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Watch the video: Bompas and Parr bring out the jelly for Museums at Night 2012

Watch as your favourite jellymongers send the crowds wild by filling the site of the famous old Brunel's ss Great Britain, in Bristol, with thousands of litres of neon green jelly.

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Museums at Night 2012: A night of art, books and music at London Transport Museum

Rosie Clarke steps inside London Transport Museum for Culture24's Museums at Night and finds DJs, artists, authors and something more akin to a performance art nightclub than a museum.

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All bands on deck in rare Hovercraft Museum opening for Museums at Night 2012

The Hampshire home of Hovercraft craftsmanship only opens to the public six times a year. This year's Museums at Night festival is one of them, to a backdrop of music and soup.

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Flash, Bang, Wallop! recreates bygone journeys to Australia on Brunel's ss Great Britain

The Bristol ship will be luring visitors to recreate portraits of emigrants to Australia and New Zealand from 160 years ago and try on threads from a specially-made wardrobe.

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David Starkey's Royal River – Power, Pageantry and the Thames at the National Maritime Museum

From bassoons to bankrupt Dukes, the National Maritime Museum's look at the history of the Thames is an arresting prospect.

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SeaCity Museum brings Titanic story home to Southampton

Catherine Roberts visits Southampton for a look at the country's newest museum, opened on the centenary of the Titanic sinking.

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Belfast, Southampton and New York: Discover the stories of the Titanic online

As museums and heritage groups prepare to honour the centenary of RMS Titanic sinking, we take a look at a few websites where you can find out about ships and seadogs.

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HMS Belfast to reopen to public in May with weekend celebration of events

A host of activities have been planned for the relaunch of HMS Belfast next month, welcoming visitors back aboard the historic warship following its closure last year.

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See Scotland by Train with vintage posters from the tracks at National Museum of Scotland

Thirty posters go on public show for the first time alongside railway memorabilia and archive film footage of railway travel at the National Museum in Edinburgh.

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SeaCity Museum opened in Southampton by Olympic hero James Cracknell

Rowing great James Cracknell has joined the great grandchildren of a Titanic crew member to open the new maritime museum, which welcomed its first visitors on the 100th anniversary of the ship's......

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£4.9 million Coventry Transport Museum Lottery bid boosts 14th century Old Grammar School

Planners at the world's largest British transport collection are on the road to winning £4.9 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, utilising a forgotten building as part of the proposals.

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World's Largest Titanic Visitor Experience opens at Belfast birthplace of ship

A new Belfast attraction dedicated to the Titanic spans nine galleries, drawing together special effects, dark rides, full-scale reconstructions and innovative interactive features to explore the......

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The National Maritime Museum celebrates the work of the Search and Rescue Services

Interactive displays and installations of epic proportions help the National Maritime Museum Cornwall showcase the individuals whose job it is to head into the eye of the storm.

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Team at IWM Duxford unveil restored RAF de Havilland Vampire WZ590 training jet

The newly restored aircraft is the result of a four year project by vounteers and staff at the IWM in which the Vampire was fully dismantled and restored.

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Six-tonne Sea King helicopter arrives at National Maritime Museum Cornwall

The National Maritime Museum Cornwall has taken delivery of a Sea King Helicopter ahead of a major Air Sea Rescue exhibition opening on March 19.

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