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Wedgwood Museum under threat after £134m pension shortfall
Museum News - 09 August 2010
AN extraordinary legal loophole threatens to decimate the unique collection of the award-winning Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.
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Sotheby’s broker art leasing deal for museum
Museum News - 26 July 2010
A DEBT-plagued university in Boston has entered into an agreement with Sotheby’s to lease rather than sell off works from its museum’s $350m art collection.
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Talk at auction rooms brings more help for the hoard
Museum News - 06 April 2010
CUTTLESTONES auctioneers are to host a talk on the Staffordshire Hoard to help raise funds to conserve the treasure.
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Staffordshire Hoard saved for the nation
Museum News - 29 March 2010
THE Staffordshire Hoard has been saved for the nation – and a further £1.7m appeal has been launched to pay for its conservation, study and display.
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Just one element from Britain’s largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard: a Christian cross which has been folded, possibly to make it fit into a small space prior to burial.
London Jewish Museum scoops Chagall for £26,000
Museum News - 18 January 2010
THE London Jewish Museum of Art (the Ben Uri Gallery) have announced that they have purchased a crucifixion by Marc Chagall for what they believe to be a fraction of its real value at a Paris auction.
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Liechtenstein cancel RA show over export dispute
Museum News - 22 December 2009
THE Royal Academy’s 2010 exhibition of treasures from the Liechtenstein Museum has been cancelled after the failure to resolve a long-running dispute over export licences.
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V&A to stage fakes show
Museum News - 22 December 2009
THE V&A is to put on an exhibition of fakes curated by the Metropolitan Police Service's Art and Antiques Unit.
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Museums launch appeal to buy Anglo-Saxon hoard
Museum News - 07 December 2009
THE two museums hoping to provide a home for the Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold will be asking arts charities and other funding bodies to pay for it.
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Just one element from Britain’s largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard: a Christian cross which has been folded, possibly to make it fit into a small space prior to burial.
Revamp for St Ives studios
Museum News - 23 November 2009
THE St Ives studio that housed Sir Terry Frost, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon has won a £900,000 restoration grant.
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Rethink over glass museum
Museum News - 09 November 2009
DUDLEY Council are to scrap plans to close the Broadfield House Glass Museum and relocate the renowned glass collections to the nearby Cone site.
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