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Cultural Gifts Scheme

Touring exhibition to celebrate objects acquired under tax-relief schemes

The Collected show will visit the UK’s four capital cities between 2027 and 2028  

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

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

Cultural Gifts and Acceptance in Lieu schemes secure 42 objects

Objects worth almost £27m given to public collections this year