TikTok highlights Leeds museum’s online content
The Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds Dock has been applauded by TikTok for its online content. The social media giant has shared it…
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How to maximise on-site fundraising
There are lots of ways to create fundraising opportunities on your website. Splitpixel’s Lauren James provides a rundown of the…
Accessible content matters
While most people are aware of the importance of an accessible website, not everyone knows how to do it. Substrakt’s Kathryn Mas…
The future of heritage in England
In light of a complex funding landscape facing England’s heritage sector, Cause4’s Michelle Wright and Annie Jarvis explore the…
Calls for unified digital platform for cultural collections
The Towards a National Collection (TaNC) research programme is urging the UK’s cultural heritage sector to collaborate on buildi…
Yorkshire business board appoints digital storytelling boss
JESSICA WRIGHT is among 13 local business leaders appointed to York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority’s new Business Board….
Arts venue left unable to take payments after Worldpay ‘error’
One of the UK’s largest multi-venue arts centres was left without any means to take payments for tickets after global banking comp…
Libraries should capitalise on appeal as community hubs, report recommends
Promoting libraries as social spaces could help overcome access barriers, a new report finds. Carried out on behalf of the Departm…
Call for central AI infrastructure to help culture sector ‘monetise content’
Arts Council England and UK government should work together to develop centralised artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure to…
Millennium Centre launches digital-first performance venue
Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) has unveiled plans for a digital-first performance venue as well as facilities for production, rehea…
Southampton art gallery secures funding to digitise collection
A gallery in Southampton has received National Lottery funding towards the digitisation of its art collection. The local authority…
Dinenage highlights AI legislation ‘concerns’
The chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Caroline Dinenage has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, raising…
Want to be accessible and inclusive? Start with your culture
It’s more important than ever, says Lauren James, head of content and web projects at Splitpixel, for the arts to be accessible…
National Youth Theatre and Microsoft team up on AI workshops
The National Youth Theatre (NYT) is partnering with Microsoft to offer a national programme of free workshops to help young people…
Digital modelling centre for heritage sector to launch
A new £1m digital modelling and analysis centre for the conservation and heritage science sector will open next year, it has…
BBC arts boss defends commitment to cultural programming
BBC’s Head of Arts and Classical Music TV, Suzy Klein, has countered suggestions that the broadcaster is not supporting…
Place-based partnerships: Delivering more together
Fiona Morris explores the wide-ranging benefits of arts organisations building place-based partnerships.
Launch of Museum Data Service ‘a major milestone’ for culture sector
A digital platform that will bring together more than 100 million object records from 1,750 accredited museums and other collectio…
Digital arts projects in Northern Ireland receive over £75k
Eight artists from Northern Ireland will share £75,835 of funding toward the creation of art projects using digital tec…
User-centred thinking: Bridging the gap between assumption and truth
Anyone involved in marketing, or creating websites or digital products will know the phrase ‘You are not your customer&rsquo…
Illuminate audience data reporting suspended for a further year
Arts Council England (ACE) says it wants to make improvements to the Illuminate software platform to make it 'straightforward&…
Big tech firms told to end ‘unlawful’ use of creators’ content
A coalition of trade associations and unions representing creatives has written to big tech firms telling them to end the "un…
IT outage hits arts and culture sector
Arts and culture organisations among industries worldwide affected by major IT outage.
Best practice in digital accessibility
The Space has convened an Accessibility Working Group to support the sector to work in more inclusive and accessible ways. One of…
