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Upcoming Bristol workshop, plus themes for the next year including 'Working with China', 'Working with India', 'Working with South East Europe & the Balkans' and 'Working with the Middle East'. »more

The new National Museums Collection Centre has been opened in Edinburgh by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop. »more

Today is the launch of I Love Museums, a new campaign led by the NMDC to demonstrate the depth of support for UK museums by empowering the public to share why museums are important to them. »more

New research shows the importance of museums to tourism in the country. »more

The Ferens Art Gallery will host the Turner Prize as part of the 2017 City of Culture. »more

Stage 2 of the Working Internationally Regional Project to build on the success of the pilot year. »more

Museum consortiums covering areas around Derby, Nottingham, Hull and North Lincolnshire, Sheffield, Cornwall and Coventry have joined NMDC. »more

NMDC has joined a UK-wide group of museum funding, membership and development bodies in releasing a joint statement today saying that they will not seek to work with museums whose governing bodies choose to sell objects from their collections in a manner that contravenes the long-established Accreditation Standard and Museum Association Code of Ethics. »more

BBC4 has announced a new museum-based quiz show fronted by Griff Rhys Jones. Each episode will be based at a different museum, with confirmed locations including the Ashmolean, Foundling, World Museum, Wallace Collection, Fitzwilliam, Museum of London, National Museum Cardiff and National Maritime Museum. »more

DCMS has announced that 49 million visits were made to the 16 museums and galleries directly sponsored by the department last year. This is a 4% increase on the 47 million visitors during 2012/13 and the highest figure since records began in 2002. »more