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    • Screenshot showing Samurai head armour with a moustache attached to the metal from the British Museum collection
      Article A brief history of clothing: British Museum video guide for kids
      This British Museum Young explorers' fun video guide is great for learning about clothing from the past.
      25 February 2011
    • Screenshot from the British Museum website section for children called Young explorers showing their A brief history of money video with coins pouring into a vast container.
      Article A brief history of money: British Museum video guide for kids
      This British Museum Young explorers' fun video guide is great for learning about different kinds of money from the past.
      24 February 2011
    • Screenshot showing a young man in a checked shirt and cardigan presenting a short video film for the British Museum Young explorers website all about time and he is waving his arms about as he explains something and there are lots of different clocks in the background.
      Article A brief history of time-telling: British Museum video guide for kids
      This British Museum Young explorers' fun video guide is great for learning about how people in the past have found ways to tell the time.
      25 February 2011
    • A black and white picture of an old man sitting in a chair by a fire with a ghost in the room.
      Article: Preview A Hankering After Ghosts: British Library's Charles Dickens and the Supernatural
      To mark the bicentenary of his birth, the British Library in London goes beyond A Christmas Carol for a new exhibition on Charles Dickens, the supernatural and the macabre.
      06 December 2011
    • Photo showing an Ancient Egyptian blue bowl from the British Museum collection with a design of lotus flowers around a water pool in the centre of the bowl
      Article Ancient Egyptian symbols: the Lotus flower teaching resources
      Pupils can learn all about how the lotus symbolised rebirth and then make their own origami version.
      18 February 2011
    • Colour photo of a female artist standing before a red curtain
      Article: Interview Artist’s Statement: Hala Elkoussy on Tahrir Square, Britain and Folkestone Triennial
      The Egyptian artist talks about the link between British Cairo and events in present day Egypt as demonstrated by her thoughtful installation Al-Khawaga and Johnny Stories.
      13 July 2011
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      Article: Interview Artist’s Statement: Mary Kelly on Post-Partum Document
      The American artist talks about a groundbreaking six part installation with major importance for both the women's movement and conceptual art.
      07 March 2011
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      Article: News Britain's first Gaelic museum is to open in Stornoway thanks to lottery funding
      The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced today that it is investing £4.6 million to restore Lews Castle in Stornoway as a museum, archive and hotel.
      22 November 2011
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      Article: News British Library joins collections from seven countries for Europeana World War I project
      More than 400,000 resources from World War I will be made available to the public online as part of an ambitious alliance to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict.
      15 November 2011
    • An image of a piece of abstract art showing a diamond in a sky
      Article: Preview Citizens of Culture group celebrate Polish creativity in Somebody at Someplace exhibition
      Painting, photography, fashion, business, politics and art combine in a showcase of Polish culture at the St James's venue in London.
      08 November 2011
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      Article Culture24: About Us
      Find out more about the work of Culture24 - and our new company website www.weareculture24.org.uk
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      Article Culture24: The educational offer
      Culture24's remit to promote the UK museum sector includes our teaching and learning website section Culture24/Teachers and our kids' websites Show Me and Caboodle.
    • a photograph of golden carved eagle in a pole
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: A Napoleonic Eagle Standard from the Fusilier Museum, London
      Curator Colin Bowes Crick describes the importance of Napoleonic Golden Eagle standard captured during the Peninsular Wars.
      04 May 2011
    • A photo of a young woman holding a pair of high-heeled shoes
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Abby Potter on Vivienne Westwood Shoes at the Bowes Museum
      Abby Potter, of the Bowes' new display of Vivienne Westwood shoes, picks her favourite pair and tells us about the show.
      10 June 2011
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      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Face to face with a giant deer head inside London's Grant Museum of Zoology
      Curator Mark Carnall on the deer head which has proved a "constant pain" since it was snapped up from a pub in Ireland.
      11 April 2011
    • A photo of a stash of gold coins
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Ipswich Museum curator Caroline McDonald's Wickham Market Hoard
      As the hoard of Iron Age coins goes on sneak preview to the public, we find out about Ipswich Museum's plans to save it.
      03 May 2011
    • A photo of a woman with a pair of Victorian boots
      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Liverpool curator Alyson Pollard on a Victorian lady's pair of boots
      Pristine boots hinting at votes for women and equal rights in the Lady Lever Art Gallery's Finishing Touch fashion show.
      16 June 2011
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      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Michael Regan picks three tiny teapots made by a Master of Shandong ceramics
      The curator of From the Realm of the Dragon: The Ceramic Heritage of Zibo, China, at The Lightbox in Woking, enjoys a combination of beauty and functionality.
      07 November 2011
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      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Nick Booth discusses a print about George Abbot, the unwanted Archbishop
      Nick Booth, of Guildford Museum, explains his interest in a print of the Legend of Archbishop George Abbot’s Birth.
      19 May 2011
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      Article: Interview Curator's Choice: Pamela Robertson of the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow chooses a 19th century candlestick
      The Hunterian's Senior Curator on the rare 19th handmade 19th century candlestick the gallery has grabbed for £100,000.
      07 June 2011
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