Subject	Predicate	Object
DGn7fGZI	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	7jDaIhJx
	answer has answering person	Edward Vaizey
	answer text	This Department's strategic body Arts Council England (ACE) continues to monitor the effects of the local authority budget decisions on arts and cultural organisations. However, ACE does not hold information on venues that they do not regularly fund, or those funded through charitable giving.No galleries funded by ACE have closed in the last five years. The galleries that have opened are: Towner (museum and art gallery), Eastbourne; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Nottingham Contemporary; Hepworth, Wakefield; and Firstsite, Colchester.No museum service funded via renaissance funded hub museums has closed in the last five years. Information on closures of independent, local authority or charitably funded museums is not held centrally.
	answer given date	2012-04-16
	answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	written answer has answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has written answer	DGn7fGZI
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has answer	DGn7fGZI
7jDaIhJx	question has answer	DGn7fGZI
Edward Vaizey	answering person has answer	DGn7fGZI