Collecting

Artworks highlighting Scotland’s links to British Empire donated to museums

Works from the John Shaw Collection gifted to The Hunterian and Paisley Museum

Campaign to save rare Hepworth sculpture gets closer to £3.8m target

Headley Trust is the latest to donate with £100,000 grant

Museums invited to take part in railway collecting consultation

Survey will help inform a new policy to protect artefacts

Charleston launches initiative to find privately owned Bloomsbury art

Gallery hopes display of never-seen paintings will encourage collectors to come forward ahead of its 50th anniversary

Museum of Liverpool acquires Mel Giedroyc’s Eurovision butter churn

Institution launches collecting drive to capture ‘humour, joy and inclusivity’ of contest

Campaign to jointly acquire portrait by Reynolds reaches £50m target

Portrait of Mai acquired by National Portrait Gallery and Getty

Q&A | ‘An exciting new chapter in the history of drawing’

Isabel Seligman talks to us about curating a show on some of the youngest artists ever collected by the British Museum

Spain | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres

Eleanor Mills talks to the pioneering collector immortalised in a gallery of artworks she has donated

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Home collections are being lost

Treasures are waiting to be discovered, says Maureen Roberts

Two Paula Rego artworks go on display at National Museum Cardiff

Works acquired for Derek Williams Trust collection

Acquisitions fund toasts successful year

NFA distributed £86,354 in 27 grants to 17 organisations across Scotland in 2020/21

‘Once in a generation’: Institutions join forces in bid to acquire rare private library

Sotheby’s agrees to postpone impending auction of Honresfield collection