Subject	Predicate	Object
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	answer has question	hYHcpbSM
	answer has answering person	Michael Tyrone Ellis
	answer text	<p>It is estimated that together the fifteen DCMS-sponsored museums care for over 100 million objects. These institutions are engaged in an active programme of object loans, touring exhibitions and research programmes and in 2017/18 lent to over 1,300 venues in the UK. This allows millions of people throughout the UK to access the world class collections held by the national museums.</p><p>The department does not hold information on what proportion of objects in the national museums’ collections have never been on display and it is not possible to estimate.</p><p>The national museums provide further public access to their stored collections through their websites, publishing images, catalogue entries and interpretation and direct access.</p>
	answer given date	2019-01-28
	answer has answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
	written answer has answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has written answer	kFLaSQsh
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport	answering body has answer	kFLaSQsh
hYHcpbSM	question has answer	kFLaSQsh
Michael Tyrone Ellis	answering person has answer	kFLaSQsh