Museum Momentum

By Ian Wylie for Times Higher Education. Once regarded as the Cinderella of higher education, university museums and galleries around the world are in the spotlight again.
Whitworth Art Gallery, part of the University of Manchester, reopens this week after a £15 million ($23 million) facelift. And last month, the king and queen of Spain opened the Museum University of Navarra in Pamplona, another example of an institution undertaking a role as guardian of national cultural treasures at a time when governments, local or national, have neither the will nor the resources to do the job. Read more...