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Arts Council of Wales consults on lottery spending strategy

Arts council seeks to make funding more universally accessible

Within and Without: Body Image and the Self, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Dan Vo explores how social, historical and cultural factors affect identity

Museums are most popular heritage attraction among young people

But almost a fifth of 18- to 30-year-olds say they never visit

Unpaid internships are “huge social mobility issue”

Sutton Trust finds 90% of work placements are unpaid

Government to recruit disability champion for heritage sector

Initiative aims to improve disabled access to sites around the UK

Small museums across UK awarded Royal Society funding

Grants will be used for science projects ranging from music to psychiatry

Norwich printing museum to relocate after demolition fears

John Jarrold Printing Museum displays historic printing equipment

Museum of London seeks to acquire water cannon trucks

The vehicles were ordered by Boris Johnson during his time as mayor

Museums thank National Lottery players

Free entry and special events at hundreds of venues

Museums are “promising example” of role of culture in health and social care

Report examines place of arts and culture in health, wellbeing and prison sectors

World news digest

Canada: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and doctors’ organisation Médecins Francophones du Canada are teaming up to allow physicians to prescribe free museum visits. It is hoped the visits will boost patients’ moods and wellbeing. Syria: The national museum has reopened, six years after civil war forced its closure. The National Museum of Damascus …

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