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26 Jul 2012
HLF invests £15.9m in four UK museum development projects
Image: London's new Design Museum will open in 2015
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced investment totalling £15.9m towards four major museum redevelopment schemes - three in London and another in Dorset.
A £4.65m grant - the largest of the four - has been handed to the Design Museum
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26 Jul 2012
Shannon Heritage named operator of Malahide Castle and Gardens
Image: Malahide Castle is undergoing a revamp
Shannon Heritage has been appointed to operate Malahide Castle and Gardens in County Dublin, Ireland, in the company's first move outside the Shannon region.
It follows an agreement between the operator and Malahide Castle and Gardens - formed by
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25 Jul 2012
California science centre to open Indiana Jones archaeology experience
Image: Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana
Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology - a new themed experience - is to open at the Discovery Science Center (DSC) in Santa Ana, California, US on 12 October.
The National Geographic Society is presenting the new multimedia and interactive
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25 Jul 2012
UNESCO announces latest additions to World Heritage List
Image: Rio de Janeiro has been inscribed by UNESCO
A number of international cultural attractions feature among 26 new additions to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) World Heritage List.
It follows the World Heritage Committee's latest session held
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25 Jul 2012
Liverpool added to UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger
Image: Liverpool boasts a number of historic docks
Liverpool has joined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) List of World Heritage in Danger due to a proposed regeneration project.
Last year, the organisation expressed concerns about the potential
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25 Jul 2012
Australia to draw up new strategy for managing heritage assets
Image: The strategy will help guide the future management of Australia's heritage assets
The Australian Government has announced its intention to draw up a new framework for the present and future management and promotion of the country's cultural heritage assets.
A public consultation has
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25 Jul 2012
NZHPT proposes Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre heritage recognition
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) has proposed that the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre on the edge of Lake Waikaremoana receives Category 1 heritage registration.
Formerly called Urewera National Park Visitor Centre, the facility was designed in the early 1970s by John Scott - one of the country's foremost Maori architects who died in 1992.
However, the Department of Conservation-owned building was forced
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25 Jul 2012
Dominic Jones appointed park director of Oakwood Theme Park
Image: Oakwood's new park director Dominic Jones
Welshman Dominic Jones has been appointed as the new park director of Oakwood Theme Park - the visitor attraction located across 80 acres (32 hectares) of Pembrokeshire countryside.
The 34-year-old has taken up the role after a career that has
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25 Jul 2012
Sole bid to operate Felixstowe's Spa Pavilion withdrawn
Spa Pavilion Associates, the group behind the only bid to take on the management of an arts venue in Felixstowe, has withdrawn its proposals ahead of a council meeting.
Suffolk Coastal District Council had been due to debate the sole submission on 24 July, but had already indicated it would be rejected after failing to present a "realistic case".
The local authority, which currently invests more than £250,000 a
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24 Jul 2012
Committee urges reduction in centralised gambling regulation
Image: The report urges less central regulation
A report by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee has called for the reduction in centralised gambling regulation, with more power to be handed to local authorities.
It follows an examination of the Gambling Act 2005, which the
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24 Jul 2012
NASA to open up Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center
Image: Visitors will be taken into Firing Room 4
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to enable visitors to access Kennedy Space Center's Launch Control Center for the first time in more than 30 years.
Guests at the attraction in Florida, US, will be able to see inside
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24 Jul 2012
Irish government announces new National City of Culture Initiative
Limerick has been confirmed as Ireland's first National City of Culture in 2014 as part of a new programme launched by minister for arts, heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan.
Under the National City of Culture Initiative, a location is to be selected every two years and deliver a programme of cultural events, while also providing longer-term benefits.
It is hoped the programme will bring together artists,
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24 Jul 2012
Belfast theatre and Hepworth Wakefield shortlisted for RIBA prize
Image: Hepworth Wakefield has been shortlisted
Belfast's £18.1m Lyric Theatre and West Yorkshire's £35m Hepworth Wakefield gallery have been named among six UK buildings shortlisted for the 2012 RIBA Stirling Prize.
Dublin, Ireland-based O'Donnell + Tuomey were responsible for the "crafted and
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24 Jul 2012
Mars donation for National Museum of American History exhibition
Image: The new exhibition is to open in 2015
Mars, Incorporated has contributed US$5m (EUR4.1m, £3.2m) towards the new American Enterprise exhibition at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC, US.
The 8,000sq ft (743sq m) experience will be housed in the renamed Mars Hall of
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