National Railway Museum news

A team led by Feilden Fowles has won the National Railway Museum 's competition to design its new Central Hall with an elegant timber-frame rotunda. ... More

Five proposals have been shortlisted for the design of the National Railway Museum 's Central Hall in York, UK, which is scheduled to open in ... More

Funding support for York's National Railway Museum, Coventry's 2021 UK City of Culture programme and infrastructure and maintenance work at local and regional museums across ... More

Ian Blatchford, director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, has been given a knighthood for services to cultural education. With a portfolio that ... More

The National Railway Museum in York has said its £50m (US$67.6m, €56.7m) masterplan still is still being finalised, following local reports revealing new details about ... More

The BBC is partnering with a number of UK institutions and charities to launch a year-long season of science and technology programming under the broadcaster's ... More

New data from the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), has showed a year-on-year decline in state-sponsored museum visits, with a significant decline ... More

Architecture studio WilkinsonEyre have been selected to develop a brand new railway museum in Leicester, UK, after a period of public consultation. The new museum ... More

The flagship Scottish Design Galleries within the Kengo Kuma’s new Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum of Design in Dundee will be designed by ZMMA, an ... More

The Flying Scotsman – one of the world’s most famous locomotives – is about to return to the rails after more than a decade of ... More

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a share of £98m (US152.2m, €136.9m) to nine heritage sites across the UK in the latest round of ... More

Manchester’s National Football Museum, Titanic Belfast and the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth are among this year’s nominees for European Museum of the Year. Whittled ... More

Dame Mary Archer has been appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron to head the Science Museum Group. The body represents a number of sites - ... More

Museums in three northern cities that faced the threat of closure are safe despite recent cuts, according to the culture minister. The Department for Culture, ... More

Museums in three northern cities that faced the threat of closure are safe despite recent cuts, according to the culture minister. The Department for Culture, ... More

Staff cuts, relocating archives and spending more on exhibitions, galleries and events are among the plans to safeguard the future of Bradford's National Media Museum. ... More

A number of UK attractions recorded increases in visitor numbers during 2011, according to figures from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA). Announcing its ... More

Alton Towers, the Eden Project and Edinburgh Castle have been named among the winners at this year's British Travel Awards (BTA), which were revealed in ... More

York's National Railway Museum (NRM) has confirmed that it has been forced to abandon its plans for a £21m redevelopment programme after failing in a ... More

Two major refurbishments of tourist destinations in York are under threat due to government spending cuts. The Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency had hoped to ... More

The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York has revealed that work to restore the historic Flying Scotsman locomotive is set to take longer to complete ... More