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Martin Creed talks art, music and psychotherapy ahead of Museums at Night at the Freud Museum
Ahead of his Museums at Night appearance at the Freud Museum in London, Martin Creed reveals to Culture24's Mark Sheerin why he is big fan of Freud.
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Jets turned off after three decades as Mary Rose Museum prepares to dazzle Portsmouth
The continuous spray which has protected the timbers of the Mary Rose for three decades has been turned off ahead of a five-year drying-out process for the famous ship.
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Read all About it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the Long Nineteenth Century
Taken from Anglo-Spanish historical resources, Cambridge University Library's new show features bandits, murderers, inmates and a gossip-hungry public.
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Museums at Night 2013: Win an exclusive evening tour of the Faber and Faber Archive
The popular Museums at Night competition to win an exclusive tour of the Faber Archive in London returns for May 2013. Submit your entry here...
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"Impossibly excited" Watershed organisers launch search for Magician in Residence
Watershed is inviting applications in a search for a magician, artist, illusionist or designer to take part in a two-month project at the Bristol venue.
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Legends of King Arthur written in forgotten crypt at Oxford Castle, say researchers
Experts say the man behind the 12th century History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth, wrote the famous book in the former chapel where he was a canon.
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Mariele Neudecker – Heterotopias and Other Domestic Landscapes at the Brighton Festival
Mariele Neudecker's three-storey show at Brighton's Regency Town House could represent the German installation artist's most ambitious work to date, says Mary Stevens.
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Brooklands Museum prepares a spectacular 1940s party for Museums at Night
There's a spectacular night of 1940s entertainment in store at Brooklands Museum in Surrey for Museums at Night with World War II home front fashion, dancing and music.
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Curator's Choice: Will Watts introduces the Scarborough Speeton plesiosaur
Scarborough Museums' Will Watts recalls a bitterly cold, ten-day excavation on a North Yorkshire beach which plugged a gap of around 60 million years.
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rAndom International line up new interactive artwork for big party at the Horniman Museum
Art collective rAndom International are heading to the Horniman Museum in London for a Museums at Night blockbuster featuring gin, music, film and cutting-edge art.
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Spiders for lunch and Nordic Food Labs as the Wellcome Collection plays part in Pestival
An infestation of art and events at the Wellcome Collection, where Insects au Gratin and Insects vs Humans are on the menu as part of the phobia-exploring Pestival.
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British Army Lynx helicopter flies in to Imperial War Museum Duxford
A British Army helicopter, seen by every soldier taking part in the campaigns during the past 35 years and only retired last year, is now awaiting visitors to Duxford.
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Museums at Night 2013: Find a museum sleepover event
From a night in a medieval Royal bedchamber to a Doctor Who over-nighter in a Gothic library, Culture24's Museums at Night festival has all kinds of sleepover events to choose from. Find yourself one here.
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Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum: Why is it so popular?
Ruth Hazard manages to get herself into the British Museum's hugely popular blockbuster Pompeii exhibition to find out exactly what all the fuss is about.
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Joan Miró and John Hoyland works join National Museum Cardiff in dozen-artwork gift
Four lithographs by surrealist Joan Miró are among a set of artworks worth more than £4 million going on display in Cardiff as part of a gift from collectors Eric and Jean Cass.
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Turner Prize 2013: Critics and commentators on Shrigley, Prouvost, Yiadom-Boakye and Sehgal
We take a look at the critical and public reaction to this year's Turner Prize shortlist.
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Mallard 75: The journey of a legendary locomotive in York
Ahead of this year's celebrations reuniting engines which now call Canada and North America home, we take a look back with the National Railway Museum.
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The National Trust for Scotland's Glenfinnan Monument gets a new Jacobite exhibition
A new exhibition on the Jacobite campaign of 1745 has opened at the National Trust for Scotland's Glenfinnan Monument in Lochaber.
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Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre Kiev entertain the Ben Uri Gallery
Featuring the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.
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Kraftwerk-inspired album made with Minimoogs and synthesizers for Bletchley Park
Having been mastered using retro effects in Las Vegas, an album of electronica is about to go on sale in support of educational plans at The National Museum of Computing.
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