Catalogue description Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Museums and Galleries (MG Prefix): Registered Files

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Details of PF 304
Reference: PF 304
Title: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Museums and Galleries (MG Prefix): Registered Files
Description:

This series contains records relating to the development and management of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's (DCMS) policy responsibilities towards museums and galleries, particularly the relationship between DCMS and the national museums.

Date: 1989-2003
Related material:

For records relating to the Department of Education and Science's responsibilities for museums and galleries see ED 245
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MG Prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017

Department for Education, 1992-1995

Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997

Office of Arts and Libraries, 1979-1990
Physical description: 70 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2023 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Custodial history: Office of Arts and Libraries 1992; Department of Education 1992; Department of National Heritage 1992-1997; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1997-2017, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present.
Accruals: This series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Upon the establishment of the Department for National Heritage in 1992, responsibilities for museums and galleries (both specific insitutions and more general policy) was transferred from the Office of Arts and Libraries and the Department of the Education.

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