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The Power of Museums
This month I was up in Newcastle Gateshead for the Museums Association 2023 conference. The theme? The Power of Museums. The programme was packed...
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The AMHT in Tokyo for Aston Martin Arcadia.
The Aston Martin Heritage Trust team is heading to Tokyo, Japan, for the first-of-its-kind Aston Martin Arcadia event hosted at Fuji Speedway. Two trustees, Garry Taylor and Steve Waddingham (also AML Historian), will attend the event as representatives of the Aston...
New exhibition at the AMHT Museum: 25 years in 25 objects
This year is the Aston Martin Heritage Trust’s 25th birthday. As part of the celebrations, a new exhibition runs throughout August and September at the AMHT Museum in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. The latest curated collection tells the story of the AMHT’s...
Stellar turnout for the Aston Martin Heritage Festival 2023
Nearly 600 examples of the Aston Martin Lagonda cars, including hugely rare and genuine one-off creations, made their way to the British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, to honour 25 years of the AMHT and 110 years of the great British car maker. The AMHT’s celebration...
‘Team of the Year’ nomination for the AMHT team
The Aston Martin Heritage Trust team have been hard at work to make this year the best one yet. And it hasn't gone unnoticed. The team have been shortlisted for 'Team of the Year' in Octane's Historic Motoring Awards. With this fantastic achievement, it's only right...
DB9 in a line. Here is a small selection of the DB9s you’ll see at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival.
It was two decades ago that Aston Martin launched the DB9 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. In celebration of 20 years of the beautiful DB9, there will be over 15 examples at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival. Before introducing them, let’s review what made the DB9 a...
The DB5s you’ll see at the Aston Martin Heritage Festival.
The year 2023 marks sixty glorious years of the DB5. Often billed as the “most famous car in the world”, James Bond’s DB5 in Goldfinger became the car everyone desired. It’s regarded by many as the most beautiful Aston Martin produced. Come to the Aston Martin...
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The Power of Museums
This month I was up in Newcastle Gateshead for the Museums Association 2023 conference. The theme? The Power of Museums. The programme was packed full off sessions to explore how museums can help communities flourish, have a positive impact on health, wellbeing and...
A Collections Management What?
All sectors have their own particular language and museums are no different. Sometimes we might come out with things that aren’t familiar, so I thought for this blog post we’d take a look at one of these phrases and at the same time celebrate a big bit of recent...
Hammer Time
While it may sound like I’ve been getting back into 90’s hip-hop, I have in fact been having an exciting time getting familiar with the auction world. Earlier this month, AMHT were successful in bidding for and obtaining four Bamford & Martin engineering drawings...
AMHT25: Behind the Scenes
“The Trust will have a major role to play in keeping alive the wit and ingenuity, the innovation and dedication and the sheer imagination of the men and women who made Aston Martin what it is.” So said Walter Hayes, inaugural Chair of AMHT on our foundation in 1998....
Trustees’ Talk
The Aston Martin Heritage Trust announces new trustees
The Aston Martin Heritage Trust (AMHT) has appointed two new trustees in its 25th year. Tamalie Newbery, Director and CEO of Brooklands Museum, and Steve Waddingham, the AMHT Historian, join the Board of Trustees for the charity that boasts the world’s largest...
