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    • A close-up photo of a small exotic blue and red fish swimming through a clear river
      Article: Preview Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches at the Horniman Museum
      Stingrays, tetras, sculpted anaconda, replica eel stings, pink dolphins, piranhas and a chance to stick your hand in a tank of rotten leaves - the Horniman's next show is exotic.
      14 January 2013
    • A photo of a small yellow circular fossil against a black background
      Article: Preview "An eerie, magical feeling": Katie Paterson takes a history of life to Kettle's Yard
      Having explored mammoth teeth, dragonfly wings and the bones of bears during a residency alongside scientists, Katie Paterson's new exhibition is a miniature history of life.
      16 April 2013
    • Bats
      Event: Guided tour County: Surrey Bat Walk
      Guided bat walk. We'll lend you a bat detector so that you can hear, and maybe see, some of the 9 species that live here. Dress warmly with shoes suitable for walking. Go on a nature walk at night as one of your '50...
      Hatchlands Park (National Trust) | Guildford | 15 August 2013
      Tags: BBC Springwatch/Autumnwatch | BBC Summer of UK Wildlife
    • Bats
      Event: Guided tour County: Surrey Bat Walk
      Guided bat walk. We'll lend you a bat detector so that you can hear, and maybe see, some of the 9 species that live here. Dress warmly with shoes suitable for walking. Go on a nature walk at night as one of your '50...
      Hatchlands Park (National Trust) | Guildford | 23 May 2013
      Tags: BBC Springwatch/Autumnwatch | BBC Summer of UK Wildlife
    • Bats
      Event: Guided tour County: Surrey Bat Walk
      Guided bat walk. We'll lend you a bat detector so that you can hear, and maybe see, some of the 9 species that live here. Dress warmly with shoes suitable for walking. Go on a nature walk at night as one of your '50...
      Hatchlands Park (National Trust) | Guildford | 22 August 2013
      Tags: BBC Springwatch/Autumnwatch | BBC Summer of UK Wildlife
    • A photo of a boy looking through a small blue telescope inside a museum
      Article: Preview BBC Stargazing Live returns with astronomical plans for UK museums and galleries
      The BBC's annual campaign to get people involved with astronomy, Stargazing Live, returns following the huge success of last year's campaign.
      07 January 2013
    • A photo of a seismic graph within a darkened room
      Article: Preview Beneath and Beyond takes seismic upheaval to the Museum of Science and Industry
      Live seismic recordings from 50 stations around the world – including ones beneath Greater Manchester – help create a unique sound and video installation at the MOSI.
      22 March 2013
    • A photo of a screen grab of an ancient map overlying an online map of a continent
      Article: News British Library invites public to shape "addictive" Google Earth maps project
      Casting their eye over an online display of more than 800 ancient layouts from across the centuries, online volunteers are being given the chance to help update the British Library's collection of more than 4.5 million maps.
      28 January 2013
    • Your first sight in the Maudslay gallery
      Venue: Museum County: Cambridgeshire Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge
    • A photo of a wasp suspended in a yellow solution
      Article: Preview 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.
      01 May 2013
    • A photo of a woman and child in a museum
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: A picnic table at Eureka! The National Children's Museum in Halifax
      Leigh-Anne Stradeski introduces All About Me, the new £2.9 million gallery at The National Children's Museum, and tells us why her favourite exhibit involves food decisions.
      08 April 2013
    • A photo of a curator inside a room full of illuminated slides smiling at the camera
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: Mark Carnall on the Micrarium at the Grant Museum in London
      Obsolete in teaching, limited for research use, poorly documented and a "nightmare" to interpret, Curator Mark Carnall tells us about the Grant's wondrous office of slides.
      05 March 2013
    • A photo of a bird among reeds with brown feathers, a green face and a long thin beak
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: Professor Andrew Balmford on the near-mystical Great Bittern reed bird
      As part of a guest series from the University of Cambridge, take a look at a reed-dwelling bird which is thriving again after an uncertain few years.
      15 March 2013
    • A photo of a strangely-shaped section of animal bone with annotations surrounding it
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: Professor Jenny Clack chooses an extraordinary sea-bream bone
      The Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Museum of Zoology explains why a bone from the collection is one of the most extraordinary she's ever seen.
      19 March 2013
    • A photo of a man looking at dinosaur bones
      Article: Feature Curator's Choice: Will Watts introduces the Scarborough Speeton plesiosaur
      Scarborough Museums' Will Watts recalls a bitterly cold, ten-day excavation on a North Yorkshire beach which plugged a gap of around 60 million years.
      26 April 2013
    • A photo of a classic landscape painting
      Article: Preview Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Eighteenth Century Pace at Strutt's North Mill
      Representing a collaborative effort between curators in Belper, Buxton and Derby, a new exhibition features some inspiring examples from Derbyshire's creative history.
      18 April 2013
    • An image showing a historic illustration of winged men flying above various animals
      Article: Preview ET, HG Wells, sci-fi classics and beyond: Royal Observatory Greenwich's Alien Revolution
      From Copernicus to the Mars Curiosity rover, the Royal Observatory is about to launch a season pondering the hot topic of our intergalactic solitude.
      13 February 2013
    • A photo of three people standing under a bridge next to a signpost
      Article: News "Exciting and innovative" Environmental Art Festival Scotland to take place in August 2013
      An environmental festival will launch this year as part of a £400,000 partnership between Creative Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council.
      22 April 2013
    • A photo of a series of human eyeballs in small openings inside a museum box
      Article: News Eyeballs and wolf skulls as Museum of Curiosity prepares to open
      A new vault of "weird s***" in Soho prepares to unveil penis bones carved from human skulls, skeletons, a woolly mammoth tusk and an Ice Age wolf head.
      09 November 2012
    • Flower and bee
      Event: Workshop or activity session County: City of Bristol Fascination of Plants Day
      Take part in a plant hunt in the wild flower meadow with prizes for the most species discovered! Bring in flowers from your own garden to study under UV light and view them through the eyes of a bee. Trek through...
      University of Bristol Botanic Garden | 19 May 2013
      Tags: BBC Springwatch/Autumnwatch
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