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Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust completes catalogue of the papers of LTC Rolt and announces May 2024 conference in partnership with Keele University to mark the 50th anniversary …
Three museums have been awarded Re:Collections Grants totalling over £54,000. Funded from the Welsh Government Anti-Racist Wales Culture, Heritage, and Sport Fund, Re:Colle…
Applications to the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund open on 23 October. The funding…
Sotera is an Insurtech start-up that uses AI and a proprietary risk algorithm to evaluate the risk of collections to improve how they are insured. The company was founded by two former archaeologis…
Making a difference with conservation grants
10/08/2023 in Collections
The Pilgrim Trust was delighted to announce its renewed partnership with AIM earlier this year, when we awarded £414,000 towards its popular grant scheme for Collections Care Audits and Re…
It’s been ten years since Welsh Government published its last collections significance assessment toolkit, ‘Why do we have it? A Significance Process and Template’, and the world is n…
Latest AIM Pilgrim Trust grant awards
01/08/2023 in Collections
We were thrilled to receive 45 applications in the AIM Pilgrim Trust spring grant round. The panel had some tough decisions to make, with 17 applications to the audit scheme, 15 for collections ca…
The TWA Digitisation Grant is back for 2023
13/06/2023 in Collections, Finance
2023 marks the TWA Digitisation Grant’s SIXTH successful year! In that time, it has supported over 110 organisations, offering a total of £108,000 in funding. Last year 31 separate projects were…
National Archives grant programme
18/05/2023 in Collections, Finance
The National Archives has launched its grant funding programmes for the archives sector, for 2023 – 2024. The National Archives is the sector leadership body for arc…
Exhibition loans from Ben Uri
12/04/2023 in Awareness & Networks, Collections
Ben Uri’s unique and diverse collection is made up of some 900 works by 390 artists – of whom 70% are immigrant and 29% are women – originating from 45 different countries of birth. …
Brighter Day grants awarded
22/03/2023 in Collections
Round two of the Brighter Day grants, gratefully supported by the Art Scholars Trust, have been awarded to nine AIM members. The grant was created to ensure museums at ris…
Conservation funding update
16/03/2023 in Collections, Finance
The Pilgrim Trust Collections Care and Conservation Grants have historically been open to AIM members from small to medium organisations, those with a footfall of 50,000 or less. Part of the elig…