Museums and galleries

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Guidance and regulation

• Applying for the VAT Refund Scheme for museums and galleries
  • Detailed guide
  • 6 December 2022
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund 2022-24
  • Detailed guide
  • 9 May 2022
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Taking Part Privacy Notice
  • Detailed guide
  • 4 December 2018
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• DCMS Business Plan 2012-2015
  • Guidance
  • 8 July 2011
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• 2009 DCMS annual report
  • Guidance
  • 10 August 2009
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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News and communications

• Five appointments made to the National Museums Liverpool Board
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and National Museums Liverpool
  • News story
• Over 70 cultural venues, museums and libraries supported with £60 million boost
  • 20 March 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Press release
• Thousands more treasures to be saved for the nation as rules about discoveries are changed
  • 18 February 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Press release
• Dame Jane Francis appointed Royal Society Trustee of the Natural History Museum
  • 31 January 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Natural History Museum
  • News story
• Ancient Egyptian limestone relief of female musicians at risk of leaving UK
  • 23 January 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Arts Council England
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Participation Survey 2021–22 annual report
  • 6 June 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Official statistics
• DCMS Sector National Economic Estimates: 2011 to 2020
  • 20 April 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Official statistics
• Economic Estimates: Earnings 2022 and Employment Oct 2021 to Sept 2022 for the DCMS Sectors and Digital Sector
  • 20 April 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Official statistics
• Participation Survey: October to December 2022 publication
  • 30 March 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Official statistics
• Ad hoc statistical analysis: 2022/23 Jan to Mar (Quarter 4)
  • 29 March 2023
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

• Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in respect of the painting ‘La Ronde Enfantine’ by Gustave Courbet in the possession of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • 28 March 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Policy paper
• Understanding the National Museums’ Partnership activities in 2020/21
  • 17 February 2023
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  • Policy paper
• PBIF and MEND evaluation framework report
  • 7 July 2022
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Policy paper
• Museum Partnership Report: Understanding the national museums' partnership activities in 2017 to 2018
  • 9 August 2019
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Policy paper
• Museums Action Plan 2018
  • 4 October 2018
  • Arts Council England, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Historic England, Closed organisation: Heritage Lottery Fund (administered by the NHMF), and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• The Geffrye Museum Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
  • 20 December 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Museum of the Home
  • Corporate report
• Tate Gallery Annual Accounts 2021-2022
  • 21 November 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Corporate report
• National Maritime Museum Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
  • 26 September 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Corporate report
• Natural History Museum Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
  • 11 August 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • Corporate report
• Imperial War Museum Annual Report and Accounts 2021 to 2022
  • 3 August 2022
  • Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Imperial War Museum
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Culture, Media & Sport
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• HM Treasury
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland

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