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This document contains the following information: The British Museum report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2006
Monthly provisional statistics on the number of visits to the DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries are published here every quarter.
Find out if you qualify for Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief for Corporation Tax and what you can claim.
This document details the annual report and accounts for the British Museum, 2021 to 2022.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Soane’s is the idiosyncratic house-museum of the great Neo-Classical architect Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837). The house still displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, models and paintings in the same state in which they were left at the time...
Volunteering boost for charities, libraries and museums for disadvantaged areas.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
An online call for evidence to inform a review of the museums sector in England
Research to understand the visitor and non-visitor value of cultural engagement at 4 cultural institutions in England and to test whether economic values for cultural sites can be transferred to similar sites in England.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This release provides aggregate statistics on agreed performance indicators for DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries from April 2022 to March 2023.
How Government supports museums in England.
Located in London’s East End, the Museum of the Home depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the...
What personal possessions (chattels) you need to pay Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on, how to work out your gain
This tax information and impact note is about changes to the Value Added Tax (Refund of Tax to Museums and Galleries) Order 2001 following the latest round of applications.
The museums and schools programme provides educational museum visits for school pupils in areas with lower than average cultural engagement.
This document contains the following information: The British Museum report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2005
This publication looks at the number of visitors to museums that are funded by DCMS and the numbers who take part in activities they provide.
This document contains the following information: The British Museum report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2013.
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