Culture Secretary Sajid Javid announced today, while visiting the Canal & River Trust’s Gloucester Waterways Museum that 25 museums across the length and breadth of England will benefit from grants worth £3 million. Only five of these institutions are Art Museums...
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Government Sponsored Museums Reveal 2 Million More Visits Than Previous Year
Latest statistics for Government-sponsored museums published last week reveal 49 million visits were made to the 16 museums and galleries directly funded by the DCMS last year, a four per cent increase on 2012/13 (47 million) and a record high since the first data was...
Creative Industries Federation Welcomes Warwick Commission On Future Cultural Value
The Creative Industries Federation today welcomed the Warwick Commission’s report as an important step in uniting the UK’s arts, creative industries and cultural education.Federation Founder and Chair Sir John Sorrell said: "It is time, indeed it is long...
Mandergate: Barbara Hepworth Bronze Removed From Display At Midlands Shopping Centre
A cast bronze sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, removed from the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton last June is creating controversy. The work of art has been located in the centre since it opened in 1968. It is one of six castings of this important 1964 work of...
Museums And Galleries Benefit From Surge In Overseas Tourist Visits
The DCMS have announced figures for the number of visits by overseas tourists to the UK, with an all time high recorded for the six months to June. Figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed there were 16.4 million inbound visits to Britain from January...
Emin, Hirst and Gormley Decorate Unique Wine Bottle For Turner Contemporary Auction
The largest bottle ever produced of English sparkling wine by the award winning Kent-based winery Chapel Down, has been signed by four leading contemporary British artists and will be sold at Christie’s ‘Out of the Ordinary’ auction on 3 September...
Meet Sajid Javid MP Britain’s New Culture Secretary
Prime minister David Cameron has wasted no time in announcing the appointment of Sajid Javid MP as Culture Secretary. He is to replace Maria Miller effective immediately, following her resignation this morning, after a long and drawn out expense scandal.Javid is the...
British Museum And Tate Top List Of Worlds Most Popular Institutions
Figures released in an annual survey have placed the British Museum as the second most popular gallery in the world. The Louvre has again topped the roll of the best-attended art museums. The French institution had 500,000 fewer visitors last year but still...
UK Creative Industries Out Perform Financial Services In £71.4bn Bumper Year
This week official statistics were published by the DCMS revealing that the UK’s creative industries are now worth £71.4 billion per year to the UK economy. This was a growth of almost 10% in 2012, outperforming all other sectors of UK industry and...
