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Museums at Night wouldn't be complete without a night-time tour of a medieval castle. Lewes Castle in East Sussex duly obliged, Culture24's Jenni Davdson went along for the ride.

Costumed drama will be at its most atmospheric in the 19th century Workhouse at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, where actors are waiting to tell stories within former schoolrooms, bedrooms, dormitories and kitchens.

Shown together for the first time, a London retrospective looks at the artworks spawned by British trip-hop artists Massive Attack during the past two decades.

Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.

Owned by the Duke of Wellington in the magnificent Hyde Park house he lived in after Waterloo, Americus Backers' 241-year-old grand piano has gone on public view.

Camden Arts Centre offers an intimate insight into the impassioned life and work of German-Swiss artist Dieter Roth through a collection of his personal diaries and several large-scale installations.

A century after Harry Brearley hit upon the formula for "rustless" steel, a renamed room and two displays at Kelham Island Museum honour the Sheffield lad's achievements.

A pigeon who survived attacks from hawks and bombs and a messenger dog who saved a city are a couple of the stories in an animalistic new show in London.

In what may be the most accurate representation of the King yet, a head based on scans carried out by Leicester Royal Infirmary will form a cranial summer centrepiece in York.

Cardiff's inaugural photography festival is also notable for international vantage points ranging from industrial Portugal to rural Norway.

Surveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.

Experts say the man behind the 12th century History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth, wrote the famous book in the former chapel where he was a canon.

A British Army helicopter, seen by every soldier taking part in the campaigns during the past 35 years and only retired last year, is now awaiting visitors to Duxford.

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.

Featuring the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.

A new exhibition on the Jacobite campaign of 1745 has opened at the National Trust for Scotland's Glenfinnan Monument in Lochaber.

Flags have been flown in Doncaster and York Castle has been lit up as part of the build up to the 75th anniversary of the Mallard breaking the world steam speed record.

Growing up in an at-times hostile West London, Charlie Phillips began portraying the Caribbean community of the 1950s and 1960s. His photos are hidden stories of life.

Representing a collaborative effort between curators in Belper, Buxton and Derby, a new exhibition features some inspiring examples from Derbyshire's creative history.

Young composers are being given the chance to write a piece for the ancient Jacob Kirckman harpsichord as part of a display linking instruments from the Horniman and the V&A.

The Head of Collections at Scarborough Museums Trust tells us why a "wonderful, beautiful" dress from 1790 still looks comfy today.

A £13,000 pistol-concealing pen, presented to the late Maharaja Hanwant Singh of Marwar-Jodhpur by royal family cohort Lord Louis, could go on public show.

Who knew about the impact stainless steel had in Walsall? A new show reveals a design dream created by a husband and wife unimpressed with their cleaning nearly a century ago.

Edinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse showcases artefacts and photos from the Prince of Wales' unusual four-month tour of the Middle East in 1962.

A pugnacious marble sculpture of a would-be Scottish invader, based on a version held at the Museo Archaeologico in Naples, has gone on display in Chester.

Organisers at Coventry's popular Transport Museum say they will create a "world-class" museum and community centre after winning Heritage Lottery Fund backing.

The locomotive which narrowly notched the world steam speed record in 1938 will be reunited with its six surviving A4 class engines as part of a celebratory season in York.

From William Wordsworth's wedding ring to inked-out lines in her posthumously published Grasmere Journal, a new show ponders the enigma of Dorothy Wordsworth.

A massive group portrait of World War I naval officers is to be displayed in time for the WWI centenary in 2014 if the NPG raises the £20,000 needed to restore it.

A set of 4,000-year-old artefacts, found in the Yorkshire countryside after World War II and donated to the Yorkshire Museum, have gone on public display in Dalby.

Working in a multitude of highly crafty forms, some of the finest artists with roots in Somerset are given a rare showcase in the county in a hands-on new exhibition.

Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone was born in March 2013 in Blantyre, near Glasgow. Events across Scotland and Africa celebrate his life and legacy.

Four centuries after his death, an exhibition dedicated to Italian Renaissance painter Federico Barocci is giving the British public the chance to appreciate this little-known artist.

A "monumental and powerful" cross, commissioned thanks to the funding of an eighth century King, is being put back together more than 1,000 years later.

More than 50 paintings, sketches and prints in the first major exhibition of RB Kitaj works since his ill-fated Tate show in 1994, plus portraits of a community by Laetitia Yhap.

Ancient paintings of the Lake District - including one by Thomas Girton, who JMW Turner considered a future master before his premature death - now live in Grasmere.

An amazing project to reconstruct an ancient boat, carried out using Bronze Age axeheads and prehistoric techniques in Cornwall, could see the vessel launch this week.

The Curator of Ethnography at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery tells us about a linen ball, designed for the afterlife, at the forthcoming Pharaoh: King of Egypt show.

A gallery has been transformed for a show symbolising the relationship between the Spanish painter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and his patron, Don Justino de Neve.

As the University of Leicester confirms the discovery of the body of Richard III, one of the experts involved in the project explains more about the king's violent death at the Battle of Bosworth.

Experts have used X-rays and raking light to reveal the amazing truth behind a wrongly identified Lambeth Palace portrait, putting it on public display in London.

Following the recent BBC series a major new Vikings exhibition opens at the National Museum of Scotland with over 500 artefacts from the Swedish History Museum.

Curators at the Halesworth and District Museum have cause to celebrate as two extremely rare Bronze Age hoards go on display after a triumphant public fundraising campaign.

Experts believe the weapons found in a pot in the area of Trinity last month may have been used as objects of prestige after finding a further 21 axeheads inside the vessel.

Little is known about the man behind this intriguing collection of early photography, but the subjects reveal a life spent travelling overseas as well as a love of his local area.

Second World War destroyer HMS Cavalier will fire three rounds from her 4.5-inch guns as part of the Salute to the '40s weekend event at the Kent landmark.

Artist Kendra Haste's show about the Tower of London's menagerie past features the nail-eating ostriches and fishing bears who once made it an imposing fortress.

One of the biggest archaeological digs of the year, at Maryport along Hadrian's Wall, reveals graves, bone shards, tooth enamel, bead necklaces and more in Cumbria.

A tenacious eight-month campaign by the Ashmolean Museum has ended in triumph, raising £7.83 million, turning Oxford into a leading centre for the study of Impressionist painting and allowing one of Manet's most important paintings to tour the nation.

Museum of London archaeologists say medieval remains found in mass burial pits during an excavation at Spitalfields ten years ago died as a result of a volcanic eruption.