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Further cuts to hit English museums

Arts council and national museum budgets cut over next two years

Cultural heritage to be included in European funding programme

Amendment follows petition by museum professionals

Ann Sumner resigns as director of Birmingham Museums Trust

Tim Knox appointed as next head of Fitzwilliam

Winner of Artes Mundi 5 announced

Teresa Margolles wins £40,000 prize

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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