Thrilled that the Florence Nightingale Museum won the award for best museum shop at the Museums & Heritage Show's gala dinner last night in London. This was for the under £500,000 sales category and for retail transformation. Congratulations to Kristin, David and the t...

On 22 March sales in the shops at Bristol Museums were officially 100% up on 2015 which was the point when we started working with Zak Mensah, Head of Transformation, and his hard working team. It's been exciting to see how retail has flourished and how its profile has...

Great day last Thursday helping merchandise the new shop at the Eling Tide Mill Experience near Southampton. The mill re-oped this week after major refurbishment and the new shop has some great product including flour milled in the traditional way from genuine tidal po...

Just back from an excellent two days at the Association for Cultural Enterprises convention in Brighton. A valuable series of presentations and seminars, most notably Julie Steiner, President, Museum Store Association and Director of Retail at the Barnes Foundation Phi...

Like for like sales were up sharply at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and M Shed in December. Application of good retail disciplines were further boosted by product for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at M Shed and supported by great display input and id...

Off to Top Drawer again this month with the buying team from Bristol Museums sourcing new product for the soon to be extended shop at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery!

We delivered a training day on retail selling and visual merchandising skills to 20 delegates at the spectacular New Art Gallery Walsall. This is to underpin the gallery's recent focus on developing the shop which has just undergone a full refit with purpose designed f...