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World news digest: February 2014

France: The Louvre had 9.2 million visitors in 2013, compared with 9.7 million in 2012. More than 70% of visitors came from abroad, but about 1.3 million were from Paris and the surrounding Ile-de-France region. Significantly, almost 50% of visitors were aged under 30. The new Louvre-Lens satellite branch in northern France attracted almost 900,000 …

Funding news

MGS takes five

Joint fund awards £4m to English museums

Forty museums receive grants from DCMS/Wolfson fund

Campaign launched to save Cynon Valley Museum

One of a number of museums threatened with closure this year

DCMS looking at future of Blythe House

West London site houses millions of objects held by three national museums

Miller: economic argument is one of many

Culture secretary changes tack

New director for Ashmolean announced

Director of Holburne Museum to succeed Christopher Brown

MGS allocates £450,000 capital funding

Includes £7,305 to Grampian Transport Museum Trust

Mosi director to return to Science Museum as deputy director

Jean Franczyk to leave Manchester in September

Bristol backtracks on plans to close four museums

Council will continue to seek external organisations to run venues