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BM receives highest-value object donation in UK museum history
Collection of 1,700 Chinese ceramics is worth an estimated £1bn
Culture minister ‘painfully aware’ of financial crisis facing civic museums
Chris Bryant outlines his plans for the sector in address to MA conference
Royal Armouries displays body armour damaged in Ukraine war
Exhibits have been decorated with religious iconography and will be on display until May 2025
Wrexham’s ‘museum of two halves’ asks public to vote on new name
Venue will house national football museum and galleries dedicated to Wrexham history
Ashmolean raises £4.5m in nine months to keep Fra Angelico masterpiece in UK
Museum says acquisition will inspire a ‘total rehang’ of its Italian Renaissance galleries
Scottish museums’ finances are ‘more fragile than ever’
Visitor numbers surpass pre-pandemic levels but 11% of venues fear closure, finds new MGS survey
Clore Duffield to invest £5m in school trips to museums
Funding will support curriculum and enrichment experiences for thousands of children
Mapping Museums Lab goes in search of lost collections
Research team seeks help finding out what happened to objects after museums closed down
Capital museum projects face uncertainty as government mulls £100m cut
Funding for National Museums Liverpool, National Railway Museum and V&A Dundee could be withdrawn
Art Fund awards £1m to local authority museums
Twenty UK organisations to benefit from grants towards community engagement projects
