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Cultural education consultation launched

Museums urged to contribute to review of cultural education

The Happy Museum launches £60,000 commission fund

A £60,000 commission fund has been launched for museums to demonstrate how they can promote wellbeing in individuals and communities

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Australia: The Collections Australia Network, which enabled small institutions to promote events online and provided information for sector volunteers, has closed. The organisation responsible for funding collection projects since the mid-1980s, the Cultural Ministers Council, is also set to shut in June. China: Norman Foster has won the competition to design a masterplan for the …

NMS sites to charge under-12s admission

Three museums change policy on free entry for children to compensate for budget cuts

Education projects secure £1.5m reprieve from DfE

Projects could carry on despite the Strategic Commissioning Programme being axed

Egyptian looting worse than initially feared

Revised list shows 37 objects still missing from national museum after January revolution

Industrial body set up

Federation to represent eight Scottish museums

Funding news

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Banking on tourism growth

Tourism strategy welcomed but worries about cuts remain

ACE funding: the sector responds

New funding portfolio gives some organisations cause for celebration but leaves many under threat

ACE could sell works to finance acquisitions

Sale of works from ACE collection not ruled out

Scottish museums secure £1m in funding

But acquisitions fund has been slashed by 25%