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Museums at Night Report: Gavin Turk, pyramid power and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Artist Gavin Turk's occult new sculptures are among the after-hours attractions in the West country. Mark Sheerin explores the power of pyramids.
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The Fine Art Society celebrates the lost art of British Twentieth Century Murals
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.
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George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life at the Royal Academy
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
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.
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Museums at Night - Saturday: Ten Museums at Night taster events for tonight
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.
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Heritage Lottery Fund unveils small grants programme to help commemorate First World War
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.
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Ashmolean Museum acquires Millais' famous Pre-Raphaelite portrait of John Ruskin
The Ashmolean Museum has permanently acquired John Everett Millais' famous portrait of John Ruskin thanks to the Arts Council Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
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Museums at Night Report: An audience with Queen Victoria at Leighton House
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.
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Museums at Night Report: A twilight tour of the second motte of Lewes Castle
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.
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Museums at Night Report: LightNight, Liverpool's city-wide spree of late night culture
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.
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Museums at Night Report: The Horniman Garden Party with rAndom International
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
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.
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Museums at Night Report: A Victorian Delight at London's 18 Stafford Terrace
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.
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Museums at Night Report: Bat walking through the scented woodlands at Hatchlands Park
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...
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Museums at Night Report: Behind the scenes at the Faber and Faber Archive
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.
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Museums at Night - Friday: Ten tasters for Museums at Night events tonight
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.
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Museums at Night tonight! Paupers and performance inside Southwell's Workhouse
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.
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Museums at Night - Thursday: Ten tasters for Museums at Night events tonight
Museums at Night kicks off tonight with hundreds of events in museums, galleries and heritage sites. Here are ten tasters to whet your appetite for Thursday May 16.
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Egyptian make-up, Arabic dancing, beetles and Walking Wikis in Bristolian Museums at Night
Gavin Turk's Connect10 magic carpets might steal the show, but Bristol Museum and Art Gallery has revealed an exotic line-up of music, dancing, art and history.
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Museums at Night is here: the annual festival of after-hours cultural openings begins
What will you do? Museums at Night, Culture24's festival of after-hours openings in the UK's cultural venues, begins. There are 582 events taking place at 411 venues right across the UK.
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