Acquisitions

Six objects to remain in UK following export bars

Alan Turing papers among those acquired by UK institutions

Nationally important needlework collection donated to National Museums NI

Donation helps ‘rebuild what was lost’ after museum's historic textile collection was destroyed during Troubles

Bristol Museum raises £100,000 in five days to bid for Turner painting

Urgent campaign aims to bring rediscovered work into public ownership

Bristol Museum launches urgent fundraiser to acquire Turner artwork

Organisation has just one week to raise £100,000 to buy the painting, which is to be auctioned at Sotheby's on 2 July

Museums in Chelmsford and Norwich acquire gold coin hoards

Significant discoveries of Roman and Anglo-Saxon gold coins to go on permanent display

Yorkshire Museum crowdfunds to acquire ‘game-changing’ iron age hoard

Melsonby Hoard includes more than 900 objects that hint at Mediterranean links

Welsh football museum acquires ‘quirky’ object

Venue is due to open next year alongside a revamped Wrexham Museum

In brief | Latest moves, projects and developments in the sector

King’s Tower opens to public | National Portrait Gallery immersive partnership | V&A Wedgwood acquisition

Five national treasures to remain in UK following export bars

Drawings of Kew flowers, a walrus ivory carving and a 13th-century bible are all now in public ownership

Ashmolean raises £4.5m in nine months to keep Fra Angelico masterpiece in UK

Museum says acquisition will inspire a ‘total rehang’ of its Italian Renaissance galleries

UK collections boosted by Frieze art fair acquisitions

Hepworth Wakefield, Tate and the Arts Council Collection among those who have new works following the event