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The London-based institution will open in November following a successful £50,000 crowdfunding campaign. Director Florence Schechter said the museum will feature art exhibitions, plays, workshops, comedy nights and child-friendly programmes for families and schools.

Derbyshire County Council will investigate using volunteers to run Buxton Museum in a bid to cut its five-year budget by £70,000. The plan mirrors the transfer of the council's libraries into community management, which was was rolled out to save the authority about £1.6 million.

Scottish MPs are backing the right of Edinburgh University researcher Dr Elizabeth Ford, an expert in 18th-century Scottish music, to remain in the UK after eight years living in the country. University leaders have said her case highlights flaws in the visa system for academics that risk cutting the talent pipeline to higher education.

Steve Lazarides is leaving the art dealing business two years after opening his gallery, Lazinc, in Mayfair, London. Lazarides said running a gallery is "too expensive", and cited snobbery and the death of subculture in the art world as the reasons for his decision.

In 1947 the National Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art arranged for German art restorer Professor Kurt Wehlte to come to London to share his expertise with the institutions. Morwenna Blewett, a research fellow at the Ashmolean Museum and Worcester College, University of Oxford, said that Wehlte operated “at the heart of the Nazi cultural and criminal elite” and that his links to the Third Reich would have been known by British and US authorities.