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Funding sought for £12m Flax Mill revamp
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 18 Mar 2013
An £11.6m funding application to regenerate Shrewsbury’s eighteenth-century Flax
Mill Maltings for public and commercial use will be submitted to the Heritage
Lottery Fund (HLF) by the end of March.
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Details of Shangri-La, The Shard revealed
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 18 Mar 2013
Details of the UK's first Shangri-La - to occupy levels 34 to 52 of The Shard -
have been revealed ahead of its opening this summer.
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£4m plans for Edinburgh’s Saughton Park
BY Aoife Dowling | 15 Mar 2013
A multi-million-pound project to transform Saughton Park and Gardens into one of Edinburgh’s premier
parks has entered the next stage.
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Birmingham lands funding to display Staffordshire Hoard
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 15 Mar 2013
The Heritage Lottery Fund has this week awarded £704,500 for the permanent
display of the largest and most valuable Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered at
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
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Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre secures development funding
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 13 Mar 2013
The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales has secured a development grant to
build on its vision to become a world-class centre for learning in the lead up
to the 2014 centenary of the poet's birth.
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Will.i.am launches education scheme at Science Museum
BY Tom Walker | 12 Mar 2013
A new scheme to engage disadvantaged youth with science and technology has been
launched by international pop star will.i.am, in collaboration with The Prince’s
Trust, at the Science Museum in London.
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Australia's Art Gallery of New South Wales to double in size
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 12 Mar 2013
Australia's Art Gallery of New South Wales has revealed it plans to double in
size and transform itself into an art museum for the "Asian century", in time
for the 150th anniversary of its founding in 2021.
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ALVA releases list of most visited UK attractions for 2012
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 12 Mar 2013
Liverpool and Scotland attractions have experienced noticeable increases in
popularity according to figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor
Attractions (ALVA) detailing the most popular UK attractions in 2012.
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Spanish museums respond to government spending cuts
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 11 Mar 2013
Spain’s museums are raising entry prices, sending works abroad, seeking private
donations and opening longer to offset cuts of their state funding by up to one
third.
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Warner Bros. donates props to Smithsonian
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 11 Mar 2013
Warner Bros. has donated more than 30 artefacts to Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian
National Museum of American History, including props from Batman & Robin and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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LA museums could merge to create major art institution
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 11 Mar 2013
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has submitted a proposal to take
over the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) - also in LA - which has recently
suffered financial troubles.
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US civil and human rights museum secures funding
BY Jessica Tasman-Jones | 08 Mar 2013
Financing to fund the first phase of the National Center for Civil and Human
Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, US, has been secured, with construction to start
this month.
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Holovis
Holovis is a privately owned company
established in 2004 by CEO Stuart
Hetherington. [more...] |
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Red Raion
Founded in 2014, Red Raion is the CGI studio for media-based attractions. [more...] |
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IDEATTACK
IDEATTACK is a full-service planning and
design company with headquarters in
Los Angeles. [more...] |
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Taylor Made Designs
Taylor Made Designs (TMD) has been supplying the Attractions, Holiday Park, Zoos and Theme Park mark [more...] |
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