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Power of Place: Midlands Museum Awards. Nominations now OPEN!

Published Date: 18/08/2025

Museum Development Midlands is thrilled to open entries for the Power of Place: Midlands Museum Awards 2025 – a celebration of the creativity, innovation and impact of museums and heritage organisations across the Midlands. These awards recognise...

Conservation and Exhibition Grant Scheme
Published Date: 24/03/2025
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The Tru Vue Conservation and Exhibition Grant scheme supports small heritage institutions to care for their collections.

Apply Now - Sense of Place Programme
Published Date: 17/03/2025
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MDM is offering a small cohort of six museums the opportunity of a programme of support to develop and embed sense of place approaches to community engagement.

Access for Neurodiverse Visitors and Staff
Published Date: 11/03/2025
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How well equipped is the Museum sector to include neurodiverse visitors and staff and what support may be needed?

Art UK: Digital Skills Training for Collections programme
Published Date: 03/03/2025
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Art UK has received funding from Arts Council England to undertake a digital skills project and is seeking to recruit a cohort of 20 collections in England...

Are you Data Cautious, Data Curious or Data Confident?
Published Date: 12/02/2025
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Help shape our new Data Programme by telling us your current awareness, use, and experience of accessing a range of data resources and applications.

Art Fund Grant Funding
Published Date: 05/11/2024
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Art Fund has announced over £1 million awarded to museums.

Tender Opportunity: Green Narratives programme
Published Date: 04/11/2024
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Museum Development Midlands (MDM) is inviting quotes from consultants to develop and deliver a new Green Narratives programme in 2025 and 2026.

Sense of Place Programme Announced
Published Date: 05/08/2024
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Be inspired to connect your offer more closely to your local communities in new ways.

Arts Council England Relaunches Designation Scheme
Published Date: 22/07/2024
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Arts Council England has re-opened the Designation Scheme to highlight the quality of outstanding regional museums.

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