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Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.
Enid Blyton: Mystery, Magic and Midnight Feasts at Seven Stories in Newcastle
Revisit the adventures of the Famous Five, the Secret Seven and lose yourself in the fantastical world of The Magic Faraway Tree at this family-friendly exhibition.
Museums at Night 2013: Julia Vogl on bottles and social sculpture in Newcastle
Julia Vogl is planning to fill the Discovery Museum's 19th century home with a kaleidoscope of public messages for Museums at Night. The social sculptor tells us more.
In Pictures: Ten museums compete for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2013
From Hepworth to Pembrokeshir, here's what the ten museum vying for the £100,000 prize have to say for themselves this year.
Our Friends Electric: Beamish Museum celebrates 40 years on the tramway in Durham
A four-day festival of rides on the eight resident trams, behind-the-scenes tours and talks are taking place to celebrate 40 years of heritage railway heroics at the Beamish.
Culture24/7: Tom Daley, Dorothy Wordsworth and the Prince of Wales make History
There are Secrets of the Royal Bedchambers and Olympic flashbacks in London. It's also Beamish's birthday, and Arbeia Fort and Museum, in South Shields, is back open.
Bowes Museum to put masterpieces by JMW Turner and Édouard Manet on display
A good month for The Bowes has got even better with the acquisition of a Turner painting of the north-east and the temporary arrival of Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus.
New £10.5 million Northumberland National Park Sill centre moves a step closer
Planners have begun consulting on plans to create a landscape-inspired visitor centre and youth hostel at The Sill, within the famous Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site.
Curator's Choice: Gill Scott on bone saws and amputation knives at the Great North Museum
The gruesome details of Barber Surgeon instruments from the current Tales of Antiquarian Adventure exhibition in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Mystery portrait revealed as Van Dyck work by Culture Show at the Bowes Museum
A portrait held at Durham's Bowes Museum for more than a century has been unmasked as a work by 17th century master Anthony van Dyck..
The Culture24/7: Festivals and revolutions in Science and Nature for March 2013
Find out about aliens, cholera and sword-swallowing in London, or try Cambridge Science Festival, Space-craft in Glasgow and two exhibitions celebrating female pioneers.
Great North Museum celebrates 200 years of Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Celebrating 200 years of collecting and caring for the heritage of the north-east, a new exhibition takes a look at the work of Newcastle's Society of Antiquaries.
Trailblazers celebrates Remarkable Women in Science at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
National Portrait Gallery images of pioneering female scientists from history visit a forthcoming show in Newcastle which aims to inspire the inventive minds of the future.
The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for February 2013
Yemen, Sierra Leone, chocolate, comedy and the heritage of Sheffield, York and the north-east all feature in our round-up of some of the shows to look out for this month.
The Culture24/7: Machines and festivals in our February 2013 Science and Nature picks
From Brighton to Newcastle, this month sees extinction, a Squeeze/Hug Machine, steampunk and reconstructed heads in a packed scientific line-up.
