South East
It’s Year of the Museum in the South East of England, so plan a day out here! Find hundreds of places to visit - museums, art galleries, historic attractions, castles and stately homes in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex.
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Coastal Currents 2010: Co-Director Lorna Crabbe tells us about this year's programme
We get the inside track as the highly-popular festival returns to Hastings following a hugely successful 2009 campaign.
New Banksy piece found on Sussex beach in St Leonards
A spraypainting of an angelic capitalist on a beach at St-Leonards-on-Sea is thought to have come from the hand of graffiti superstar Banksy.
Fishbourne Roman Palace revisits historic archaeological dig with 50th anniversary exhibition
A new exhibition reveals the men and women who spent nine years excavating the mosaics of Fishbourne Roman Palace in Sussex.
Surrey Rural Life Centre celebrates Thomas Crapper centenary with plumbing exhibition
The Rural Life Centre marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Thomas Crapper with an exhibition on plumbing.
Culture24 Listings Pick: Big Game Weekend at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard's Victory Arena
Giant Battleships and big board skirmishes for all the family in a weekend of free fun for Big Game Weekend at the Dockyard.
MERL historical photographic exhibition offers birds-eye view of Reading past and present
The Museum of English Rural Life is contrasting Victorian and modern photographs in a 360 degree panorama of Reading.
John Bradshaw gives Chichester Cathedral Impressions of Irish History
The black and white photographs of John Bradshaw evoke 10,000 years of Irish history inside Chichester Cathedral.
Tomoko Takahashi brings world of chaos to De La Warr Pavilion with Introspective Retrospective
Installations from a deluge of detritus offer hints at careful planning and a skipload of personality with Tomoko Takahashi at De La Warr Pavilion
Critical Mass by Antony Gormley brings 60 bodies to the roof of De La Warr Pavilion
The roof of Bexhill-on-Sea's De La Warr Pavilion has been invaded by 60 Antony Gormley-created lifesize body casts.
Escape to Wonderland - A History of Children's Book Illustration invades The Lightbox, Woking
Domestic illustrator Cassia Thomas stars alongside giant versions of comic favourites inside The Lightbox's new show.
RAF Museum unveils plans to recover preserved German bomber from the Channel
The RAF Museum and Wessex Archaeology are to recover a remarkably preserved WWII German bomber from the seabed off the Kent coast.
Winston Churchill's "the few" speech commemorated with War Rooms readings
Pictures from the 70th anniversary replay of Sir Winston Churchill's famous RAF speech at the Churchill War Rooms.
University of Brighton design devotees win £180,000 from Higher Education Funding team
A set of 18 collections charting British design from the 20th century has been recognised as one of the UK's top archives.
In Pictures: Tudor castle Basing House ready for battle after £2.3 million rebuild campaign
Pictures from the campaign to rebuild Basing House, which will reopen to the public as a history centre this weekend.
Heather and Ivan Morison bring 16-metre Ultrasauros beast to Portsmouth via Serbia
An Unreachable Country. A Long Way to Go at Aspex leaves Portsmouth's art scene dominated by a giant sauropod.
