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Ice Age returns: Brighton Museum Chilled to the Bone

Did curators in Brighton have one eye on the forecast when they were formulating their new Ice Age exhibition? Sarah Jackson takes a look at cave bear skulls, hand axes and orangutan jaws.

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Loch Ness Monster expert reveals Science and Sea Monsters at the Fisheries Museum

A University of St Andrews statistical geologist who has spent 16 years pursuing the science behind some famous myths reveals his findings at Fife's Scottish Fisheries Museum.

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Public challenged to decide Britain's Greatest Battles in National Army Museum vote

A debate as complicated as any conflict has broken out on the National Army Museum's website, where visitors are being asked to pick Britain's most significant conflict.

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Museum and Gallery events for International Women's Day 2013

From yarn-bombing in Rye to a festival featuring the launch of new book Fifty Shades of Feminism at the Southbank, we take a look at some of this year's Women's Day events.

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Museums and galleries play their part in Holocaust Memorial Day 2013

Remembering World War II and the later genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur, venues across the country take part in this year's Holocaust Memorial Day.

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Bob and Roberta Smith to tour Tower Hamlets for stories of Old Flo

The artist otherwise known as Patrick Brill says he is "excited" to find out what the Henry Moore statue at the centre of controversial sell-off plans means to the people.

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Transport and River and Rowing museums mark 150 years of the London Underground

Marking the 150th anniversary of the tube, the London Transport Museum has a year of events and Henley's River and Rowing Museum looks back at classic poster designs.

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Hollywood stars and mine heroes unite Beamish Museum community for Celebrate Stanley

A community project and exhibition promoted by Beamish Museum is revealing the little-known stories of a Durham mining village and the people who worked there.

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Portraits of African Londoners in Take Another Look at the Museum of London Docklands

Portraits by the likes of George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson join newspaper cuttings from the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the London, Sugar and Slavery gallery.

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Guards Museum launches fundraising appeal for Flanders Field Memorial Garden 1914-2014

A £600,000 fundraising appeal - match-funded by the Government of Flanders - will use soil from the Belgian battlefields of World War I to create a "haven of remembrance".

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Culture24/7: History and Heritage exhibition and event highlights for December 2012

At the end of the bicentenary year of Charles Dickens' birth,the reopening of the London museum dedicated to him is among the history crackers to look out for.

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Heroes of Hear my Story project launch National Museum of the Royal Navy's Babcock Galleries

Building work has begun on a display telling the story of veterans and ships, set to open at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on the centenary of World War I in 2014.

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Moby-Dick Big Read persuades David Cameron to take on chapter of Herman Melville classic

The Prime Minister has joined the likes of Stephen Fry and Tilda Swinton in reciting sections of Moby-Dick as part of a campaign to inspire a new generation of readers.

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Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to Muhammad Ali: Black History Month 2012

In a year which has seen the 50th anniversary of Jamaican Independence and black athletes thrill the world at London 2012, Black History Month has a packed programme.

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New set of audio trails help bring the Cornish Mining World Heritage landscape vividly to life

Cornish Mining World Heritage have developed and published a new set of free audio trails that bring the history, people and places within the UNESCO World Heritage site to life.

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