Making the case – independents and levelling up

Valuable feedback from our Membership Insight Group supported AIM’s response to a recent DCMS Select Committee inquiry on Levelling Up. “I believe the real s…

From collections to characters

Leicester Transport Heritage Trust Personas Project The Trust have been working with AIM member Documentary Media Centre to develop a new project with the support of a young…

New partnership with National Army Museum announced

AIM and the National Army Museum (NAM) are delighted to announce a new partnership that will provide AIM membership to over 100 Regimental and Corps museums.  …

Nominations open for the Family Friendly Museum Award 2022

Which museum is families’ favourite in the UK? It’s time to decide! Kids in Museums launches the Family Friendly Museum Award 2022 and publishes an updated Kids in Museums Manifesto.…

DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund launch new round of funding

£4 million of new funding will improve displays, protect collections and make exhibitions more accessible Fund has provided more than £48 million to over 400 projects over the past…

Help shape the future of the Heritage Education Trust

The Heritage Education Trust (HET), is seeking to understand how it might support heritage organisations and individual practitioners to continue to provide high quality education provision. This i…

65% of MEND funds awarded to AIM Members

Galleries, museums, libraries and cultural venues across the country are to …

Update from the cyber security centre

Following Russia’s further violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, the National Cyber Security Centre h…

Supply chain challenges – a supplier’s perspective

We spoke to supplier member Roelofs and Rubens to get their take on the supply chain challenges facing many. In business for about 15 years, Piet and Monty are a husband-and…

Museum Profile – Museum of Youth Culture

Museum of Youth Culture is a non-profit emerging museum dedicated to the scenes, styles and sounds forged by young people over the last 100 years. Currently based on Shaftesbury Avenue in London’…

How museums can be catalysts for climate action

COP26 dominated the news in late 2021, but how can the interest it created be harnessed to move us farther and faster to act on climate change? Rodney Harrison, Colin Sterling and Henry McG…

A time to look ahead

I don’t really do new year’s resolutions, but the new year is a good excuse to start a new notebook. It is naturally a time to look ahead and imagine how the future will…