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Longlist for Art Fund Prize Museum of the Year 2012 announced
Some of the major new venues around the country - including Bristol's M Shed, the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, Margate's Turner Contemporary and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - are named on the longlist for the £100,000 prize.
Rachael Lomas looks at the Falklands in new show at Weston-super-Mare Helicopter Museum
Based on interviews with veterans, West Country artist Rachael Lomas uses drawings and imagery to re-interpret the Falklands conflict in Inscape Landscape.
Simon Martin's Louis Ghost Chair installation premieres at The Holburne Museum in Bath
Installation artist Simon Martin's latest short film, Louis Ghost Chair, uses the original design of the Louis XV chair as a starting point before looking at its modern reinterpretations.
Red House Museum in Christchurch to host Forgotten Roman Emperor and Together shows
Screens tell the dastardly stories of late 3rd century Roman Britain, accompanied by works from an award-winning local wood sculpture and ethereal painting duo.
Haroon Mirza brings the noise with sound installations at Bristol's Spike Island
A new show at Spike Island titled /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| finds the young Sheffield-based artist Haroon Mirza building on successes of 2011.
Bygone adverts prove So Near and yet so Far at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro
Guinness for vitality, Oxo for strength, cigarettes for a sore throat and tonic wine for your nerves - a show of 1920s adverts in Cornwall makes some entertaining claims.
National Maritime Museum asks public to help build Prehistoric boat in five months
Cornwall's maritime epicentre and Bronze Age experts from the University of Expert have launched a daring bid to recreate the oldest boat ever found in Western Europe.
David Blandy offers journey to the far East in Passage of the Soul at Exeter Phoenix
The performance and video artist reflects on Japanese culture, family history, manga, kung fu and Street Fighter arcade games, building on his fascination with the East.
Tank Museum acquires replica Mark IV World War I Tank from Steven Spielberg's War Horse
The Tank Museum, at Bovington in Dorset, has acquired the working replica World War One tank used in the hit Stephen Spielberg film War Horse.
Peter Burke brings Californian inspiration to Bath for Earthworks at Victoria Gallery
Sculptor Peter Burke found the inspiration for his new show in the mountains of California, but the soils he's used have a distinctly Somerset look to them.
Museum Show Part 2 brings back 11 semi-fictional institutions to Arnolfini Bristol
Vicente Razo, Simon Fujiwara and Hu Xiangqian are among the artists who double up as museum directors for the second part of a playful survey at the Arnolfini.
The Culture24 Guide to Winter Ice Rinks 2011
If you're hankering after the winter weather that hasn't appeared yet this year, why not visit one of the seasonal ice rinks popping up across the country for a fix of the white stuff? This is......
Public given nine days to see amazing Bronze Age hoard in latest Wiltshire jackpot
Archaeology fans will be given an exclusive glimpse of one of the largest Bronze Age hoards ever found in the UK, featuring more than 100 copper alloy objects including axes, heads, chisels, sickles, ......
Tate St Ives holds major show of abstract painting from the 1960s to present
Andy Warhol, Bridget Riley and Gerhard Richter all figure in a new celebration of the past, present and possible future of abstraction.
BBC Two Cockleshell Heroes research reveals "tangled web of rivalry and competition"
A documentary fronted by former Royal Marine Paddy Ashdown on BBC Two will tell an untold story of the soldiers who took part in one of World War II's most daring raids.
