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BY Culture24
22.06.2016
The great British seaside museum collections come together for Seaside Heritage project
An exciting new project is bringing together museums with collections that tell the story of the great British seaside A detail of a 1933 postcard from the collection of Manx National Heritage ©...
Museo de Chiclana
15.06.2016
La Pieza del Mes en el Museo de Chiclana
El día 14 de este mes de junio ha sido presentada ante los medios de comunicación local la nueva Pieza del Mes. La presentación corrió a cargo de la delegada de Cultura Pepa Vela y el director del...
BY Culture24
15.06.2016
Getting ready for action: Veteran recalls D-Day as piece from huge ocean pipe is revealed in Hampshire
A remnant from PLUTO, the huge World War Two underwater pipeline, will be shown to the public near the site where it once supplied petrol to the Allied armies © Hampshire County Council The mile of...
BY Culture24
16.06.2016
Daydreaming with Kubrick: Big-name Somerset House exhibition to reinterpret Stanley Kubrick's career
From a taxidermied snake by Polly Morgan to new music from Mick Jones, Beth Orton and Jarvis Cocker, a new exhibition will summon the spirit of Stanley Kubrick © Warner Bros Pictures A corridor...
BY Culture24
14.06.2016
A drunken orgy and Zeus's sons: Mat Collishaw's Folly at a pond and banqueting house in Yorkshire
Set near Ripon in Yorkshire, Mat Collishaw's pair of new installations are set in a banqueting house and over a pond Wild partying and peace collide in Mat Collishaw's Folly at a World Heritage Site...
BY Culture24
15.06.2016
Object of the Week: A Bronze Age man's pot found in a deep burial pit in Worcestershire
This prehistoric pot was discovered in a large burial pit in the Worcestershire town of Evesham © RSK Environment Ltd Found in a deep V-shaped ditch which might have formed part of a prehistoric or...
BY Culture24
13.06.2016
Archaeologists are about to discover where Henry I was buried at Reading's huge medieval abbey
The spot where Henry I was buried is almost certain to be revealed as archaeologists begin to scan his former powerhouse at Reading Abbey Reading Abbey, where Henry I and his Queen are buried, is...
BY Culture24
09.06.2016
A circular prehistoric monument built by early Welsh farmers for ritual performance has been found in Wales
A circular monument with an entrance has been discovered in a prehistoric landscape in the Vale of Glamorgan A circular monument has been discovered in the Vale of Glamorgan © Neil Phillips / APAC...
BY EUROPEANA
07.06.2016
The oldest existing Danish sound records
A collection of wax cylinders on the shelves at Statsbiblioteket is called the Ruben Collection. As a young man Gottfried Moses Ruben started working in his father’s men’s fashion wear shop but that...
BY Culture24
07.06.2016
Archaeologists might have found a winged statuette of the Roman god Victoria in Gloucester
A retired Roman veteran could have owned a statuette of the formidable Victoria whose wing has been discovered in Gloucester, say its finders This 14cm long wing in Gloucester could have belonged to...
BY Culture24
06.06.2016
Bletchley veterans take front seat as Colossus codebreaker springs back to life
Veterans from the codecracking compound at Bletchley Park say retracing their heroics is an "incredible" experience on the anniversary of D-Day Colossus veterans (left to right): Irene Dixon, Lorna...
BY Culture24
06.06.2016
Romans ate porridge, pasta and bread, imported opium poppy and had fleas at a fort near Glasgow
Archaeologists have used 2,000-year-old sewage to deduce that Romans enjoyed carbs and battled with worms and fleas on the Scottish frontier This head of a Roman goddess was discovered in the...
BY Culture24
03.06.2016
Rievaulx Abbey: The unseen treasures from the first Cistercian abbey in the north of England
Unseen artefacts from one of the most important monastic remains in Europe have gone on display in a new museum at Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire. Here are 15 of them Stone heads © English...
BY Culture24
02.06.2016
A free lunch, alphabet practice and Roman promises: Ten of the tablets from 2,000 years ago found in London
Only 19 legible tablets had been found in London before archaeologists discovered hundreds at a site in the city. Here are ten of them Tablet 6, 65-80 AD Measuring 14cm by 2.5cm, this is addressed...
BY Culture24
02.06.2016
Object of the Week: The world's oldest postage stamp, as carried in a bomb-proof briefcase
The world's first sticky stamp has temporarily moved from London's Postal Museum to New York © The Postal Museum Only a handful of sheets of the world’s first stamp, the Penny Black, exist anywhere...
BY Culture24
01.06.2016
Marilyn Monroe's "vulnerability and humanity" shown in glittering display of personal items on star's 90th birthday
On what would have been Marilyn Monroe's 90th birthday, curators say items from her collection suggest she was a poet who wanted to write a book A London exhibition of her personal items suggests...
BY Culture24
01.06.2016
"It's absolutely incredible": Britain's oldest hand-written invoice found among hundreds of Roman tablets in London
Invoices, disputes, food orders and London's wax-etched messages from the north have been discovered in an incredible haul of writing tablets This tablet is the earliest readable tablet, found in a...
BY Culture24
31.05.2016
Lower half of Parliamentarian captain's Civil War body could be exhumed by archaeologists at Nottingham Castle
There is a "strong likelihood" that a body found at Nottingham Castle belonged to a Captain killed in a post-siege fight between prisoners and Parliamentarians The second half of the body of a Civil...
BY Culture24
27.05.2016
Post-punk London, wrestling and strippers: See the shots of photographer Dick Scott-Stewart
Wrestlers, strippers and cross-dressers feature among Dick Scott-Stewart's works - as a new Museum of London display demonstrates Vicky Scott's Fantasy Photography (1982) © Dick Scott-Stewart...
Museo de Chiclana
26.05.2016
