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Museum Consortium Launches Second Phase of Media Matters |
 A consortium of curators, conservators, registrars, legal advisors, and media technical managers from New Art Trust, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Tate has launched the second phase of Media Matters, an innovative website designed to provide international guidelines for the care of time-based media works of art (e.g. video, slide, film, audio, and computer-based installations).
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New Research Funding Available |
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 The Science and Heritage Programme has issued a new call for proposals for multidisciplinary reasearch under the following themes:
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Coordinator, National Heritage Science Strategy |
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English Heritage is advertising for the post of Coordinator for the UK National Heritage Science Strategy. The aim of the Strategy, as set out in a report to the House of Lords, is to assess the sector’s use of science in understanding and preserving the UK’s heritage, to identify gaps and opportunities, and to make recommendations about priorities in responding to them.
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Major Restoration Project for Scotland |
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 Historic Scotland has announced it is to go ahead with a £12 million project to return the royal lodgings at Stirling Castle to their Renaissance magnificence. Chris Watkins, head of Historic Scotland’s major projects team, said: “The conservation and presentation of James V’s magnificent Renaissance palace is the most ambitious phase of Historic Scotland’s project at Stirling Castle. “It will mark the culmination of many years of research and skilled conservation and craft work that have helped reinstate the splendour that the Stewart monarchs gave to Stirling.
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Using Collections for Research |
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A consortium including the Collections Trust and four major UK universities has been awarded funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council to develop a series of training resources aimed at improving the use of collections for research. The programme, titled the Digital Heritage Research Training Initiative, will run between July 2008 and March 2010.
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Axum Obelisk to rise again |
 The Axum Obelisk has had a long and eventful life. Carved and erected out of 24 metres of granite in Ethiopia some 1600 years ago, it was deliberately toppled over at some point in history, whereupon it broke into three pieces. These were looted by Mussolini in 1937 and re-erected in Rome, where the obelisk stood until 2003. Work began to return it to its original home in Axum shortly after it was struck by lightning. But after fifty years of diplomatic wrangling to persuade the Italians to release it, the restoration of the obelisk faced innumerable practical challenges.
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