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Heritage Lottery Fund unveils small grants programme to help commemorate First World War

Tue, 01/19/2038 - 03:14
The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced details of a new £6 million small grants programme for smaller community projects marking the Centenary of the First World War.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: Gavin Turk, pyramid power and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Sun, 05/17/2015 - 00:00
Artist Gavin Turk's occult new sculptures are among the after-hours attractions in the West country. Mark Sheerin explores the power of pyramids.
Categories: UK Heritage

The Fine Art Society celebrates the lost art of British Twentieth Century Murals

Fri, 02/14/2014 - 00:00
The Fine Art Society in London is hosting a major exhibition bringing together many of the important murals and decorative cycles undertaken in Britain between 1910 and 1970.
Categories: UK Heritage

George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life at the Royal Academy

Tue, 10/15/2013 - 00:00
George Bellows' paintings explored the dark and dismal corners of human existence to reveal the gritty reality that lay at the heart of 20th century American life, says Ruth Hazard.
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Museum of London Archaeologists say volcano killed thousands of medieval Londoners

Tue, 08/06/2013 - 00:00
Museum of London archaeologists say medieval remains found in mass burial pits during an excavation at Spitalfields ten years ago died as a result of a volcanic eruption.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night - Saturday: Ten Museums at Night taster events for tonight

Tue, 06/18/2013 - 00:00
We're into the third and final night of Culture24's annual Museums at Night Festival - so here's our final ten taster events to whet your appetite for Saturday May 18.
Categories: UK Heritage

Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth at Oxford's Bodleian Library

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 00:00
Curators have worked with authors Philip Pullman, Alan Garner and Susan Cooper for a new show at the ancient library where JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis also once worked.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night 2013: Venues and visitors reflect on a successful weekend

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 00:00
From Somerset to Cumbria, we look back at some of the reaction to more than 500 events held for Museums at Night 2013, including appearances by leading artists.
Categories: UK Heritage

Ashmolean Museum acquires Millais' famous Pre-Raphaelite portrait of John Ruskin

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 00:00
The Ashmolean Museum has permanently acquired John Everett Millais' famous portrait of John Ruskin thanks to the Arts Council Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: A twilight tour of the second motte of Lewes Castle

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 00:00
Museums at Night wouldn't be complete without a night-time tour of a medieval castle. Lewes Castle in East Sussex duly obliged, Culture24's Jenni Davdson went along for the ride.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: An audience with Queen Victoria at Leighton House

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 00:00
Those Victorians knew how to party...Ruth Hazard has a brush with Queen Victoria during an immersive Museums at Night at Lord Leighton's opulent gaff, Leighton House.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: LightNight, Liverpool's city-wide spree of late night culture

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 00:00
Ben Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a city's imaginative after-hours culture.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: The Horniman Garden Party with rAndom International

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 00:00
The premiere of a new work by light magicians rAndom International hit the headlines at London's Horniman. There was music, dancing and poetry. Gin also materialised.
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Museums at Night Report: David Blandy's Biter: Hip-Hop and Freud at the Whitechapel

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 00:00
In Freud’s study, amid an unblinking collection of classical and Egyptian artefacts, David Blandy delivers lines of broken Hip-Hop verse to the psychoanalyst’s unoccupied seat.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: A Victorian Delight at London's 18 Stafford Terrace

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 00:00
Museums at Night created a rare chance to sneak inside a 19th century London house, complete with waiting Victorian residents. Richard Moss went to take a look.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: Bat walking through the scented woodlands at Hatchlands Park

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 00:00
For Museums at Night Amy Strike heads through the bluebell-scented woodlands of Hatchalnds Park for a bat walk in search of Barbastelles and Pipistrelles...
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night Report: Behind the scenes at the Faber and Faber Archive

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 00:00
Ruth Hazard joins five lucky Museums at Night competition winners who visited the fabled Faber Archive in Bloomsbury for literary tales, readings and rare manuscripts.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night - Friday: Ten tasters for Museums at Night events tonight

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 00:00
We're into the second night of Culture24's annual Museums at Night Festival - here we have ten taster events to whet your appetite for Friday May 17.
Categories: UK Heritage

PM Gallery showcases the influence of environment on fashion in Second Nature

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 00:00
Moving off the catwalk and into the wilderness, PM Gallery presents a journey through fashion’s love affair with nature, featuring designers Donna Karan, Giles Deacon and Zandra Rhodes.
Categories: UK Heritage

Museums at Night tonight! Paupers and performance inside Southwell's Workhouse

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 00:00
Costumed drama will be at its most atmospheric in the 19th century Workhouse at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, where actors are waiting to tell stories within former schoolrooms, bedrooms, dormitories and kitchens.
Categories: UK Heritage