East Midlands
Plan your day out in the East Midlands! Find hundreds of places to visit - museums, art galleries, historic attractions, castles and stately homes in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.
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Baysgarth House Museum brings our ancestors to life for Museums at Night in Lincolnshire
Like the sound of meeting baronets, nurses and craftsmen from 250 years ago played by expert actors in a spectacular Georgian mansion? Don't miss Baysgarth House.
From Exeter to Edinburgh, final four announced on "truly exceptional" Art Fund Prize shortlist
Ylva French takes a look at Art Fund final four The Hepworth Wakefield, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the Watts Gallery.
Fishmarket at... presents a host of art events taking place at venues across Northampton
The Fishmarket Gallery may about to be demolished, but that hasn't stopped the team from going offsite to continue bringing contemporary art to the people of the city.
Glowsticks, Spitfires, Rolf Harris and mustard: Museums at Night 2012 in cities and regions
From Newcastle and Liverpool to Bath and Devon, there are several areas of the country where you can flit between loads of venues for Culture24's Museums at Night this weekend.
Residents to create Derby Soap Opera with Marinella Senatore for Museums at Night 2012
Working with the renowned Italian filmmaker and artist and the city's QUAD, the people of Derby will create one of the world's largest film projects this May.
Simon Faithfull show of 850 travel sketches find temporary home in Leicester's Phoenix Square
Digital drawings from around the world have been sent from artist Simon Faithfull's mobile device to the walls of DMU Cube.
New vision for historic docks in Grimsby centre around Humberside's answer to Tate
The SAVE Britain's Heritage group unveils ambitious plans for the Lincolnshire town, including a gallery in an ice factory and a regenerated locale.
The Culture 24/7: History and Heritage highlights for April 2012
From Hadrian's Wall to Hampton Court Palace, there's plenty to excite this month in all things History and Heritage. Here are a few to look out for.
Caro at Chatsworth devotes grounds of Duke of Devonshire's "Palace of Peaks" to sculpture
One of Derbyshire's most striking stately homes welcomes a set of sculptures representing an important retrospective of the career of Anthony Caro.
Frank and Cheryl Cohen bring their modern British art collection to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire
Paintings not seen for decades go on view at Derbyshire stately home Chatsworth as the Cohen's look back on 40 years of buying art.
Derbyshire to get "one-stop shop" for local history in £4 million Record Office revamp
Officials salute "the home of Derbyshire's collective memory" as a major project to revamp the existing Matlock record office begins in earnest.
Chien Wei Chang installs a cellar of bottles at Leicester's New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
The acclaimed British-Taiwanese artist explores his cultural heritage with an installation piece commissioned by contemporary craft initiative 'The shape of things'.
Eye of the beholder: The Art of Visual Perception at Embrace Arts in Leicester
A collaboration between visual artist Mariano Molina and neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga reveals in image and words what the brain really sees when it looks at art.
British Museum experts show off 2,000-year-old silver Roman Hallaton Helmet
Ten years after it was discovered alongside hundreds of Roman coins and the feast of a pig at the Leicestershire home of one of the most important Iron Age archaeological sites in Britain, a......
Steel dogs and coppiced willow tree sculptures as the Ferrers Gallery enjoys Animal Magic
A playful show to spark the imagination for the opening one of the year at the Ferrers in Leicestershire, where visitors will be treated to beautiful sculptures celebrating nature.
