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Inquiry to look into fairness of funding

Connect10 shortlist revealed

Venues compete to host artist-led event

Uncertain future for Wirral museums

Heritage group says cuts will close down service

Protest over Turner Prize gallery closure

Anger over plans to turn site into digital hub

ACE to reallocate strategic support budget

New open access grants fund to be launched

£30m revamp for Aberdeen Art Gallery gets council approval

Project expected to begin next year

Viking loot found in British Museum stores

1,000 year-old brooch found by curator

Union warns of more industrial action at NMS

Warning follows Boxing Day strike over pay dispute

Bristol council looks to close four museums

Other local authority museums hit by cuts and closures

World news digest: January 2014

Belgium: The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, closed in late November for a three-year refurbishment. The museum, which opened in 1910, has embarked on the €55m renovation in a bid to shake off its dated image and modernise its colonial-era collections and permanent galleries. France: Bernard Blistène has been appointed as …