Geraldine Kendall Adams

London

Staff Writer and Researcher at Museum Practice

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National museum security guards secure ‘life-changing’ pay rises after strike

1 week ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Security guards at several national museums in London have secured significant pay rises of between 13% and 23% after taking more than 50 days of strike action. Employed by the external security contractor Wilson James, workers at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum first went on strike last October in a dispute over low pay and working conditions. They were later joined by Wilson James colleagues at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Museum sector pays tribute following death of Geoff Palmer

1 week ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Tributes have been paid across the Scottish museum sector following the death of Geoff Palmer, the renowned scientist and human rights activist who chaired the Scottish Government’s Empire, Slavery and Scotland’s Museums project from 2020 to 2022. Palmer, who died at the age of 85 on 12 June, was a member of the Windrush generation, arriving in Scotland from Jamaica as a teenager in 1964.
Honours List: V&A deputy Tim Reeve among museum professionals recognised

1 week ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

The deputy director and chief operating officer of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), Tim Reeve, was among a number of museum, arts and heritage professionals to be recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours. Reeve, who led on the development of the new V&A East Storehouse in east London, received a CBE for services to museums.
Largest collection of filmed HIV/Aids testimonies opens to public

1 week ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

An exhibition has opened at The London Archives featuring the largest collection of filmed testimony in the UK from people affected by HIV and Aids. The exhibition is part of HIVstory, an outreach project by the National HIV Story Trust. The trust films, records and preserves the stories of those affected by the Aids pandemic. The exhibition will be on display at the London Archives in central London until Thursday 10 July.
Opposition to philanthropy is ‘imagined’, say climate campaigners

2 weeks ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Museums should adopt an ethical red line on sponsorship rather than focusing on “some imagined opposition to philanthropy”, the activist coalition Culture Unstained has said. The group, which represents a range of campaigners against fossil fuel money in the culture sector, has responded to a letter published in the Financial Times last week calling for an end to the “relentless negativity” around the use of corporate money to support the arts.
Museums must support diversity amid Trump attacks, says V&A East director

3 weeks ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Cultural institutions must have the “moral courage” to stand by their principles and back diversity and inclusion in the age of Trump, the director of London’s V&A East Museum has said. In a column in The Guardian, Gus Casely-Hayford said cultural institutions must “simply, continually, work to be ever more universal, inclusive and open”. “I would have thought that seeking to give value back to a greater number of the population is uncontroversial,” he said.
‘Relentless negativity’ around sponsorship must end, say national museums

3 weeks ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Several national museums in England have signed an open letter defending the use of corporate sponsorship in the culture sector. The British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), National Gallery and Science Museum Group all gave their backing to a letter this week calling for an end to the “relentless negativity” around private money in the arts.
Proposed changes to human remains law could have ‘unintended consequences’

3 weeks ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Archaeology sector bodies have called for cross-sector input to inform any potential changes to human remains law and policy in the UK. In a joint statement, eight archaeological organisations from across the UK said a “cross-sector consultative forum” should be established to enable a wide range of viewpoints to be heard on any proposed changes to human remains legislation and practice.
Plans underway to create spy museum in London’s Blitz tunnels

3 weeks ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

A new museum of military intelligence is to be created in a series of underground tunnels built to shelter Londoners during the Blitz. The Kingsway exchange tunnel complex, under High Holborn in the City of London, was constructed between 1940 and 1942 in order to protect people from aerial bombardment, but due to the changing nature of the war it was never used for its original purpose.
Use generative AI 'cautiously' in funding bids, ACE warns

3 weeks ago | museumsassociation.org | Geraldine Kendall Adams

Organisations applying for funding from Arts Council England (ACE) should use generative AI “cautiously”, the funding body has warned. The arts council published a statement this week outlining its position on the use of AI in writing funding bids and in processing, assessing and making decisions on applications.