Funding
Australian hedge fund trader gives £1.5 million to V&A sculpture gallery
Redesigned space will open in March
Louvre gets a taste of US sponsorship as Atlanta's High Museum pays $10m to borrow works by Raphael, Rembrandt and Velázquez
The money will restore the French museum's 18th-century decorative art galleries and the collaboration seeks to improve US-French relations in the wake of the Iraq War
Breaking down the maths of museum earnings: An ominous assessment of exhibition profits
There is a basic problem in suggesting that earned income can keep a museum afloat
Siberian billionaire funds $3m Hermitage exhibition tour
Industrialist Oleg Deripaska has become the Russian museum’s most generous private donor—even if his support is part of a public relations initiative
Three times lucky in Lottery funding as all applications awarded funds
The V&A, Museum of London, and National Museums of Scotland all get grants
The National Gallery discloses further information on Raphael's "Madonna of the pinks"
Still excluded from the material was correspondence we had requested relating to the final price of £22 million
The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know
The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004
The Victoria and Albert Museum and the attempt to buy Mantuan roundel
The Art Newspaper requested full information
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art closes this month
The collectors behind the gallery have withdrawn their support
Victoria and Albert Museum fails to secure Clive of India flask
Collector sheikh stalemates art export process
V&A attempt to acquire the most important of the Clive of India Treasures
V&A thirsts for flask
V&A drops Libeskind extension
£15 million Heritage Lottery Fund rejected
Libeskind extension turned down by Heritage Lottery Fund
The Victoria and Albert Museum is now likely to drop the £70 million project
V&A and British Museum join together to buy Buddha
Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund
Saudi donor gives V&A £5.4 million for new Islamic gallery
Jameel Gallery to be funded by car dealership Hartwell PLC
V&A’s spiralling lottery hopes
£15 million bid submitted for 'Spiral' extension
National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million
The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment
“Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage”: UNESCO has identified new forms of heritage to the extension of the system of listing World Heritage Sites
28 out of 60 nominations were added to the list, raising awareness of 'masterpieces' that are under threat from modernisation
Fiat ends sponsorship of exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi
After 17 years and 15 shows, the Italian car manufacturer has withdrawn funding from major kunsthalle in Venice
Art & Business organisation report decline in British exhibition sponsorship
The 2001-2 recordings reflect struggling economy, registering a drop in art sponsorship since the millennium
The Dulwich Picture Gallery organises sponsored walk to meet £100,000 shortfall in annual budget
Museum director will don Clarks shoes and fill his pockets with Kendal Mint cakes for the 150-mile trek
National Trust acquires £5.7 million worth of art for Nostell Priory
Objects sold by former owner
Victoria and Albert Museum plans £150 million radical rethink of the displays
Among the first tasks to be tackled is the complete refurbishment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.
Costs of Afghan war may curtail promised State funding to struggling Hermitage Museum
Published accounts show that in 2000 the Hermitage raised 65% of its budget
All eyes on the collectors as Cologne's Ludwig Museum opens after renovation
The refurbished and extended Ludwig Museum has opened, with hundreds of Picassos on display and a colour-coded system for requesting sponsorship
Deal struck with the Banca del Gottardo will put Guggenheim's vision for Venice satellite into motion
The money will be divided between improvements to the original Peggy Guggenheim Collection and a feasibility study for the Foundation’s expansion
The new director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mark Jones, says,“I want to get curators back into the heart of decision-making”
V&A in search of global partners
Kreitman’s donation opens Tate archive to the public
Spring 2002 to see new Research Centre at Millbank
“Turner apathy” at the Tate raises questions about spending
What will they spend the insurance money on?