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Record number of applications received for sustainability funding

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Belgium: Five museums are to open in Mons, Belgium, this spring as part of the 2015 European Capital of Culture festival. They include the Mons Memorial Museum and the Musée du Doudou. The museums have budgets ranging from €2m (£1.5m) to €8m (£5.9m). Peru: The government has announced plans for a 49,000 sq ft museum …

Walsall Museum to close next month

Council seeks HLF funding for new heritage centre

Heritage bodies condemn destruction of Mosul antiquities

Experts say artefacts in IS video appear to be genuine

Overseas trump domestic visits at flagship museums

Free entry ‘failing in its mission’ to make museums more inclusive

Miliband pledges to prioritise access to arts

Labour would put creative education into Ofsted inspections

Audiences for publicly-funded culture lack diversity

Warwick Commission report calls for publicly-funded organisations to deliver social value

Janet Barnes to retire as chief executive of York Museums Trust

Barnes will oversee reopening of York Art Gallery before stepping down in November

Council defeats motion to save Snibston

Friends group considers legal challenge

Should UK museums ban selfie sticks?

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Griff Rhys Jones to host museum quiz show on BBC4

Programme locations to include NMM and Ashmolean

NMM awarded £5m for four new galleries

Other HLF awards go to Compton Verney and Brooklands Museum