Major grants for English museums
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London's National Portrait Gallery is among 43 museums and galleries to benefit from grants totalling Â£4m.
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Historic ships the Mary Rose and the Cutty Sark are to be given a Â£31m boost out of lottery funds.
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The state is providing $200,000 in grants to help eight communities and nonprofit organizations restore damaged wetlands, Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles announced this week.  Plymouth and the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research are among the recipients.
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Government announces grants to help local authorities affected by recent floods.
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The giant Diamond synchrotron being built in England is to receive a further Â£120m of funding.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced a 200 million pound matched funding scheme to persuade wealthy graduates to give money to struggling universities.
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Sherwood Forest could get an eco makeover and Cornwall an indoor desert, the Black Country could revamp its waterways and much of the UK might see new walking and cycling routes. These projects have made the shortlist of the national lottery's People's Millions project, vying for a one-off Â£50m grant.
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A fund-raising drive secures one of Turner's finest watercolours for the UK.
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A number of French museums will temporarily stop charging entrance fees as an experiment: If museums are free, will they draw a wider, more varied audience?
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Britain's prestigious Tate galleries are  so short of money to buy new acquisitions that they have  persuaded several leading artists to hand over their works for  free to maintain the collections.
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A new charity, United States Artists, will announce Tuesday an ambitious plan to provide support to working artists, starting with a grant program that will be one of the most generous in existence.
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Britain's art heritage is draining away and its museums can no longer compete against foreign rivals in bidding for old masters, research revealed on Friday.
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The new government of President Nicolas Sarkozy is pondering whether to allow free access to the permanent collections of major French museums.
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Communities and schools are forging ahead with projects to create and improve green spaces throughout the North-East.   The Big Lottery Fund has handed out grants worth a total of pounds 181,010 to grassroots organisations to transform local spaces for the benefit of people and wildlife.
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Britain's prestigious Tate galleries are so short of money to buy new acquisitions that they have persuaded several leading artists to hand over their works for free to maintain the collections.
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Multi-millionaire English artist Damien Hirst said on Thursday he was donating four major works to Britain's Tate Gallery, including a sliced and pickled cow and calf.
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In a move hailed by arts leaders across Massachusetts, the state's new Cultural Facilities Fund yesterday allocated an unprecedented $16.7 million worth of grants for building projects to more than 60 arts and cultural organizations throughout the state. But noticeably absent from the list of recipients was the Citi Performing Arts Center.