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Letter written by Captain Scott as he lay dying in Antarctic to go on show at Polar Museum
The Scott Polar Research Institute, in Cambridge, has acquired one of Captain Scott's "last letters", buying one of his only dispatches still in private hands for £79,000.
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Roman Emperor Caracalla returns to Chester in Grosvenor Museum bust
A pugnacious marble sculpture of a would-be Scottish invader, based on a version held at the Museo Archaeologico in Naples, has gone on display in Chester.
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Artist's Statement: Paul Robinson on new show Redacted at Cork Street
The photographer explains how his inspirations moved from the likes of Helmut Newton and Henri Cartier-Bresson to Francis Bacon and Otto Dix.
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In Pictures: Ten museums compete for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2013
From Hepworth to Pembrokeshir, here's what the ten museum vying for the £100,000 prize have to say for themselves this year.
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Edinburgh Art Festival celebrates tenth birthday in style with strong line-up across city
As the hotly-anticipated annual visual arts festival in Edinburgh announces its line-up for this August, Director Sorcha Carey tells us about one or two shows to look out for.
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Three new artists star in The World of Extraordinary Objects at October Gallery
Rising talents Remy Jungerman, Jukhee Kwon and Gyeong Yoon introduce illuminating works in a display also featuring pieces by Gérard Quenum and William S Burroughs.
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Curator's Choice: Amber Druce picks a tomb painting from Pharaoh: Reborn
Dozens of watercolour recordings of tomb decorations from Ancient Egypt are about to go on show at the city's Museum and Art Gallery. We find out about one of them.
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Artist's Statement: Laura Morrison talks about her piece in Derry City of Culture
The Goldsmiths graduate and emerging artist explores her monumental plasticine relief which is part of a joint show at Derry-Londonderry's Void gallery.
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Museums at Night 2013: After hours Science and Nature museum events
Next month's festival of late night cultural openings, Museums at Night 2013, features plenty of science-themed museum events; here's a taster of some of the best.
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Al Weiwei and co chart Chinoiserie in Couriers of Taste at Danson House, Bexleyheath
Taking to the upper floor of a Georgian mansion in Kent, artists from east and west meet in a spectacular survey of consumerism, territories, trade and exotic fashion.
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Laura Morrison and Maite Zabala impress and perplex at Void, Derry-Londonderry
Two recent graduates from the MFA course at Goldsmiths translate well to Northern Ireland with equal servings of catastprophe and mystery.
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Coventry Transport Museum to transform Old Grammar School with £4.6 million
Organisers at Coventry's popular Transport Museum say they will create a "world-class" museum and community centre after winning Heritage Lottery Fund backing.
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Culture24/7: Tom Daley, Dorothy Wordsworth and the Prince of Wales make History
There are Secrets of the Royal Bedchambers and Olympic flashbacks in London. It's also Beamish's birthday, and Arbeia Fort and Museum, in South Shields, is back open.
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Culture24/7: top art exhibitions to see around the UK in April 2013
With shows from Glasgow to Eastbourne and all points between, April is as good a month as any to get out and about for art.
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Curator's Choice: Paul Doherty on the belt worn by his father on Bloody Sunday
The taxi driver and guide at the Free Derry Museum in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, explains why one of the resident exhibits is of great personal importance to him.
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Science Culture24/7: Seismic stations, liposuction fat and insect eating for April 2013
Bones in Coventry, pests in London, steel science in Sheffield and rumbles and groans in Manchester in our round-up of some Science and Nature highlights this month.
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Museums at Night 2013: Evening history and heritage events
A taster of evening events lining up at museums and heritage sites over the weekend of May 16 - 19.
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Visual arts to marvel at in Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013
Three galleries, off site projects, a major show by Willie Doherty and the 2013 Turner Prize are just a few of the draws in Northern Ireland's second city.
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Record breaking Mallard in A4 reunion at York's National Railway Museum
The locomotive which narrowly notched the world steam speed record in 1938 will be reunited with its six surviving A4 class engines as part of a celebratory season in York.
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Touchstones Rochdale welcomes Penny Leaver Green, Natasha Daintry and Sea shows
Contemporary takes on Victorian collecting, ceramics and paintings from the ocean past and present feature in the new season at Touchstones in Rochdale.
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