British Museum Acquires £3.5m Tudor Heart Pendant Linked to Henry VIII
The British Museum raised £3.5m from over 45,000 public donors to secure a rare 16th-century pendant linked to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon for public display.
- The British Museum acquired the Tudor Heart after a fundraising campaign that raised £3.5m to keep the pendant in public hands.
- The British Museum launched an appeal in October to buy the Tudor Heart and prevent it entering a private collection, with the museum saying the goal has been met using the Treasure Act process.
- The artefact, found in Warwickshire in 2019 by a metal detectorist, was processed under Treasure Act rules and unites the Tudor rose with Katherine's pomegranate, bears a banner reading `tousiors`, and shows the letters 'H' and 'K'.
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Rare Henry VIII Tudor pendant unearthed in Warwickshire field to go on display
The British Museum has successfully raised £3.5 million to save the Tudor Heart, a gold pendant linked to Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon, after a four-month fundraising campaign.
British Museum saves Tudor treasure linked to Henry VIII after massive public campaign
The British Museum has saved a Tudor treasure linked to Henry VIII after a massive public fundraising campaign.The museum amassed £3.5 million to save a heart-shaped gold pendant linked to the Tudor king's first wife Katherine of Aragon after a four-month crowd-funding drive.It launched an appeal in October as it was keen to save the Tudor Heart - which was found by a metal detectorist in 2019.In order to put the treasure on permanent display, t…
British Museum raises £3.5m in four months to save pendant linked to Henry VIII
The London museum launched an appeal in October to save the Tudor Heart. The British Museum has successfully raised £3.5 million to save a gold pendant linked to Henry VIII’s marriage to his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, following a four-month fundraising campaign. The London museum launched an appeal in October as it was keen to save the Tudor Heart, which was discovered by a metal detectorist in 2019, as it says there are very few artefacts…
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