Museum acquisitions
Museums often acquire works through donations but, in spite of funding constraints, they also make purchases to expand their collections, either bidding at auctions, negotiating private treaty sales or, in the UK, via the Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
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New grant helps funding appeal to keep Wedgwood First Day’s vase in Stoke on Trent
17 March 2017Stoke-on-Trent’s Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is hopeful of raising nearly half a million pounds to buy a Wedgwood First Day’s vase after it was awarded a £90,000 grant from the Art Fund.
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Sim Fine Art sells domestic painting of lazy Sunday to London's Geffrye Museum
13 March 2017Sim Fine Art has made its second sale to a major London institution in two years with the sale of a painting the Geffrye Museum.
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Harrogate museum acquires Fabergé cutlery set for £20,000 at auction
03 March 2017Dealer Wartski has bought a boxed set of Fabergé cutlery at auction for the Royal Pump Room Museum in Harrogate.
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London art dealer helps stolen bronze return to Berlin museum after 70 years
02 March 2017A bronze Etruscan statuette that was stolen from Berlin’s Antikensammlung during the Second World War has been returned after the intervention of London dealers Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch.
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Chelsea dealer sells George II table to Leeds’ Temple Newsam House
16 February 2017The London dealer Godson and Coles of Fulham Road has concluded the sale of this George II period brass-inlaid mahogany metamorphic table to Temple Newsam House.
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Export bar issued for Parmigianino from Sudeley Castle bought by Getty Museum
10 February 2017An oil painting by Parmigianino has been barred from export in the hope £24.5m can be raised to keep it in the UK.
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Applications open for museums’ print fair acquisitions prize
31 January 2017UK museums and galleries have the chance to add to this print collection this year with the help of an award at the London Original Print Fair (LOPF).
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Dealer helps Scottish museum piece together Egyptian treasure
25 January 2017Antiquities specialist Charles Ede has revealed its role in helping National Museums Scotland complete one of the Egyptian treasures in its collection.
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Bronze Age jug returned to Turkey
17 January 2017A Bronze Age artefact from Anatolia has been returned to Turkey after a ceremony at the Turkish Embassy in London.
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Review of the Year 2016 - Saved for the Nation
27 December 2016Important works of art sold to overseas buyers are typically subject to temporary export bans in the hope that a buyer can be found to keep them in the UK - here we offer our top five 2016 purchases
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Dealer Roger Keverne donates pirate painting to Hong Kong museum
15 December 2016Asian art dealers Roger and Miranda Keverne donated a Chinese export painting, depicting pirates on the China coast, to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
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Watercolour of Henry VIII’s famed lost Palace of Nonsuch saved for the nation
09 December 2016The earliest and most detailed depiction of Henry VIII’s famed lost Palace of Nonsuch will soon be on public display after The Victoria & Albert Museum saved it for the nation.
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Museums offered chance to buy metal detectorist’s Bronze Age gold torc
29 November 2016A 3000-year old torc found in a field in east Cambridgeshire is one of the largest and heaviest to be unearthed in the UK.
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The Victoria & Albert Museum unveils 500 objects from its Gilbert Collection
22 November 2016The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Galleries in the Victoria & Albert Museum has re-opened with more than 500 objects on display, free to the public.
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Dealer helps Fitzwilliam track down trophy mirror in France
21 November 2016The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hopes to raise the final £65,000 needed to buy a 17th century gilded mirror frame for its collection.
![Lagrenee NG](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/8773/sewell-nga-2268nedi-18-11-16.jpg?center=0.54822335025380708,0.5146443514644351&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462557730000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a42%3a53)
Old Master painting from Brian Sewell collection donated to The National Gallery
19 November 2016The National Gallery has received one of the paintings from the collection of the late art critic Brian Sewell.
![Monarch of the Glen](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/8759/monarch-of-the-glen-landeer-2266nedi-03-11-16.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462557730000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a42%3a53)
Monarch of the Glen withdrawn from Christie’s auction as museum and owner make deal
17 November 2016Edwin Landseer’s Monarch of the Glen has been withdrawn from auction at Christie’s following an agreement between the consignor and the National Galleries of Scotland to help the museum retain the iconic painting.
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The Yorkshire Museum acquires second largest Roman coin hoard ever found
10 November 2016The Yorkshire Museum has acquired the Wold Newton Hoard after receiving funds totalling £44,200.
![Prince of Wales](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/8654/masons-painting-2267nedi-09-11-16.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462557680000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a42%3a48)
Mason museum buys rare glass painting of Grand Master
09 November 2016The Library and Museum of Freemasonry in London has revealed the latest addition to its collection.
![hoard](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/8618/hoard-2267nedi-07-11-16.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462557670000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a42%3a47)
Ashmolean Museum aims to save Anglo-Saxon hoard before it gets "broken up"
07 November 2016The Ashmolean Museum has made a significant stride towards the retention of a Viking hoard with the receipt of a grant of more than £1.1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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