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How Art Fund has worked to ensure national treasures are no longer lost to the UK

How Art Fund has worked to ensure national treasures are no longer lost to the UK Salvador Dalí and Edward James, Lobster Telephone, 1938 / © Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, DACS / Edward James Foundation Published 10 March 2021 News, Policy Published 10 March 2021 Director of programmes and policy Art Fund has long campaigned to improve the export licence system that protects our national treasures from being sold overseas. Sarah Philp, Art Fund’s director of programme and policy, reflects on the journey to get new measures in place, and what this means for our museums. For many people, Art Fund is inextricably connected to ‘saving’ great works of art, leading fundraising campaigns to bring them into public ownership and onto the walls of museums and galleries across the UK. This is exciting and rewarding work – a looming deadline, a seemingly impossible sum of money to raise, lots of media coverage and, always and most importantly, an extraordinary wo

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Many museums in UK could be thing of the past

By EARLE GALE in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-02-01 09:09 Share CLOSE Staff members dust off an exhibit ahead of the reopening of the British Museum in London in August last year. HAN YAN/XINHUA Art, cultural facilities that rely on ticket sales struggle to survive amid pandemic lockdowns The United Kingdom s long and colorful history, which many tourists cite as a major reason for visiting, could become less vivid and less of a draw in a post-pandemic world because of the closure of some of the country s museums and historical sites. The facilities, many of which are run as charities or not-for-profit entities, rely heavily on revenue from ticket sales and have suffered greatly from lost income during lockdowns aimed at limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Dick, Kerr Ladies attracted 53,000 fans on Boxing Day 100 years ago A year later, they were banned - 25-Dec-2020

Dick, Kerr Ladies attracted 53,000 fans on Boxing Day 100 years ago A year later, they were banned - 25-Dec-2020
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