Acquisitions

Rare treasure finds added to collections after fundraising success

Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and South West Heritage Trust announce acquisitions

Wordsworth Trust saves Lake District poet’s final home

Rydal Mount was on sale for £2.5m after struggling with falling visitor numbers and rising costs

North East Museums looks to acquire £450,000 flag

Charitable donation will enable purchase of the rare union jack that survived the Battle of Trafalgar

Earliest ever YouTube video enters V&A collection

A reconstructed watch page featuring the 2005 clip can be seen in the museum's design gallery

IWM acquires Dame Vera Lynn wartime archive

Collection of second world war entertainer includes fan letters and personal diary

Cultural objects worth £59m gifted to museums and galleries

A total of 32 cases went through Acceptance in Lieu and the Cultural Gifts Scheme last year

Museums encouraged to apply to the ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund

Funding supports permanent acquisitions by non-national institutions in England and Wales

British Museum in bid to raise £3.5m for gold Tudor pendant

Heart-shaped piece is a rare surviving artefact from marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon

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Private collection loans benefit all parties

Renaissance artworks will transform the Holburne, says Chris Stephens

Barbara Hepworth sculpture goes on display after successful fundraising appeal

New display at Hepworth Wakefield will tell the story of the artwork

NMS to display bronze age weapons hoard for the first time

Recently acquired Carnoustie Hoard suggests existence of ancient warrior elite in the Angus area

Yorkshire Museum acquires iron age hoard after fundraising campaign

Melsonby Hoard of over 800 artefacts was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2021