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18 Mar 2013
Preston Park Museum and Ground officially re-launched
Preston Park Museum and Grounds has hosted an animated 3D film projected on its façade to celebrate its official re-launch following a £7m revamp. Hundreds turned up to view the night time animation, entitled Lustre, which centred around the hall and its hidden secrets. The restored museum now has a complete
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18 Mar 2013
Heritage Lottery Fund supports Aston Martin centenary
Heritage Lottery Funding has been awarded to the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust to showcase the history of luxury car brand Aston Martin, which celebrates its centenary this year. The £71,000 grant allows the display of original build records, photographs, design and engineering drawings, company accounts
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18 Mar 2013
Danish architects BIG land contract to redesign Smithsonian Campus
Danish design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has been announced as the winning team to lead the first phase of the Smithsonian Campus Master Plan, in a US$2.4m (1.85m euro, £1.59m) contract. At 700,000sq ft (65,032sq m) the campus in Washington D.C., US is the world's largest museum and research complex and
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18 Mar 2013
Second annual English Tourism Week launches
The second annual English Tourism Week has been launched by tourism minister Hugh Robertson on the Thames, with a view to promote the value of the £97bn industry at the national and local level. Robertson joined VisitEngland chairwoman Lady Cobham, London & Partners chairwoman Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas and tourism businesses aboard the Dixie Queen Paddle Steamer for the launch. English Tourism Week runs from 16 to 24 March
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18 Mar 2013
Funding sought for £12m Flax Mill revamp
An £11.6m funding application to regenerate Shrewsbury’s eighteenth-century Flax Mill Maltings for public and commercial use will be submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) by the end of March. The site comprises seven listed buildings and includes the Main Mill, which was built in 1797 and was the world’s
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18 Mar 2013
UK tourism spend up by £9bn in 2012
Tourism expenditure in the UK increased by £9bn during 20112 – a 6.9 per cent jump from £125bn to £134bn. According to the Tourism Alliance's 2013 Tourism Statistics Review, the £9bn increase was sufficient to generate 180,000 new jobs for the UK economy - over one third of all additional jobs generated in
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18 Mar 2013
Details of Shangri-La, The Shard revealed
Details of the UK's first Shangri-La - to occupy levels 34 to 52 of The Shard - have been revealed ahead of its opening this summer. The five-star 202-room property will be London's first elevated luxury hotel and promises panoramic views, including
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15 Mar 2013
£4m plans for Edinburgh’s Saughton Park
A multi-million-pound project to transform Saughton Park and Gardens into one of Edinburgh’s premier parks has entered the next stage after submitting a £4m funding bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF). The City of Edinburgh Council, which
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15 Mar 2013
Exhibit on the museum experience opens in New York
A new interdisciplinary exhibition at New York's Museum of Design examines new design approaches in the post-millennial museum. After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 opened on 12 March and aims to get audiences reconsidering traditional notions of the structure and roles of museums through installations, digital
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15 Mar 2013
Dudley Council approves £10.1m revamp of Castle Hill
Dudley Council has approved plans for three attractions at Castle Hill submitted for planning permission in January. The £10.1m plans for the Dudley Zoological Gardens, the Black Country Living Museum and the Dudley Canal Trust include a shared arrival point for visitors, a new entrance for each attraction and
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15 Mar 2013
Birmingham lands funding to display Staffordshire Hoard
The Heritage Lottery Fund has this week awarded £704,500 for the permanent display of the largest and most valuable Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. The 3,500-piece Staffordshire Hoard, which includes 7th-century gold and silver metalwork, has been on temporary display
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14 Mar 2013
Report reveals economic benefits of art funding
A new report released by the Local Government Association (LGA) reveals for every pound spent by councils on the arts, their investment is matched four-fold by grant aid and partnerships, and this funding is needed to stimulate local economies. ‘Driving growth through local government investment in the arts' was released on 7 March at the advocacy group’s annual Culture, Tourism and Sport Conference. The report warns it
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14 Mar 2013
Scottish abbey plans £2m visitor centre
Paisley Abbey has submitted plans to Refrewshire Council for the £2m reconstruction of its fourth cloister, to house a visitor centre, café, gift shop and function space. Architects Simpson & Brown have submitted the plans, received 28 February, and state the extension will complement the existing 12th-century
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14 Mar 2013
Council funding cuts on arts beginning to bite
Budgets across the UK are delivering harsh cuts to arts groups with Westminster council set to cut funding by 100 per cent, while Newcastle council will deliver a 50 per cent cut in funding. Westminster City Council will reduce its arts budget from £350,000 to £192,00 in 2013-14 and cut it completely by 2014-15
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