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HLF funds Hedd Wynn

Grant to finance museum dedicated to Welsh poet

World news digest

Bosnia Herzegovina: The National Museum of Bosnia has closed following disputes between Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders over who should pay its bills. National museums have been under threat as the government, which has no ministry of culture, has refused to pay for their upkeep. France: A vast new exhibition devoted to surrealist painter Salvador …

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Mayor backs MoL’s Moore plan

Tower Hamlets Council's decision to sell Old Flo meets with disapproval

Cambridge museums’ poetry project under fire

Poet laureate's scheme linking poets with Cambridge collections lambasted by academics

Tate partnerships will expand breadth of collections

Collecting not confined to Europe and America

Acceptance in Lieu secures 51 objects

Scheme has saved £25m worth of treasures for the nation in two years

Science Museum’s Media Space gets mixed reaction

New £4m photography gallery must 'develop its own identity'

Concern over UN treaty’s impact on military collections

Movement of historic arms could be terminated

In brief

Jewish museum initiative - Lews Castle restoration - Boost for Watts plan - WWI centenary board

V&A director says Dundee outpost must have a permanent collection

Priority must be to work with other museums

Royal Armouries director general Riley quits post

Resignation comes six months after chief was suspended on full pay