{"id":28228,"date":"2020-11-10T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28228"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:51:56","slug":"new-appg-promotes-museums-interests-across-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=28228","title":{"rendered":"New APPG promotes museums interests across the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28229\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Museums_APPG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/>The purpose of the new All-Party Parliamentary Group for Museums (APPG) chaired by Chris Skidmore, Conservative MP for Kingswood is to highlight and promote the interests of museums across the UK.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8230; duty to preserve our inherited body of the past\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The National Museum Directors Council (nmdc) writes:<\/p>\n<p>The APPG focuses on understanding and promoting the importance and value of museums including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The duty to preserve our inherited body of the past and heritages of all forms held in our museum collections<\/li>\n<li>The role of museums in informing, educating and inspiring current and future generations<\/li>\n<li>The role of museums as anchor institutions and cultural hubs within their local communities<\/li>\n<li>The role of museums in tourism, highlighting our world leading cultural heritage and contributing to the UK\u2019s soft power and international standing<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that every part of the UK can benefit from museums \u2013 how they can enhance and support levelling-up across the country<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring museums are utilising and benefiting from enhancements in digital technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalmuseums.org.uk\/what-we-do\/museums-appg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of the new All-Party Parliamentary Group for Museums (APPG) chaired by Chris Skidmore, Conservative MP for Kingswood is to highlight and promote the interests of museums across the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28230,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28228\/revisions\/28230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}