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Open letter calls for safeguards to protect disability arts

Culture ministers warned Covid-19 has magnified inequalities for disabled people working in creative industries

Statue of slave trader removed from outside Museum of London Docklands

Mayor of London announces commission to look into future of controversial landmarks in city

Entrepreneurialism leaves museums more vulnerable to Covid-19 crisis, research finds

Earned income at NPOs has increased by 47% in 10 years

‘Historic moment’: M Shed to collect artefacts from protest that toppled Colston statue

Heritage community reacts to fall of statue dedicated to 17th-century slave trader

Museum activists say real change needed to combat racial injustice

Museum Detox says statements of solidarity from the sector must be backed up with meaningful action

Historic Royal Palaces sets up £26m borrowing facility

Charity is preparing reopening plan but expects recovery from crisis to be slow

Gunnersbury Park fears for future after fire brings further losses

The London museum is appealing for donations to ensure its survival

Independent museums are ‘hardest hit’ by Covid-19 crisis

Art Fund says the sector will need a balance of emergency grants and support for longer-term recovery

Sector bodies call for stand against racial injustice amid Black Lives Matter protests

Black Cultural Archives asks heritage sector to take unified 'anti-racist action'

Museum shops are key outlets for craft sales

Physical and online shops are significant buying channels for the UK’s highest-spending craft buyers, says the Crafts Council

Scotland’s museums badly hit by timing of Covid-19 crisis

Longer lockdown, earlier summer break and loss of overseas tourism are having an impact

One in 10 museum workers worldwide expects their institution to close

International Council of Museums calls on policy-makers to 'urgently allocate relief funds'