South West
18th century botanist Sir John St Aubyn's Secret Life of a Collector in Plymouth
Botany from a colourful 18th century Plymouth baronet is about to go on show at the city's Museum and Art Gallery.
Imogen Stidworthy gets linguistic at Arnolfini
As part of its Lingua Franca series, the Arnolfini offers a first UK survey of the work of Imogen Stidworthy. Four multimedia installations explore accent, speech therapy and slang.
A celebration of lighthouses at National Maritime Museum Cornwall
A new exhibition at National Maritime Museum Cornwall celebrates the grandeur of lighthouses and explores the lives and stories of the lighthouse keepers who manned them.
Figurine of Roman God found in Devon goes on show at Plymouth Museum
A tiny figurine of a Roman God discovered in Devon, which experts believe could have been part of a ceremony to ask for divine help to cure medical problems, has been put on display at Plymouth City...
Gwyneth Paltrow's Antonio Berardi number is Fashion Museum's Dress of the Year
A dress by Antonio Berardi has been chosen by Lucy Yeomans, editor of Harper's Bazaar, as Dress of the Year 2009 in a ceremony at Bath Fashion Museum.
Fleet Air Arm Museum stages massive model show
The Fleet Air Arm Museum's 2010 Model Show is set to attract over 2,000 visitors when it opens on February 13.
Tank Museum in £40,000 public appeal to save WWII Tiger Tank
A hugely popular 57-ton tank produced to give the German army a "psychological edge" in 1942 needs £40,000 in repair work to remain operational, the Tank Museum in Dorset has said.
Amanda Beech unveils Sanity Assassin at Spike Island
In her first UK show, Amanda Beech takes visitors to Spike Island on a nihilistic journey through LA. Sanity Assassin brings sculpture and video together with chainsaws and modernist theory.
Museums and English Heritage unite for Stonehenge show to "draw on all the senses"
English Heritage will join Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum and Wiltshire Heritage Museum in a dedicated exhibition space at the new Stonehenge visitor centre.
South-West World Heritage Sites join forces for interactive sustainable transport map
Bath, the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Stonehenge and Avebury have launched a new website helping visitors travel the historic regions following a...
Magic and Modernity in The Dark Monarch at Eastbourne Towner
Having launched in a Damien Hirst-centred blaze of publicity at Tate St Ives last year, the second coming of supernatural modernist showcase The Dark Monarch has arrived at Eastbourne's Towner...
Skeletons, beetles, stuffed birds and pickled midges revealed at Plymouth Museum
Experts from Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery's bountiful natural history collection are offering a glimpse of their scary specimens in a one-off activity afternoon this weekend.
Dexter Dalwood's "History Paintings" set to open at Tate St Ives
Twelve years of paintings and collages by Dexter Dalwood, the British artist who specialises in "History Paintings" of major political events and imagined places, will form the first major exhibition ...
Wiltshire Heritage Museum in public appeal to save German Prisoner of War diary
The Wiltshire Heritage Museum is urging members of the public to help fund the purchase of a diary written by an anonymous German Prisoner of War held at a Devizes camp between 1944 and 1946.
Royal Cornwall Museum poised for £3 million art sell-off
The owners of the Royal Cornwall Museum have given organisers the all-clear to sell a pair of paintings at auction in a bid to raise £3 million towards protecting the collection at the hard-up west...
