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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.

Art

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Museums at Night 2012: An evening with Alfred Wallis at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge

As night falls outside Kettle's Yard, Culture24's Mark Sheerin enjoys a Museums at Night soiree in the company of the paintings of fisherman Alfred Wallis.

History & Heritage

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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.

Science & Nature

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Museums at Night 2012: Polly Morgan's taxidermy delivers knock out blow in Liverpool

Nick Stockman is transfixed as artist Polly Morgan delivers a knock out blow during her absorbing taxidermy demonstration in Liverpool.

Spliced

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Museums at Night 2012: Oxford's Ashmolean, Pitt Rivers and Museum of History of Science

We sample dinosaurs, Bossa nova, 16th century astronomy and a gig from r&b duo AlunaGeorge as Oxford's world-renowned museums unite for Museums at Night 2012.

Teachers

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Timeportals website brings Gloucestershire museum collections into the classroom

Time portals is a free creative learning resource drawing on the rich collections of ten Gloucestershire Museums that supports historical investigation in the classroom.

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