New Generation Patrons
David Gelles, ‘Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons’, The Washington Post, March 19 2014 Several hundred millennials mingled under the soaring atrium of the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue one recent frigid February night. Weaving around them were black-clad servers bearing silver trays piled high with doughnuts, while a pixieish D.J. spun Daft Punk […]
Ten Years & Ten Million Visitors
Australian Centre for the Moving Image CEO, Tony Sweeney, moving on.
Australian Museum Makeover
$7.2 million for transformation of Australian Museum in Sydney.
Technology on the Horizon
US technology and trends report for the museum sector now available online.
ABS Abandons Cultural Statistics
CAMD notes with concern that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced that it will cease funding the collection and analysis of social, cultural and sports statistics in order to reduce expenditure. The impact on research and publications will be as follows: the ABS Cultural and Leisure Statistics section is being disbanded and will […]
Australia’s biggest Wildlife Biobank
New facility to be developed at Melbourne Museum.
Australian Heritage Strategy – June 2014
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Nagoya Protocol – May 2014
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New Challenge for Kate Clark in Wales
News from the latest edition of Salon: Congratulations to our Fellow Kate Clark on her appointment as Chief Executive of Cadw, the Welsh Government’s historic environment service. Kate will take up the post in late summer, in succession to Marilyn Lewis, who will retire in August 2014. Originally from Australia, Kate studied Archaeology and Anthropology […]
Summer Visitor Figures
The following article was published in The Australian 16 May 2014: Michaela Boland ‘Summer proves just the ticket’ IT was the gamble that paid off. Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art triumphed at the turnstile over summer with its survey of Chinese conceptual artist Cai Guo Qiang, which closed at the weekend after having been seen […]