English councils predict £700m gap in culture and leisure budgets
Local authorities expect to spend about £200m more on these services in 2020/21 while losing around £500m in income
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Scottish acquisitions grant scheme unveiled
The new Special Funding Scheme has no deadlines
Museums Galleries Scotland announces Covid-19 support
Recovery and Resilience fund will provide £4m for Accredited and non-Accredited independent museums
Culture Recovery Fund offers £400m in loans and capital grants
Decisions on repayable finance will be made by independent board chaired by businessman Damon Buffini
Sheffield museums reveal merger plan
Museums Sheffield and Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust will become one organisation on 1 April 2021
Mary Rose and National Museum of the Royal Navy announce collaboration
New joint tickets will offer entry to several maritime heritage attractions for a year
Art Fund awards £600,000 to 18 museums and galleries
Recipients include Foundling Museum and National Videogame Museum
Tate to make more than 300 commercial staff redundant
The gallery group says a long-term drop in visitor numbers has forced it to restructure its business
Extend furlough scheme to save museums, says Senedd report
Committee warns ‘financial timebomb’ will hit organisations in October
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Museums urged to rethink their treatment of replicas
University of Stirling publishes guidance promoting the value of replicas
Review finds systemic racism within Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Lawyer Isha Khan has been appointed as the institution's new director