Today, @lisanandy's announcement of @DCMS' £20 million Museum Renewal Fund is a significant & welcome step for the museum sector. It addresses the urgent financial challenges that many civic museums have been experiencing, especially those reliant on local authority funding.

People across the nation are set to gain more access to culture where they live with a major funding package announced by Culture Secretary @lisanandy today. This includes financial support for arts venues, museums, libraries, and heritage https://t.co/DNWihBOTSK

🎊⚱️Happy 10th birthday to the @V_and_A Wedgwood Collection⚱️🎊 This week marks one decade since this historic collection of 175,000 items was saved for the nation following a major fundraising campaign led by Art Fund. Find out more in The Guardian👇 https://t.co/gqDogOYRbO

Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025 is now open for applications! UK museums & galleries, this is your chance to win £120,000 and national recognition for your work. If your museum is engaging communities & welcoming new audiences, apply: https://t.co/1CqabYC5aF #MOTY2025

Art Fund @ArtFund supports curators and museum professionals to develop their curatorial practice. Programme coordinator Joe Jefford has been talking to grant recipient Kaitlene Koranteng https://t.co/kk6up66jOo

We've partnered with @culturecommons on an open policy development programme, "The Future of Cultural Devolution in the UK." The findings launched today will support policymakers as they help shape the future of cultural policy. Find out more:

Art Fund today announced a total of £1 million in funding to support local museums and galleries. - FAD Magazine ⁦@artfund⁩

🎉 We’re thrilled to have been awarded a £40,000 Reimagine grant from @artfund! It will help us strengthen partnerships and explore new ways to engage with our communities. Find out how we will spend the grant on our Towards New Ecologies project: https://t.co/6kEroZIx6A

🎉 Great News! We’re been awarded a Reimagine grant from @artfund! This funding will help us strengthen partnerships with schools and colleges across Manchester and explore new ways to make our collection accessible. Find out more about the Reimagine programme:

This huge hoard of over 2500 silver pennies will help unearth new stories from the time of the Norman Conquest🔎 We're thrilled to have helped @SomersetMuseum acquire it for their collection. See it on display at the @britishmuseum next month before it heads to home Somerset🪙

At the @britishmuseum this morning for the launch of the #ChewValleyHoard - one of the most significant treasure finds from British history now acquired by @SWHeritageTrust. Great to hear from Arts Minister, @RhonddaBryant on the importance of preserving our cultural heritage🪙

Local museums are places of inspiration, education and civic pride but are increasingly under threat… Letter @thetimes from English Civic Museums Network. Print version

News | Chancellor asked to provide £20m emergency funding for civic museums – some local institutions are under imminent threat of closure, warns English Civic Museums Network Read: https://t.co/Y6JinZy12z #AutumnBudget

Eight UK museums and galleries including @NatGalleriesSco selected to receive part of £1mill funding from @artfund and @nesta_uk which will develop and deliver a new programme, ‘Mini Wonders’, for families with young children. https://t.co/XlT5P6CjVV

#ArtHistoryNow https://t.co/PJPvXAPteO… @Jkwaldman

"Museums want to play a part in regeneration, well-being, early years provision, and opportunities for all." @Jkwaldman, director of Art Fund, is speaking on a panel with @CraftsCouncilUK and @Heritage_NGOs at #LabourConference about how culture drives regeneration in the UK.

Our director, @Jkwaldman, is about to speak on the panel “Learning from Success - Culture and Creativity Driving Change” exploring the regenerative impact of creativity in place-based approaches to driving socio-economic change #LabourConference

📍 Happening now in the Cultural and Creative Industries Pavilion: our panel on Regeneration & Placemaking, with some incredible representation from our sector, including Lizzie Glithero-West from @Heritage_NGOs, Jenny Waldman from @artfund and Natalie Melton from

The fabulous young musicians of ⁦@iam_inHarmony⁩ ⁦@liverpoolphil⁩ performing ⁦@WeAreCreativeUK⁩ pavilion #labourconference2024 to delegates and Minister ⁦@RhonddaBryant⁩

Heading to @WeAreCreativeUK pavilion at #LabourConference . Looking forward to speaking about how museums, arts and creativity can help local places thrive With @Heritage_NGOs @heritage_lizzie @CraftsCouncilUK @artfund If you’re at the conference do come along