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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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