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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.

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The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for a marvellous May 2012

Enjoy an incredible display from ancient China at the Fitzwilliam Museum, an Angolan odyssey at the Powell Cotton Museum and annual funfest Museums at Night.

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Norwich Arts Centre photographic exhibition and special event remembers the Baedeker Raids

A photographic exhibition with a special day-long programme of events at Norwich Arts Centre remembers the Baedeker Raids which wreaked havoc on the city in World War Two.

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Long Live Great Bardfield: The Fry Art Gallery celebrates the life, loves and art of Tirzah Garwood

The Fry Art Gallery brings together a fascinating collection of paintings, prints, drawings and photographs related to the life of the artist Tirzah Garwood, who was to become the wife and widow of......

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Alfred Wallis' Ships and Boats collection goes on display at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge

A rarely seen body of work by the Cornish artist depicts his own experiences from a life at sea in a new exhibition in the former home of renowned art collector Jim Ede.

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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.

A photograph of an orange and grey Vampire aircraft sat on a runway surrounded by a team of people who restored it

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.

A black and white photo of a woman in circus make-up from the 1970s

Peace, love and harmony: Slack Space celebrates East Anglian Albion Fair movement

The Colchester collective celebrate the free festivals of their predecessors in a joyful archive show full of pictures from the fields of the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Culture24/7: All things Science and Nature for March

National Science and Engineering Week is the highlight of a month which also sees the Grant Museum unleash its animal side and Magna Science Centre take a splash.

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Anderson and Low's Manga Dreams at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low take to Norwich's Sainsbury Centre with a striking series of photographic and digital artworks merging the real with the fictional.

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Kangaroos take on the Olympics in Animal Record-Breakers at Natural History Museum

Globe-swimming humpback whales, deep-diving leatherback turtles, water buffalo horns and spitting archerfish star in the Natural History Museum Tring's animal show.

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Richard Denyer photographs Neither Land nor Water to display at Norwich Arts Centre

Documentary-style photographs contrast the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads with wetlands in Holland to explore the impact of development on natural environments.

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Robin Ince and Usain Bolt on the scene for Cambridge Science Festival 2012 line-up

More than 180 (mostly free) events and a theme of "breaking boundaries" as the hugely popular annual Science Festival in Cambridge prepares to open in March 2012.

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Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books at Cambridge University Library

"Ten mini-exhibitions rolled into one" as curators choose tomes from centuries ago, journals from the trenches and Royal sermon books in a crop of collections in Cambridge.

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National Trust reports "meteoric" rise of seal pups on Norfolk coast's Blakeney Point

A popular Norfolk nature reserve is appealing to the public to help look out for grey seals following a 31-fold population explosion since their introduction a decade ago.

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