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Disney's Imagineering team is offering "one-of-a-kind" learning experiences with Imagineering in a Box – a free online programme offering lessons in theme park design and ... More

A proposed museum based on the site of New York's notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility has received key funding grants from corporate and national institutions, ... More

The St Louis Holocaust Museum in Missouri, US, has announced a new US$18m (€16.4m, £13.9m) project to deliver a state of the art facility that ... More

The Smithsonian Institute has announced a new partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) that will see the curation of a new gallery at ... More

Gus Casely-Hayford, the British curator, cultural historian, broadcaster and lecturer, has been named as the inaugural director of V&A East – the museum's new expansion ... More

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi is open to the public for the first time in its history, with interactive cultural ... More

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has unveiled plans to create two interconnected sites at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a brand-new museum at ... More

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has raised extreme concerns over reports that President Donald Trump’s formal budget plan for fiscal year 2018 will eliminate ... More

People who feel they have sufficient time for rest score twice as high on wellbeing scales, according to the results from a new survey from ... More

American architect Steven Holl has been honoured for creating urban environments that actively use daylight to boost quality of life, human health, wellbeing and performance. ... More

American chef, restauranteur, food activist and author Alice Waters has received the 2015 Alex Szekely Humanitarian Award. Deborah Szekely, owner of Rancho la Puerta, presented ... More

English Heritage and its university partners are currently on the hunt for three collaborative PhD studentships, with the three-year studies to commence in October 2014. ... More

Forty museums across England are to receive £4.6m worth of grants following an announcement made by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey. Museums across the country are ... More

Johnny Cash's boyhood home has been renovated as part of a US$3.2m (£2m, €2.5m) historical restoration programme in the Dyess Colony, Arkansas. Dyess was an ... More

George Lucas, the creator of cinematic movie greats such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, is a step closer to opening a cultural arts museum ... More

A new £4m initiative funded by the Arts and Heritage Research Council, aims to develop ways for digital technologies to help communities explore their culture ... More

Wellcome Collection in central London has unveiled a major £17.5m development project which will increase the attraction's available gallery space. Stirling Prize-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre ... More

An interactive blog set up by DCMS and hosted by Dr Claire Donovan seeks to stimulate discussion across the cultural sector on how to measure ... More

Edinburgh's new-look National Museum of Scotland has officially reopened to the public today (29 July), following the completion of a major £47.4m refurbishment programme. National ... More

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is to benefit from a US$700,000 (£443,000), three-year grant from the PNC Foundation, for the renovation of Playscape, an early ... More