two free events & takeover surgeries open to museums, galleries, archives or heritage sites. News Job Opportunity ViL Project 2017-18 This Surrey, East & West Sussex Museum Development funded opportunity continues with our aim to support museums to develop sustainable practices in volunteer management. News Job Opportunity Did you take part in October's Museums At Night? Culture24 are currently collating feedback and visitor numbers, and you can help by encouraging the museums in your patch who took part by running an event to fill in their Venue Survey. News Job Opportunity Are you ready for Takeover Day on 20th November? 'Takeover Day' is an exciting and highly successful event with children and young people all over the UK taking charge of museums, galleries and heritage sites. This year the event will be taking place again on 20thNovember and you are invited to be part News Job Opportunity AIM VisitorVerdict: Discounted Rates until September 30 2015 Since October 2013, the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) in partnership with BDRC Continental, has run a free online visitor benchmarking survey service called AIM VisitorVerdict. This scheme... News Job Opportunity Creative Museums opportunity (Small museums) A research and development opportunity for small museums to enrich the visitor experience and develop new business opportunities has arisen. News Job Opportunity Hampshire Solent museums: apply for funding to take part in Visitor Finder or Visitor Verdict As announced at 'Getting to Grips with Audience Data' 5 grants of up to £100 to help your museum improve use of audience data. It's first come, first served! News Job Opportunity Shortlist for Family Friendly Museum Award 2015 Announced This year’s shortlist for the Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award is a reflection of all the different sorts of museums in Britain, and how each one can offer a wonderful welcome to families. News Job Opportunity 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 News Job Opportunity Event Expenses Fund: £50 - £200 for your group to support Voluntary Arts Week events in Kent Voluntary Arts Week is an annual celebration of cultural creativity across the UK and RoI. It is run by Voluntary Arts who provide local, regional and national press and media support and social media campaigns featuring events listed as part of the week. News Job Opportunity Museums from across Kent & Medway 'create a school workshop' On Tuesday 3rd February, a group of staff and volunteers from across Kent & Medway museums and heritage sites got together to find out how to create an effective and enjoyable workshop for schools. News Job Opportunity Have you VanGo'd yourself? Culture24 tells us how VanGoYourself is a website that allows people to recreate artworks from museums and galleries around the world. VanGoYourself offers a unique and fun way for couple to celebrate Valentine’s Day, as well as gaining a new perspective and engagement w News Job Opportunity Welcome to Excellence - customer service training for employees and volunteers Welcome to Excellence is a suite of high impact nationally available courses covering a range of customer service topics. News Job Opportunity International Jodi Awards for Accessible Digital Culture - Call for Applications Applications for the Jodi Awards 2015 are now invited. The Jodi Awards recognise the best use of digital technology in widening access to information, collections, learning and creativity for... News Job Opportunity Small Experiment & Community Catalyst funding available for Swale & Medway The next deadline to apply for a Small Experiment or Community Catalyst grant is Monday, September 15th at 12 noon. What is a Small Experiment? This is an opportunity for anyone to experiment with... News Job Opportunity Fareham Museum wins 'Safer Place' award Does your museum maximise its social impact by offering a warm welcome to vulnerable people? The 'Safer Places' scheme aims to provide vulnerable people, and particularly those... News Job Opportunity South & East Museum Federation AGM Update Cambridge Study day — New Audiences, New Developments (Museum of Cambridge, Kettles Yard and the Cambridge Museum of Technology) Coming to the AGM? – Enough for many people to make their... News Job Opportunity Heritage Lottery Fund investment to transform MERL The Museum of English Rural Life has received a confirmed award of £1,798,200 for the Our Country Lives project from the Heritage Lottery Fund. You can read the official announcement from the... News Job Opportunity AIM Visitor Verdict benchmarking scheme – places available, and a seminar day in London Places are still available for this year on Visitor Verdict - AIM's new visitor research and benchmarking scheme. Eighty new places have been made available, with the scheme also now open... News Job Opportunity New 'Social Media Guides for Museums' now available As part of the Museums in the Digital Age series of work in Kent & Medway, a series of Social Media Guidance sheets were drafted, and are now available. They cover: Glossary (of various... News Job Opportunity Small Experiment & Community Catalyst funding available for Swale & Medway What is a Small Experiment? This is an opportunity for anyone to experiment with innovative methods of planning and shaping projects and involving local people in activities. You could put on a... News Job Opportunity 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... News Job Opportunity Mary Rose Museum: Finalist for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014 The new Mary Rose Museum that opened 31 May 2013 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, is one of six finalists selected for the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014. This prestigious award celebrates the achievements of the best UK museums and galleries News Job Opportunity The Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission ‘I urge everyone to share their views with me on how the UK should commemorate and educate future generations about the Holocaust’: David Cameron, the Prime Minister. The purpose of the... News Job Opportunity Partnership investment - open call from Artswork Artswork, in its role as the South East Bridge organisation (exept the Kent districts of Dartfort, Gravesham, Swale and Medway), is looking to develop and support strategic and... News Job Opportunity 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... News Job Opportunity Do museums worry too much when it comes to digital and social media? The 'Communcations Stategies for the Digital Age' training day held on Friday 17th January at Christ Church University, Kent, as part of the 'Museums in the Digital Age'... News Job Opportunity 'Frontline Kent' Plans for commemorating the First World War Centenary in Kent are coming together As many of you know, last March the Museum Development Programme in Kent & Medway held a First World War themed networking session (with a follow up held in November). ... News Job Opportunity 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... News Job Opportunity AIM Visitor Verdict benchmarking scheme - update Over 120 museums have completed their registration for AIM’s new visitor experience benchmarking scheme, Visitor Verdict, and over 1,000 visitors have already been invited to share feedback... News Job Opportunity New Expressions 3 (NE3) New Expressions 3 (NE3), a national pathfinder project, has just been launched as a collaboration between contemporary visual artists, museums and historic places. NE3 explores, pioneers and... News Job Opportunity Power to Change programme: Big Lottery Fund On 6th December the Big Lottery Fund announced their new £150m Power to Change initiative to support the development of sustainable community-led enterprises across England. It will be... News Job Opportunity MuseumNext call for papers MuseumNext brings together delegates from around the world to discuss 'what's next?' for the museum sector; how can we adapt to changing audience expectation and how technology is... News Job Opportunity Google launches Open Gallery to help any museum or gallery create online exhibits Google has been working with a range of museums and galleries to deliver fascinating digital exhibits via the Google Cultural Institute for a while. Now, however, the Internet giant is opening... News Job Opportunity Kent County Council's Art Investment Fund now open Kent County Council invests in the arts because it values the contribution Arts and Culture bring to the wellbeing of the county and its potential to grow the Kent economy. It is recognised... News Job Opportunity 'Frontline Kent' - share your First World War plans with the nation The Kent & Medway Museum Development Programme has been working with Visit Kent, Culture24 and the Imperial War Museum to devise a 'one stop' events form to capture all your plans for the... News Job Opportunity Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - best Large Visitor Attraction Portsmouth Historic Dockyard has been awarded Gold for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Beautiful South's Awards for Excellence 2013-2014 News Job Opportunity Museums at Night 2014 - Children's Authors Culture24 are offering museums the chance to host a children’s/young adults' author for Museums at Night 2014. Every year they collaborate with the Reading Agency to connect Museums at... News Job Opportunity Measuring the Impact of the Arts How do you measure and evidence the impact of your work? A New Direction, Arts Inform, The Barbican, The Roundhouse The Lyric and The Royal Opera House, alongside London Transport Museum, The... News Job Opportunity What is the Future of Museum Learning? In the summer of 2013 Arts Council England commissioned Sam Cairns to run an enquiry, 'Future of museum learning for children and young people', with the museum sector in England. The... News Job Opportunity Inspired by My Museum: Writing Competition - British Council India This writing competition was launched at the Museums Association Conference in Liverpool in November. Entries can be poems, short stories or reports - up to 400 words long - inspired by a visit... News Job Opportunity Pitch for a Connect10 artist! What's the Connect10 competition about? Museums at Night is the annual after-hours festival showcasing the arts and heritage sector, which each year offers great audience development... News Job Opportunity The Happy Museum Project - publication of Learning and Evaluation Report The Happy Museum Project have announced the publication of their first major Learning and Evaluation report. One of the principles of Happy Museum is to ‘measure what matters’, and the... News Job Opportunity The Happy Museum Project - Invitation to take part in National Wellbeing Research Programme In 2013 the Happy Museum Project proved that museums make people happy, with evidence analysed by ‘happiness economist’ Daniel Fujiwara of the London School of Economics. It was shown... News Job Opportunity Home Atmospheres: Sensing and Feeling at Home - Call for Papers The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham, is inviting papers for the sixth annual conference, to be held at the Geffrye Museum on Friday 28... News Job Opportunity Military museums' First World War interactives collaboration AMOT museums collaborating to create First World War interactives News Job Opportunity Arts Award resources for ‘Discover and Explore’ from Trinity College London Trinity College, the assessing organisation for Arts Award, are delighted to see an increasing number of museums and heritage organisations offering Arts Award. New resources are available to support... News Job Opportunity The Eridge Trust – small grants to museums & galleries The Eridge Trust is a charitable trust whose overriding aim is to stimulate young people's enjoyment of art and kindle enthusiasms which we hope will enrich the rest of their lives. The Trust... News Job Opportunity Accessible Interpretation: SMOG testing and Access Advisory Groups On Monday 2nd September, the Kent & Medway Museum Development Programme ran a training day looking at ‘Accessible Interpretation’, kindly hosted by the Powell-Cotton Museum. ... News Job Opportunity Reminiscence Evaluation Toolkit Since April 2012, Oxford ASPIRE has worked with Banbury Museum as a Delivery Partner on ‘Extending the Reach’, a three year project to expand their existing reminiscence programme across... News Job Opportunity 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... News Job Opportunity Join the Family Arts Festival This autumn hundreds of arts organisations across the UK will present events in the very first Family Arts Festival which aims to help introduce more families discover the richness and value of the... News Job Opportunity Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education – Nominations now Open Do you know someone doing excellent work in gallery education and learning? Engage and the Marsh Christian Trust are delighted to announce the Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education 2013,... News Job Opportunity £300,000 Fund available to Regional Museums The John Ellerman Foundation has created a £300,000 fund for regional museums and galleries with a focus on visual and decorative arts, and social and natural history collections. The aim of... News Job Opportunity New Arts Council England funding streams Arts Council England has announced that applications are now open for four funding streams, likely to be worth more than £15m. The funding is intended for cultural organisations, libraries and... News Job Opportunity Google offers free products and advertising for UK charities Google has launched a new initiative to provide nonprofit organisations in the UK with free products, including up to £6,600 a month in advertising credit and free access to Google Apps.... News Job Opportunity Still time to take part in ‘Hidden Treasures’ Collections Trust and The Independent newspaper have partnered for a second year to run Hidden Treasures, a national initiative to celebrate collections in UK museums and archives. Details of... News Job Opportunity Social Media Seminar in SEWS As our work and interactions with users are becoming increasingly digital, we want to help museums understand and make the most of these emerging technologies and to consider how they might affect... News Job Opportunity ACE Strategic Touring Programme The Arts Council funded Strategic touring programme is seeking applications from museums. The aim of the programme is for people across England having improved access to great art visiting their... News Job Opportunity Association of Independent Museums (AIM) New Success Guides – first batch uploaded As part of AIM’s Resilience programme, the first batch of new practical guidance papers has been uploaded onto AIM’s website. The Success Guides take the place of FOCUS papers, and... 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