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Details emerge of destruction at Brazil’s national museum

International effort underway to salvage knowledge, research and images

Colchester secretly disposed of a 2,000-year-old Roman water feature

Decision in 2006 taken due to lack of resources and size of object

Should overseas visitors pay a hotel tax to support local culture?

V&A director Tristam Hunt suggests such a tax could help maintain free entry

V&A Dundee prepares to welcome its first visitors

New design museum will open to the public on Saturday

Compton Verney director steps down

Steven Parissien to leave for new role in Canada

Partners drop out of Science and Industry Museum festival in protest at Shell deal

More than 57,000 people sign petition urging museum to cut ties with oil giant

Should quotas be introduced to ensure gender parity in exhibitions?

Royal Academy exhibition will feature male and female nudes in equal number

Home Office rejects Egyptian conservator’s visa application

Ayman Habib was invited to attend a conference at the Natural History Museum in London

V&A Dundee turns down donation from strip club owner

Museum cites contradiction with its "core aims and values"

Fire devastates Brazil’s national museum

Close to 90% of museum’s collection thought to have been lost

Poll: Does cultural regeneration benefit local communities?

V&A Dundee opening puts focus on local inequality 

Greece ups pressure for Parthenon Marbles return

UK officials invited to Athens to discuss issue