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Cycle Museum invites families to draw bikes as National Cycle Collection opens for April
Housed in Powys' Automobile Palace, the National Cycle Collection - home to a vintage range of bikes dating as far back as 1819 - is inviting children to get drawing this month.
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Scottish museums receive £500,000 investment
Twenty-four museums and galleries across Scotland will share £500,000 of funding from the Scottish government for improvement works.
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Superfood season gets down to earth as Chelsea Physic Garden embraces summer
Expert talks on the power of plants and vegetables are the star events in a summer of family activities and behind-the-scenes tours at London's 17th century Physic Garden.
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Curator's Choice: Karen Snowden on a stylish maternity dress in Scarborough
The Head of Collections at Scarborough Museums Trust tells us why a "wonderful, beautiful" dress from 1790 still looks comfy today.
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Artists in residence wanted for St Kilda
The National Trust for Scotland and Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre are offering two artists the chance to live on the remote archipelago of St Kilda this summer.
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10,000 Temple of Mithras discoveries draw comparisons with Pompeii in Roman London
Experts from Museum of London Archaeology say thousands of "beautifully preserved" remains in London could transform our understanding of Roman Britain.
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Collage gets sticky: GLUE at the Down Arts Centre in Downpatrick
Nineteen artists from Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Finland, Japan and the USA offer fresh perspectives on contemporary collage.
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Earl Mountbatten's James Bond-style gold-plated pen-pistol joins Royal Armouries
A £13,000 pistol-concealing pen, presented to the late Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur by royal family cohort Lord Louis, could go on public show.
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Jonathan Kenworthy's African influences in Six Decades of Sculpture at Pangolin London
Once a child prodigy enrolled at the Royal College of Art at the tender age of 11, Jonathan Kenworthy's retrospective shows an artist depicting Africa in original style.
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The Cutting Edge of Modernity: Grosvenor School Linocuts at Osborne Samuel London
A new exhibition reveals how, during its 1930s heyday, the Grosvenor School of Art, in London's Pimlico, produced some of the best linocut prints in the world.
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World's fastest car, Babs, visits Swansea's National Waterfront Museum
Forty-two years after its redesigner died trying to beat its 172 mph record, a Bangor University lecturer's replica of a 1.72 ton speed demon has gone on show in Swansea.
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Giant's Causeway: The new visitor centre at Northern Ireland's World Heritage Site
Northern Ireland's famous World Heritage Site has never disappointed, but an £18.5 million visitor centre makes it all the better. Mark Sheerin takes a look.
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A Centenary of Stainless Steel: The Old Hall Connection at Walsall Museum
Who knew about the impact stainless steel had in Walsall? A new show reveals a design dream created by a husband and wife unimpressed with their cleaning nearly a century ago.
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Designer Roland Mouret turns curator for Norman Parkinson's Mouvements de Femmes
The designer for stars including Victoria Beckham says he is "very excited" to be curating an archive of photos from the 20th century photographer at a former Georgian chapel in Bath.
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Photographer Sebastião Salgado's Genesis at the Natural History Museum in London
Having seen deforestation on his native Brazilian farm, acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado went to five corners of the earth in pursuit of a portrait of the natural world.
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Royal Engineers Museum prepares to open up its mysterious Eighth Corridor
The Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham is inviting the public to explore the 80% of its collection which lies hidden within what it mysteriously terms the Eighth Corridor.
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Museum of Industry honours heroes of planes and trains in packed easter programme
Medals given to Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown, the men who made the first non-stop Transatlantic flight, have gone on show in an all-singing Easter at the MOSI.
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A dark aura: Realist Painter Neil Stokoe's All Things Must Pass at The Piper Gallery
In a series of large-scale ruminations on loneliness and despair, the peer of David Hockney and Frank Bowling takes a Francis Bacon quote as his starting point.
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Curator's Choice: A picnic table at Eureka! The National Children's Museum in Halifax
Leigh-Anne Stradeski introduces All About Me, the new £2.9 million gallery at The National Children's Museum, and tells us why her favourite exhibit involves food decisions.
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Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer at the Barbican
Taken from hundreds of books retrieved from a bookshop in his native Vancouver, Geoffrey Farmer's mini-world sees hundreds of hand puppets invade the Barbican's Curve.
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