A 14-metre wide film screen on the Scottish border is one of four major commissions announced for the inaugural festival of environmental art this August.

Artist Barrie West and University of Sunderland lecturer Angela Sandwith present a recycled show in a shopping centre, including the cot Sandwith once played in.

Rescued from the skip in 2010, a statue of a cult cartoon character will stand at the entrance to a summer show in Manchester following careful surgery on his severed limbs.

Formed as a biennial in 2002, the sixth edition of a playful sculpture show from the Cotswold arrives at an atmospheric London crypt with work by 19 artists.

Made by the Italian craftsman during the late 17th and early 18th century, an alluring new exhibition features 20 of the finest string instruments ever made.

Archaeologists say they came "within 40 minutes" of raising the German plane on the Kent seabed on Sunday, and remain hopeful of completing the lift within 24 hours.

The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Natural History Museum are among ten venues swapping and re-interpreting weird and wonderful exhibits this summer.

A gemstone bearing the heraldic badge of a Viscount has allowed curators to put dates to artefacts ahead of a major exhibition at the Museum of London.

Striking ceramics and colourful textile weaving from a pair of internationally acclaimed artists in a new exhibition at Cambridge's Lynne Strover Gallery.

Bad weather has hindered the daring bid to save the only surviving World War II Luftwaffe Dornier bomber from the seabed off the coast of Kent.

As the new £35 million Mary Rose Museum prepares to open to the public aboard Henry VIII's rescued ship, we take a look at some of the exhibits lying in wait.

A teacher at the Royal College of Art and Chelsea, influential sculptor Nigel Hall's works in bronze, steel, painted aluminium and MDF are showcased in Cambridge.

The tower's new permanent display charts a Mint history, from Isaac Newton's time as an astute Warden to a pair of iron dies used to cast coins under Edward III.

From mosaics and mints found beneath the cathedral to the remains of Roman barracks, Viking horns and unseen Gospels, a new exhibition in York spans 2,000 years.

Organisers in York say the painstaking process of adding lettering to the side of a 1930s locomotive from Canada is the culmination of a "labour of love".

Partly based on the Red-crowned Crane which became a symbol of hope in an area of Northern Japan, an artist duo have made a series of large-scale, beautiful installations at Otley's Barn Gallery.

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.

Curators at current exhibition Couriers of Taste, at Danson House in Bexleyheath, have received a ten-pound sack of seeds, collected by an avid Ai Weiwei fan at one of his previous exhibitions in New York.

The new show at the Design Museum offers a selection of interrogative perspectives on a fictional United Kingdom and the imaginary infrastructure of emerging technologies.

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.

Five times the size of an average person, David Breuer-Weil's monumental bronze sculpture, Alien, has just landed in a garden next to Victoria station. He tells us about it.

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.

In an exhibition collaborated on by Tokyo's Social Welfare Organisation Aiseikai and the Museum of Psychiatry in Haarlem, more than 300 works of Outsider Art - by self-taught artists from the fringes of society - have gone on show in London.

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.

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.

The Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham is inviting the public to explore the 80% of its collection which lies hidden within what it mysteriously terms the Eighth Corridor.

A vast stainless steel sculpture, which plays the sound of the wind through 20-metre long tubes and has toured to Canary Wharf and the Eden Project, has been put up for sale.

The Scott Polar Research Institute, in Cambridge, has acquired one of Captain Scott's "last letters", buying one of his only dispatches still in private hands for £79,000.

Taking to the upper floor of a Georgian mansion in Kent, artists from east and west meet in a spectacular survey of consumerism, territories, trade and exotic fashion.

Focusing on the everyday and domestic rather than gladiators and emperors, the British Museum's new show calls upon ghosts preserved by volcanic carbonisation.

Contemporary takes on Victorian collecting, ceramics and paintings from the ocean past and present feature in the new season at Touchstones in Rochdale.

Watch the acclaimed contemporary sculptor talk about her new commission - a metaphor for the resurrection above the altar of St Dunstan's in Mayfield.

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.

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.

The Hat Works Museum harks back to the make-do-and-mend days of the 1940s for a stylish look at resourceful fashion, featuring designs by acclaimed milliners and stylists.

A vast archive, assembled during 35 years of collecting by the late historian for Aston Martin, will go on display for the first time at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.

The National Railway Museum will appoint independent engineers in a bid to complete the restoration project on the famous 4472 locomotive.

Curators say Making the Line, which will take work by four leading ceramicists to a trio of historic venues, is unlike anything ever previously attempted at a museum.

Led by an award-winning artist, new photographers from six local places of worship - including Sikh, Islamic, Hindu and Jewish centres - have portrayed their communities.

A gold body cast of Olympic gymnast and primetime television twirler Beth Tweddle, will be officially unveiled at the Museum of Liverpool this week.

Flog It!, the BBC's long-running show in which the public get to find out whether their antiques are worth a fortune, is about to hold a valuation day in Manchester.

The National Army Museum has been gifted a rare blood stained tunic worn by a British officer in a bloody gunfight during the Indian Mutiny of the 1850s.

The Florence Nightingale Museum has acquired a series of ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu showing the WWI Red Cross field hospital run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.

Find out why York was one of the most powerful cities in England for 1,000 years in a new exhibition illuminated by films, cartoons and colour-coded trails.

A couple of thousand slides form one of the most unusual exhibitions ever made at the University College London museum, including beetles, squids, fleas and whales.

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.

The Servants’ Hall at Harewood House is hosting an extraordinary exhibition of ordinary, useful tools considered as works of art by collector David Usborne.

Exeter Cathedral, Northern Ireland's Donegal Square West and venues in Scotland and Wales are among the buildings to act as canvasses for rarely-seen artworks.

The Royal Air Force Museum’s plan to develop its historic Grahame-White Factory into a new exhibition for the First World War centenary in 2014 has received HLF support.