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The battle to save the Staffordshire Hoard
The Art Fund

We have just 13 weeks to raise £3.3 million to save the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found. There are over 1,500 important finds, including beautiful and finely worked silver and gold sword decorations.

The Art Fund is the UK’s leading independent art charity – dedicated to saving important artworks and artefacts for the nation to enjoy. We are leading the campaign to buy and keep the Hoard in the West Midlands, where it was first discovered.

The main aim is for the Hoard to be acquired jointly for two key museums in the region: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery via Birmingham City Council and The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent via Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

Both museums are also working with their partners, Staffordshire County Council, Lichfield District Council and Tamworth Borough Council. But we need your help to make the acquisition possible.

If the Hoard is secured, it will go on display at the two museums so that visitors from all over the UK – and beyond – can marvel at the treasures it contains.

Experts will dedicate themselves to studying them in detail – a job that could take decades. It is predicted that the Hoard will bring to light many unknown details about the so-called ‘Dark Ages’

For all the information and donation details
Click Here for the main Art Fund Site