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Abu Dhabi: The 24,000 sq m Guggenheim Museum planned for Saadiyat Island has been put on hold after the emirate cancelled the construction contracts for the Frank Gehry-designed building. The emirate’s Tourism Development and Investment Company has returned bids to the 11 contractors that took part in the tender process. The museum is now scheduled …

Army museums facing a shake-up in financing

Changes would save Ministry of Defence more than £0.5m a year

Vindolanda breaks record

Places for volunteer dig snapped up in two hours

Free thinking is still in vogue

UK governments have committed to free entry to nationals until the next spending round

Funding news

Lest we forget

Sector worried by loss of natural history expertise

Warwickshire and Derby museums have made curators redundant

Dan Jarvis to launch report into arts in the regions

Report to assess value of and access to projects

Campaign to buy Titian suffers funding blow

Scottish government will not contribute towards the £50m price

Birmingham plans to put museums into trust model

Thinktank would be part of spring overhaul

DCMS still seeking funds for seven non-nationals

Eight months after self-imposed deadline, only National Football Museum has financing

ACE concludes that its decision to support Public was ‘poor judgement’

Council ignored own misgivings on funding

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