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First Time Out: From baubles to masks, museums and galleries swap ten treats
The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Natural History Museum are among ten venues swapping and re-interpreting weird and wonderful exhibits this summer.
The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for June 2013
Death in the Potteries, swimwear in Glasgow, Mary Queen of Scots in Edinburgh and the reopening of a £5 million Georgian mansion in Bath. Here are our history picks.
Tipping Point explores humanity and nature at Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Simon Starling, Gerry Judah, Marcel Karhof and Lori Nix are a few of the artists contributing to a powerful new show contemplating sustainability and human progress.
Ikon Youth Programme reviews Jane and Louise Wilson film piece at the Herbert
The Birmingham gallery sends teenage critics on an assignment to nearby Coventry for a show about an unfinished Stanley Kubrick movie.
Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public
Vitality, diversity and humour are the aims for curator David Thorp in a British Council touring show which brings the likes of David Shrigley and Martin Creed to West Bromwich.
Tom Hunter finds shrines from a disappearing world in Findings of Birmingham
In an exhibition of pinhole photographs at a central square in Birmingham, acclaimed photographer Tom Hunter takes a journey back into the country's industrial heritage and his own history.
Culture24/7: Science and Nature highlights for May 2013
From the Thames and Kew Gardens to Greenland and journeys through the Earth, May is an inspiring month in Science and Nature. Here are a few exhibitions we've spotted.
Julian Wild talks Meccano, industrial history and sculpture for Museums at Night 2013
Ahead of his Museums at Night public sculpture project at the Ironbridge Gorge industrial heritage site on May 18, sculptor Julian Wild talks to Mark Sheerin about his ambitious plans.
Birthplace Trust, galleries and museums to "bypass barriers" in Shakespeare Week 2014
Dozens of cultural institutions across the country will help the inaugural Shakespeare Week inspire millions of people when it launches in March 2014.
A Centenary of Stainless Steel: The Old Hall Connection at Walsall Museum
Who knew about the impact stainless steel had in Walsall? A new show reveals a design dream created by a husband and wife unimpressed with their cleaning nearly a century ago.
Science Culture24/7: Seismic stations, liposuction fat and insect eating for April 2013
Bones in Coventry, pests in London, steel science in Sheffield and rumbles and groans in Manchester in our round-up of some Science and Nature highlights this month.
Factory Girls takes nostalgic trip through bright bygone work clothes at Walsall Museum
From dress-like overalls during the 1920s to the nylon jackets of the 1960s and 1970s, a nostalgic exhibition in Walsall collates workwear from local factories.
Birmingham residents debut in drawing show along with European neighbours
Ikon Gallery hosts an exhibition by communities in Northfield, Berlin, Bologna and Castellón as part of the Post Marks project.
Glasgow collection of Italian art spanning 500 years heads for Compton Verney
Works from a leading civic art collection appear with the Warwickshire gallery's permanent collection from Naples.
Huge Aston Martin archive to reveal letters to James Bond in two-year exhibition
A vast archive, assembled during 35 years of collecting by the late historian for Aston Martin, will go on display for the first time at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.
