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Latest
Longlist for Art Fund Prize Museum of the Year 2012 announced
Some of the major new venues around the country - including Bristol's M Shed, the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, Margate's Turner Contemporary and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - are named on the longlist for the £100,000 prize.
Art
Six decades of work by Yayoi Kusama disorient and delight at Tate Modern
The first major survey of the Japanese artist's work brings together painting, documentation, film, and installation in a show of two halves.
History & Heritage
Dickens 2012: On the Trail of Charles Dickens
From the Historic Dockyard where his father worked as a Navy clerk to the Southwark Prison he once stayed in, follow our trail to follow the life of Charles Dickens.
Science & Nature
"Most important meteorite in 100 years" gives Natural History Museum glimpse of life on Mars
The Natural History Museum has bought the largest meteorite ever to be added to its collection, found in the aftermath of a blaze above the skies of Morocco in 2011.
Spliced
Her Maj: Cartoon Museum heralds Diamond Jubilee with 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits
The curator of the new show at The Cartoon Museum in London, tells us about some star portraits from the minds of Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and their contemporaries, taken from the likes of Private Eye and the Guardian.
Teachers
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.
