The £100 million ($164 million) funding crisis at Britain's Department for Culture, Media and Sport that is threatening expansion projects at the British Museum, Tate Modern, and the British Film Institute's new center may not only be due to internal mismanagement. Word has it that the Treasury is also to blame for tightening budgets.

Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw is reportedly attempting to determine how much, if any, of the government money already pledged for the three aforementioned projects (£50 million for Tate, £8 million for the British Museum, and £45 million for the BFI) can be delayed until 2011 — a move that would push those amounts to the next round of government spending and thus leave them dependent on the next election result. Reports also suggest that the British Museum's proposed expansion, which last week was surprisingly rejected by Camden Council, has fallen out of favor with the government.

Read more at the Guardian.