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<p>The Government welcomes cooperation between Scottish museums and museums across
the UK. While culture is a devolved matter, and sponsored museums are arms-length
bodies which are operationally independent, the Government provides significant support
to museums, including grant-in-aid funding, exhibitions tax relief, and the VAT refund
scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In line with a recommendation from the 2017 Mendoza Review of
museums, DCMS and the National Museum Directors' Council worked together to devise
a Museums’ Partnership Framework, which was published in October 2018. National Museums
Scotland are fully involved in this project. DCMS is currently analysing the responses
to a survey on the amount of collaboration that currently occurs, and will publish
a report later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Examples of recent cooperation involving Scottish
museums include V&A Dundee, recently nominated for the Art Fund Museum of the
Year award, which is a spectacular partnership showcasing hundreds of V&A objects
highlighting Scotland's rich design heritage; joint acquisitions and exhibitions such
as the Artist Rooms collaboration between Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland;
loans such as those from Scottsh museums and organisations to enable the Charles Rennie
Mackintosh exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and the Natural History
Museum’s Dippy the dinosaur which is touring the UK and was recently exhibited in
Glasgow.</p>
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