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<p>DCMS directly supports 15 museums and galleries, comprising 37 sites across the
country, with grant-in-aid funding. The Ministry of Defence supports three service
museums with grant-in-aid. In addition to this, there are around 2500 museums in England,
1,322 of which are accredited, which do not receive grant-in-aid but are supported
by government by at least one of 16 different sources of public funding worth over
£800 million per year, as outlined in the Mendoza Review: an independent review of
museums in England published in November 2017. This includes the Arts Council England,
an arm’s-length body of the department, which is the development agency for museums
in England and supports museums in several ways including through its National Portfolio
programme. Around half of the Accredited sector in England is independent museums
with varied sources of income.</p>
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