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Gifted to the English city 80 years ago, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse will finally open to the public
After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer
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Shutdown tests mettle of UK's last major bell foundry
Taylor’s in Loughborough faces uphill struggle in fundraising drive to restore decaying buildings and create new museum
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Victorians in pictures: British Film Institute digitises archive of over 500 early silent films
Conservation experts carefully cleaned the fragile and flammable nitrate film so each frame could be individually scanned
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
V&A reapplies after lottery funding setback
Bid for Exhbition Road extension and underground gallery rejected
ArchiveTate Modern
Tate Modern extension snubbed by Lottery Fund
The request was rejected as a 'low priority', with concerns about 'deliverability'
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A steams ahead in fundraising for new galleries
Money comes in, openings on course
ArchiveAnthony d'Offay
Tate and Scottish National Gallery in talks to acquire d’Offay collection
Legendary dealer is thought to own 700 works worth £100m
ArchiveNational Lottery Heritage Fund
Three times lucky in Lottery funding as all applications awarded funds
The V&A, Museum of London, and National Museums of Scotland all get grants
ArchiveFundraising
Will Reynolds’ Archers stay in the UK? A look at Tate's fundraising efforts and the effects of the Waverley Criteria
Tate needs over £2 million to buy the £3.2 million painting from an overseas buyer
ArchiveMuseums
The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know
The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A drops Libeskind extension
£15 million Heritage Lottery Fund rejected
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Libeskind extension turned down by Heritage Lottery Fund
The Victoria and Albert Museum is now likely to drop the £70 million project
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A’s spiralling lottery hopes
£15 million bid submitted for 'Spiral' extension
ArchiveNational Trust
National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million
The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Tate director, Nicholas Serota: Recent art is patrimony too
Serota discusses export laws and what is truly significant to public collections
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
Beuys multiples acquired by National Galleries of Scotland
This important addition to Scottish collections includes nearly all of his best multiples
ArchiveTate
Tate forms partnerships with regional venues across Britain
An effort to increase the public's exposure to the National Collection
ArchiveJune 1999
Two mega-donations for London museum expansions
With £20 million each, plans progress for the British Museum Great Court and the V&A's spiral
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A British Galleries delay
£12 million required to complete refurbishment project.
ArchiveUnesco
The aspirations of Chris Smith, new Labour Secretary of State for National Heritage
Smith hopes for Britain to rejoin UNESCO, aiming divert Lottery funds to health and education
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Lottery winners and losers. £150 million to make Britain’s museums and galleries into world leaders
Victoria and Albert Museum’s £23 million British Galleries project sent back to the drawing board
ArchiveTate
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
ArchiveWestminster Abbey
The Westminster Retable: technically daring and now in danger
£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece
ArchiveNational Trust
Chastleton goes into National Trust ownership
Jacobean Oxfordshire house purchased for £2 million