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Creative Employment Programme seeks applications from East Midlands Museums
This £15 million Arts Council England fund, managed by Creative & Cultural Skills, can support Museums with the costs of creating apprenticeships and paid internships. The fund has already helped over 700 arts and cultural organisations create nearly 2000 jobs for...
Oakham Castle celebrates successful £2 million HLF bid
One of the most popular tourist attractions in the East Midlands is celebrating after being successful in applying for a £2 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Oakham Castle has been awarded the money that will be used to carry out extensive...
New Museum Association Representative for the East Midlands
Simon Brown, Artefact Loans Officer at Nottingham City Museums and Galleries is delighted to have been asked to be the new Museums Association Representative for the East Midlands. Simon is here to act as a link between the Museums Association (MA) and its members...
Appointment of a Chair of the Museum Accreditation Committee
The Museum Accreditation Committee are looking to appoint a Chair who can bring recent and extensive experience of museum management at a senior level and a broad understanding of the role and purpose of museums. Appointment to this honorary post is initially for...
Pearls and wisdom – the Arts Council vision for the future of the Designation Scheme
Arts Council England has published Pearls and wisdom - our vision for future of the Designation Scheme for collections of national significance. Pearls and wisdom will provide the basis for the continuing success of the Scheme, and focus attention on the existing...
Artists in Museums: Exciting new poetry anthologies now online
Poetry Anthologies from the Locks, Bells & Peeling Wallpaper poetry workshop series are now available to view online. They are the creative outcome of expresseum poetics’ 2013 Write Here residency, where local writers joined Mark Goodwin on poetic 'expeditions' to...
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