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05 Apr 2012
ACE confirms finalised Renaissance awards
Arts Council England (ACE) has announced details of the final awards to its Renaissance major partner museums, which will see more than £62m invested over the coming three years.
Earlier this year, the organisation named the 16 successful applicants that are to receive support between 2012-13 and 2014-15
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05 Apr 2012
Colwyn Bay pier funding bid rejected
Conwy County Borough Council's plans for the restoration of the Grade II-listed Victoria Pier in Colwyn Bay have been dealt a blow after a funding bid worth £4.9m was rejected.
After considering the local authority's application for financial support towards the project, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) said
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05 Apr 2012
£1.5m digital investment for Scottish arts
Creative Scotland has announced a new investment programme worth £1.5m to support the digital development of businesses within the country's cultural sector.
The initiative - developed in partnership with NESTA, AmbITion Scotland and Sync - will react to the development needs of organisations that are already "digital natives".
Meanwhile, the programme will support capacity building around skills and
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04 Apr 2012
UK's new Harry Potter attraction opens
A new walking tour taking visitors behind the scenes of the Harry Potter movies has been unveiled by Warner Bros Entertainment at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire, UK.
Warner Bros Studio Tour London-The Making of Harry Potter comprises some of the most iconic sets from the film series,
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04 Apr 2012
New independent UK theatre survey launches
A new independent study exploring the influence of publicly-funded theatre on commercial theatre has been launched in a bid to gain a greater understanding of public arts investment.
Arts Council England (ACE) has teamed up with sector skills council Creative and Cultural Skills (CCS) and NESTA to commission the survey, with the findings due to be published this summer.
The research aims to track the careers of
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04 Apr 2012
£6m grant for Science Museum project
London's Science Museum has been awarded £6m by the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its plans for the creation of a new gallery exploring the history of communications technology.
Making Modern Communications will see the museum exhibit "unique objects" combined with human stories in order to chart the
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04 Apr 2012
Google unveils 'major' Art Project expansion
Internet giant Google has announced a "major" international expansion of the Art Project, after it entered into more than 150 new partnerships with institutions across 40 countries.
More than 30,000 objects are now available to view in high resolution, up from the 1,000 in the first version. Meanwhile,
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04 Apr 2012
ACE unveils National Archives partnership
Arts Council England (ACE) and the National Archives have entered into a new partnership that will see the two organisations work for the "collective benefit" of museums, libraries and archives.
The memorandum of understanding will lead to collaboration in a number of areas, including the sharing of
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04 Apr 2012
Technomedia nets Legoland waterpark contract
Florida, US-based audio-visual integration firm Technomedia Solutions has been appointed by Merlin Entertainments to work on the new Legoland-branded waterpark in Winter Haven.
The firm has been awarded the audio-visual systems design-build contract for the waterpark development, which will be located
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04 Apr 2012
Major revamp for Chrysler Museum of Art
Plans to undertake an "extensive" expansion and renovation of Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, US, have received the approval of the attraction's board of trustees.
The H&A Architects-designed project is to form part of a US$45m (£28.2m, EUR33.7m) capital programme currently in its "quiet phase"
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04 Apr 2012
Olympic rower to open SeaCity Museum
Double Olympic rowing gold medallist James Cracknell will officially launch the £15m SeaCity Museum next week (10 April) as part of Southampton's new Cultural Quarter.
The new attraction - housed within the city's former Grade II*-listed Magistrates' Court - has been designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
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04 Apr 2012
Life Online opens at National Media Museum
Life Online, a new permanent gallery dedicated to the social, technological and cultural impact of the internet, has been unveiled at the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford.
The gallery, which is seen as the first of its kind anywhere in the world, was opened by Vint Cerf and incorporates contributions
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03 Apr 2012
'Record' figures for Wales' national museums
Wales' seven national museums attracted a record 1.69 million visitors in 2011-12, which is the highest total amount reported since the introduction of free admission in April 2001.
The measure was implemented by the Welsh Government and Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales eight months before England and
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03 Apr 2012
ACE announces capital funding recipients
London's Southbank Centre has been confirmed as one of the 26 organisations across the country to receive funding through Arts Council England's (ACE) new capital programme.
The Southbank Centre has received £20m of the £114m being invested in the first round of the programme, which will go towards an
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