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Scottish Maritime Museum launches new online learning programme

Workshops linked to STEM subjects will be offered to local primary schools

Hull Maritime Museum invites tenders for major revamp

Project is part of £27m cultural regeneration scheme

English councils predict £700m gap in culture and leisure budgets

Local authorities expect to spend about £200m more on these services in 2020/21 while losing around £500m in income

Scottish acquisitions grant scheme unveiled

The new Special Funding Scheme has no deadlines

Museums Galleries Scotland announces Covid-19 support

Recovery and Resilience fund will provide £4m for Accredited and non-Accredited independent museums

Culture Recovery Fund offers £400m in loans and capital grants

Decisions on repayable finance will be made by independent board chaired by businessman Damon Buffini

Sheffield museums reveal merger plan

Museums Sheffield and Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust will become one organisation on 1 April 2021

Mary Rose and National Museum of the Royal Navy announce collaboration

New joint tickets will offer entry to several maritime heritage attractions for a year

Art Fund awards £600,000 to 18 museums and galleries

Recipients include Foundling Museum and National Videogame Museum

Tate to make more than 300 commercial staff redundant

The gallery group says a long-term drop in visitor numbers has forced it to restructure its business

Extend furlough scheme to save museums, says Senedd report

Committee warns ‘financial timebomb’ will hit organisations in October

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