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  1. Nigella Lawson & Alan Yentob at the Jewish Museum London earlier today © Ian Lillicrapp

    Nigella Lawson & Alan Yentob open the newly transformed Jewish Museum London

    Katy Cowan /

    Writer and broadcaster Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob, Creative Director of the BBC and one of the museum’s patrons, will today launch the newly transformed Jewish Museum London in Camden Town...

  2. Dress of the Year 2009 announced at Bath’s Fashion Museum

    Nick Vellacott /

    Bath’s Fashion Museum has announced its Dress of the Year 2009 – selected annually by a top fashion expert every year since the museum opened in 1963.

  3. A R Wallace – The Forgotten Evolutionist

    Karen Jinks /

    As an artist myself I have spent many long hours wandering round museums drawing from exhibits and collecting ideas. I especially love natural history for all the colours and textures and information on the collections themselves.  Currently on at the Museum of Zoology is an exhibition featuring the work and collections of A R Wallace who was the ...

  4. Bristol Floating Harbour - Online Learning Resource

    Christian Tait /

    2009 was the bi-centenary of the opening of Bristol's Floating Harbour, a series of locks to impound water from the river Avon and keep ships afloat when the tide went out. Previously all ships were dumped in the river mud twice a day, coining the phrase "ship shape and Bristol fashion" to describe vessels capable of taking the strain of continued grounding. This caused all sorts of problems, a...

  5. Staffordshire treasure hoard goes on display at London museum

    Stina Jones /

    A hoard of treasure found in a Staffordshire field has gone on display at the British Museum this month. More than 1,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver pieces, now known as the Staffordshire Hoard, were found in farmer Fred Johnson's field near Lichfield last July. Since then the items were temporarily shown at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery where they attracted more than 40,000 v...

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