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cultural property

We are responsible for protecting cultural objects of outstanding quality for the whole nation, in particular through export controls and the Acceptance of Cultural Objects In Lieu of taxes. 

The Treasure Act 1996 secures historic gold and silver artefacts, found by members of the public, for acquisition by museums and galleries of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, so that they may be displayed. Similarly, the Portable Antiquities Scheme has ensured the recording of over 100,000 archaeological objects, made as chance finds in England and Wales.

The Government Indemnity Scheme also acts as an insurance scheme for major public exhibitions of artistic, historic, scientific or technological cultural objects.
Cultural Property policy aims to improve access for all by permitting and encouraging the highest quality works of art to remain and be displayed in the United Kingdom.

From 1 April 2005, following recommendations made in the Goodison Report, certain functions transferred from Cultural Property Unit to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). www.mla.gov.uk

The functions authorised by the Secretary of State to be taken over by MLA are:

  • The Acceptance in Lieu Scheme
  • The Government Indemnity Scheme
  • The Secretariat to the Reviewing Committee on the Exports of Works of Art

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Culture Minister David Lammy today launched a consultation on whether the current statutory and other legal restrictions which prevent national museums from de-accessioning works of art in their collections, should be lifted to allow restitution of items which were lost during the Nazi era.   [10 July 2006]

The DCMS has published the following consulation on restitution of objects spoliated in the Nazi-Era.  [10 July 2006]

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a George II Gothic painted cabinet from Easton Neston, Northamptonshire.  This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the cabinet in the United Kingdom. [06 June 2006]

Culture Minister David Lammy acts to preserve the nation's heritage by deferring the export of the archive of Reverend William Gunn, van Musscher's 'Portrait of an Artist', and two watercolours by JMW Turner, the 'Lake of Lucerne' and the 'Dark Rigi'. [23 May 2006]

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Luca Carlevarijs, 'View of the Molo, Venice, looking west'.  This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom. [9 May 2006]

The Government has accepted the recommendation of the independent Spoliation Advisory Panel to make an ex gratia payment of £175,000 for four old master drawings lost in the Nazi era but now in the British Museum. [27 April 2006]

Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by Naddo Ceccarelli, the 'Madonna and Child'. [27 April 2006]

The DCMS has published the following report of the Spoliation Advisory Panel in respect of four drawings now in the possession of the British Museum. [27 April 2006]

Culture Minister, David Lammy has placed temporary export bars on a number of items including a portrait of Louis XVI wearing coronation robes, a large silver presentation trophy plateau, and a Roman Millefiori enamelled disc. [20 April 2006]

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 facts & figures

8,744 individual export licences were issued for 21,340 individual objects of cultural interest during the period July 2001 to June 2002 totalling £1,148,245,473.

A total of 21 objects of cultural interest were purchased by institutions in 2001-02 after being temporarily barred from export.

Latest available figures for Treasure finds show that 221 finds were reported in 2000. This compares with 223 finds reported in 1999, and confirms the increase in the annual number of finds  since 1997- 98 (191), the first period for which figures are available.

The Government Indemnity Scheme indemnifies an amazing variety of items ranging from Pissarro's "Portrait of Cézanne", through a static model of a Ford Focus Fuel Cell vehicle, to the original manuscript of AA Milne's "Winnie the Pooh".