Museums and galleries

Guidance and regulation

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
Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums
- Guidance
- 11 October 2005
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Immunity From Seizure Provisions Within DCA's Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill
- Guidance
- 31 March 2008
- 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
Taking Part Privacy Notice
- Detailed guide
- 4 December 2018
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Closed organisation: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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News and communications

Aurora Antrim and Jane Hurst have been reappointed to The Royal Parks, and Bronwyn Hill’s second term extended.
- 16 July 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Royal Parks
- News story
PM remarks at the British Museum: 9 July 2025
- 9 July 2025
- Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Speech
Patrick Barker, Edmund Neuberger and Naila Yousuf appointed to the Board of the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
- 16 June 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust
- News story
John Booth reappointed as Chair of the National Gallery.
- 16 June 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and National Gallery
- News story
Three Board Members reappointed to the Museum of the Home
- 9 May 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Museum of the Home
- News story

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Research and statistics

DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries annual performance indicators 2023/24
- 17 July 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Official statistics
DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates: Trade, 2022 and 2023
- 26 June 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Official statistics
Economic Estimates: Earnings 2024 for DCMS Sectors
- 11 June 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Official statistics
Economic Estimates: Employment October 2023 to September 2024 for DCMS Sectors
- 11 June 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- National statistics
Museums and galleries monthly visits
- 15 May 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

Report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in respect of the painting 'Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy' by Henry Gibbs
- 28 April 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Policy paper
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

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

The Royal Armouries framework document 2025-2028
- 2 July 2025
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Royal Armouries Museum
- Corporate report
British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2023 to 2024
- 29 July 2024
- British Library
- Corporate report
British Library Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
- 19 July 2023
- British Library
- Corporate report
The British Museum annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023
- 12 July 2023
- British Museum
- Corporate report
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

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