Articles relating to: museum
The national museum of democracy on its tenth anniversary: People’s History Museum
The UK’s national museum of democracy is 10 years old this week.
Use Hearing Protection: celebrating the early years of Factory Records
Jan Hicks has a particular, distinctive memory of growing up in the early 80s.
Preserving our history: Lancashire Museum of Mining, Astley Green
As you approach the Lancashire Museum of Mining (formerly the Astley Green Colliery), you can’t miss the Grade II listed pit headgear which, like a huge Meccano construction, dominates the skyline.
Reinventing Scarborough’s cultural offering
Scarborough’s Crescent is at the heart of the town’s cultural quarter, the location for its historic Art Gallery and creative centre Woodend. A short walk through the surrounding gardens takes you to one of the world’s earliest purpose-built museums, the iconic circular Rotunda. It completes a trio of buildings overseen by a new team which has big ideas for the North Yorkshire’s town’s cultural scene – starting with a new exhibition of work by leading contemporary British artist, Annabel McCourt.
To the Banner Born: Inside the People’s History Museum
It’s a banner you wouldn’t want to argue with.
From John Ruskin to Grayson Perry, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
A new exhibition in Sheffield brings together old and new artworks to explore the world of John Ruskin. Do modern artists have just as much to say about the role of creating beautiful things as the Victorians did?
A Brine Romance: Inside the Lion Salt Works
For many years, I thought I could take it or leave it. It wasn’t something I needed to discuss.
A Taste of the HB Source: Inside the Cumberland Pencil Museum
It was summer’s end. Across the land, shop-fresh school shirts were being slipped from the cellophane and given an inaugural airing in public.
In the Vault of the Mummies at Manchester Museum
Some places imprint themselves upon your consciousness, that strange relatively inexplicable netherworld of neurons and dreams.
By The People, For The People: The Whitaker
Where can you see a tiger and python locked in a terrifying embrace, a baby African elephant and a genuine shrunken head? At The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery in Rawtenstall in the heart of the Rossendale Valley.
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