Rip it Up is the first major museum exhibition dedicated solely to Scottish popular music. But there’s more to Socttish pop than the Rollers. Lonnie Donegan, Gerry Rafferty …
Horse-drawn carriages and trams are found in museum collections across the country. As moving objects in static displays they can be difficult to interpret …
A symbol of welcome and hospitality, this large ceramic pot is displayed next to the café, extending an invitation to visitors and ushering them in for a cuppa …
A new exhibition about British, German and French art in the aftermath of the First World War opens tomorrow (5 June) at Tate Britain. The physical and psychological scars …
Art galleries sometimes find it difficult to engage very young visitors with paintings. This example of a site-specific soft-play installation challenges that, however …
Happy Birthday to fossil hunter Mary Anning (born 21 May 1799). This ichthyosaur is one of her largest finds, a beast that died around 200 million years ago …
History and heritage are constantly being revisited and reinvented. In this case, an artist has created a 3D replica (of sorts) of the Portland Vase in the British Museum …
You’ve probably seen lots of tourist photos over the years of the 1960s Monument to the Discoveries in Lisbon – the white one with all the people looking out to sea …
This Uniqlo jumper was worn by Alan Titchmarsh for the BBC show Groundforce. Between 1997 and 2002 the programme used to attract 12 million viewers each week …
Happy birthday to JMW Turner (born 23 April 1775). The artist spent time at Petworth House, West Sussex, and plenty of his paintings remain in the house today. My favourite is this …
I came across this potty in Desborough Heritage Centre, Northamptonshire. The curator there has written a short, but lovely, label that does a great job at explaining …
Think of Monet and think of light, ponds of waterlilies and the occasional bridge. But he also painted plenty of buildings too. ‘Monet and Architecture’ opens today at the National Gallery …
This bronze medal was issued to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Manchester in 1851. I’ve compared it with a similar view of the cathedral today …
