Some, such as free entry to museums and galleries, were later copied in England.
With better tax incentives available, many owners now sell directly to museums and galleries.
The Public Catalogue Foundation has spent a decade photographing artworks in museums, galleries, universities, councils and hospitals.
Now full of stores, museums and galleries, Jaffa is an integral part of the Tel Aviv experience.
Should museums, galleries, and yes, auction houses be doing more to promote the work of female artists?
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The money will fund the charitable trust, which runs many of the city's museums and galleries, until 2015.
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The Harlech leatherback has been put on display at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales in Cardiff.
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Some of the bodies in question include the University of Wales and the National Museums and Galleries of Wales.
He has shown his work in major museums and galleries around the world.
The government has been keen to boost access to UK museums and galleries, diverting money to allow further free access.
Though mainstream museums and galleries have been slow to appreciate work by African-Americans, the black community has been collecting for decades.
The 57 Italian Baroque masterpieces were already on long-term loan to six British museums and galleries, including London's National Gallery.
Take the growing popularity of museums and galleries, where visitor numbers increased from nearly 23m in 1997-98 to almost 30m last year.
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At any given moment around the globe, museums and galleries are showing spectacular work in virtually every genre from practically every era.
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He creates custom pedestals for museums, galleries, tradeshows, events and private exhibitions.
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From emerging artists of significance to major figures in the art world, this information is freely available to artists, collectors, museums and galleries alike.
Other museums and galleries on the list include the National Army Museum and the British Library in London, and the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
The frustrated art lover spent long afternoons visiting museums, galleries and artist's studios, dealing in the odd painting by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Timothy Mason, formerly with the Museums and Galleries Commission, said he hoped that the building will "do for Margate what Gehry's Guggenheim has done for Bilbao".
Meanwhile the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, along with seven other quangos, have begun questioning whether the assembly government has the power to abolish them.
Like all national museums and galleries, it eagerly awaits a government announcement on funding levels for museum and galleries over the next three years, expected in July.
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But many of the donors whom museums and galleries want to attract can choose where to live, pay taxes and donate: there is a global market for philanthropists.
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Set on curving stone streets, the old town retains a bohemian air, and the numerous museums and galleries here are bursting with the work of modern masters and artists of old.
Barbara Lee, a national activist for women in politics, has filled her collection almost entirely with work by women partly to support artists she believes are underrepresented by museums and galleries.
On its tidy streets, cradled in a bend of the Sundays River, are more than 220 buildings designated as national monuments, many of which now house museums, galleries, guesthouses and restaurants.
The Art Fund also relaunched its membership card - which will now be known as the National Art Pass - offering free or discount admission to more than 200 museums and galleries.
The dilemma for British museums and galleries is twofold: without knowing what will become available, how to decide which are the best works to buy, and then how to fund their purchases.
Sadly, though, while the following list of the world's greatest post-war art thefts reveals that most of the work stolen from museums, galleries and private collections has been returned, many are still missing.
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