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ACE – The power of partnerships in the growth and survival of museums
Every person I meet from a museum makes an effort to impress upon me their museum’s uniqueness, its individuality and its special nature. Visiting lots of museums and trying to understand their particular strengths and assets is a wonderful part… Read more
Arts Council England announces three galleries as new national partners to its collection
The three galleries Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Birmingham Museums Trust and The Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool will host 24 exhibitions over three years, becoming national partners for the Collection,… Read more
Culture Minister puts temporary export bar on 17th century Italian cabinets worth £1.2m
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the 300-year-old ebony cabinets to provide an opportunity to save them for the nation. Experts say that they are among the most important cabinets from Rome left in Britain… Read more
Museums among 16 organisations through to £57m second stage of ACE capital grants programme
Most of these 16 projects focus on the refurbishment or extension of existing arts buildings and range from upgrades of spaces to large scale renovations. The successful applicants have now been invited to complete a stage two application within the… Read more
ACE announces acceptance in lieu treasures worth almost £40m accepted for the nation
The Cultural Gifts Scheme enables UK taxpayers to donate important works of art and other heritage objects to be held for the benefit of the public or the nation. In return, donors will receive a tax reduction based on a… Read more
ACE’s director of museums reflects on the ups and downs of the recent Spending Review
Let’s start with some significant positives. The news for Arts Council England and its work with regional museums across England was vastly better than expected. A small cash rise over four years means only a modest decline… Read more
Free entry for nationals secured in spending review but many museums await cuts from squeezed local authorities
The DCMS received an overall cut of five per cent, to include a 20 per cent cut to its administration budget, while ACE and England’s national museums will receive standstill budgets until 2019-20. However, museum directors across the country expressed… Read more
Bowes Museum acquires Van Dyck Painting as part of acceptance in lieu scheme
Arts Council England has announced the acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax of a painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck of his close friend Olivia Porter and has been allocated to The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham Portrait of… Read more
ACE announces successful applicants of £2.6m funds for WiFi in Public Libraries
Arts Council England (ACE) is delivering the WiFi in Public Libraries programme, on behalf of DCMS, which is a one-off funding programme to enable all libraries in England to provide free, accessible WiFi for their users. It… Read more
National Centre for Children’s Books completes fairy tale £780k refurbishment
Seven Stories, the national children’s literature archive, has a collection of original manuscripts and artwork of authors and illustrators from the 1930s to the present day. Its unique Collection represents the work of more than 200 authors… Read more