Race and Identity
Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob open transformed Jewish Museum in London
Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob have unveiled the Jewish Museum London following a £10 million development programme.
London's new Jewish Museum gears up for grand opening in March
The £10 million new Jewish Museum in London is gearing up for its public opening on March 17. Culture24 gets a sneak preview behind the scenes.
Yinka Shonibare's HMS Victory in a Bottle to be installed on Fourth Plinth
Ship in a Bottle, a scale replica of Nelson's HMS Victory inside a giant bottle, will be installed on the Fourth Plinth at London's Trafalgar Square for two years from May.
Photo-poet duo return for Holocaust Memorial Day exhibition at Coventry Herbert Museum
Photographer Marion Davies and poet Jane Liddell-King produced a powerful Holocaust Memorial Day exhibition after a trip to German memorials in 2007. Their new exploration, from the Czech Republic,...
Post Abolition: Commemorative stamps from around the world
An unusal insight into the depiction of slavery and abolition through small-scale artworks has opened at the Museum of London.
Bournemouth University digitises key moments in LBC/IRN radio archives
The UK's commercial radio history has been brought to life in the form of online sound archives which will enable lecturers, students and researchers to extract knowledge from the key moments of...
Black History Month 2009 - Culture24 picks some highlights
October is Black History Month which honours the achievements of African and Caribbean men and women in the UK. Culture 24 rounds up some of the events happening around the country.
Designated collection: Wayne Modest presents the African World gallery at the Horniman Museum
Wayne Modest, the passionate Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman, gives Culture24 a guided tour of the atmospheric African World gallery at the heart of the Museum.
Designated collection: Curator's Choice - Wayne Modest in the Horniman's African World gallery
Keeper of Anthropology Wayne Modest introduces us to a sphere marking the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, ritualistic medicine containers and fertile figures in his favourite works...
Stourport-on-Severn wins Best Heritage Project at National Lottery Awards 2009
The Stourport-on-Severn canal basins project beat off hundreds of projects to claim £2,000 and the title of Best Heritage project at The National Lottery Awards 2009.
Victoria and Albert and British Museums win Art Fund backing for Middle East collection
The Art Fund has agreed to provide £100,000 in funding for a new joint project between the British Museum and the V and A to create a "start-up capsule" of contemporary photography from the Middle...
Promised Lands shown at Liverpool's FACT for city's Black Atlantic season
Liverpool's FACT showed Promised Lands as part of the city's Black Atlantic Season, a series of exhibitions and events that explores connections between cultures and continents.
Aubrey Williams: Atlantic Fire at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
Produced in partnership with the October Gallery in London, Atlantic Fire at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery takes a fresh look at the work of the powerful Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams.
Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool's new exhibition traces the impact of black cultures from the Atlantic on art during the past century. Curator Tanya Barson leads Culture24 through some of the works.
TPYF2: Bradford Museums & Art Galleries' WW2 teaching resource
Polish People in Britain after WW2 is one of the latest TPYF2 funded, free teaching and learning resources from the My Learning website.
