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BY Culture24 13.02.2016

"Without doubt, Chester is the city of love": Is the walled city the place to be this Valentine's Day?

Could Chester be the city of love? Historians in the city think so - and have put some shiny ancient symbols on display for Valentine's Day Love is in the air on this Chester street © Courtesy...
BY Culture24 12.02.2016

All aboard the Mail Rail: A horse's sick note and cats with pensions at the £26 million Postal Museum

When the Postal Museum’s new home opens in Clerkenwell next year, the ride next door – Mail Rail, a one-mile loop through the disused miniature tunnels of what was the world’s first driverless,...
BY Culture24 14.02.2016

A Lover’s Trail for Valentine's Day: Lost relics and old haunts of passion

Art, letters, books, literature and natural beauty in a Valentine's Day celebration of love The Scandalous © Philipp Weissenbacher Rodin’s provocative sculpture The Kiss outraged Sussex residents...
BY Culture24 12.02.2016

El Anatsui review: From Nigeria to London, celebrated artist brings complex creations to October Gallery

Ghanain master alchemist El Anatsui counts tropical woods and railway sleepers among his materials. His new exhibition, at London’s October Gallery, is a rare opportunity to see works by this...
BY Culture24 11.02.2016

Archaeologists find lamb bone and limpet offerings in coffin of Bronze Age woman on Orkney island

Saved from the sea on the coast of an Orkney island, a cist contains a woman who had grave goods placed over her feet A cist made of beach flags contained the skeleton of a Bronze Age woman on...
Slovenian School Museum 10.02.2016

How can museums of education create links?

Slovensko sodelovanje z Mednarodnim komitejem za muzeologijo ICOFOM   S preglednim prispevkom o novih in tradicionalnih usmeritvah muzejev izobraževanja v Evropi je dr. Branko Šuštar, član IO...
BY Culture24 15.02.2016

A map of a British city in AD200: Archaeologists plot ancient York based on 19th century plan

An atlas which has taken 43 years to compile has created a view of how York might have looked more than 1,800 years ago Dr Peter Addyman compares maps of York from AD200 and 1836 © YAT In 1972, the...
BY Culture24 11.02.2016

A connection with prehistory: Artists create film about one of UK's first Neolithic ritual monuments

A huge prehistoric monument overlooking Brighton, left unexcavated since the 1930s until a community dig in 2014, is the subject of a new film © Red Earth On the edge of Brighton, Whitehawk Hill is...
Slovenian School Museum 05.02.2016

Šolanje slovenskih izobražencev konec 19. in v začetku 20. stoletja/The historical development of the formation of the elite in the south of the Habsburg Empire. Slovenes and the schooling of the intellectual class in the late 1800s and early 1900s

Šolanje slovenskih izobražencev konec 19. in v začetku 20. stoletja - v mednarodni reviji HECL 2015. V  prvi številki jubilejnega desetega  letnika (HECL 1/2015) mednarodne znanstvene...
BY Culture24 08.02.2016

The 4.5 billion-year-old space rock which can be yours to own: Artist puts fragment of Russian meteor on eBay

A necklace made from a fragment of a huge Russian meteor which fell to earth in 2013 is being auctioned by a British artist on eBay today Artist Rosalind McLachlan's necklace has been partly formed...
Slovenian School Museum 04.02.2016

Perceptions of the Spanish Civil War in the history textbooks in Slovenia

V letu  2015 je pri založbi Editorial Pablo Iglesias izšlo delo (publikacija in CD) z rezultati konference,  ki jo je aprila 2014 pripravila madridska univerza UCM Universidad Complutense...
BY EUROPEANA 03.02.2016

Japanese artist creates original military artwork inspired by Europeana

We love to hear about how you use Europeana. What inspires you. How the treasures you find motivate you. Today, we hear from Kumiko Sakaki, a Japanese illustrator from Tokyo, who creates original...
Museums 03.02.2016

Teden kulturne dediščine

26. DNEVI EVROPSKE KULTURNE DEDIŠČINE 4. TEDEN KULTURNE DEDIŠČINE 30. 9.–7. 10. 2016  VRTCEM IN ŠOLAM   VABILO K SODELOVANJU   pri nacionalnem medresorskem projektu TEDEN...
BY Culture24 04.02.2016

Archaeologists discover one of Roman Britain's earliest surviving frescos beneath City of London street

Roman builders left fragile fresco remains deep beneath street level in London, say archaeologists One of 16 sections of the decorative fresco from 1st century Roman Britain © MOLA An ornate Roman...
BY Culture24 16.02.2016

Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making - Outsider Art at Chichester's Pallant House Gallery

A selection of images from Pallant House Gallery in Chichester - a home for outsider art and works by artists facing barriers to the art world Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making features...
BY EUROPEANA 01.02.2016

#ColorOurCollections: Europeana’s Colouring Book for Grown-ups

Nowadays, it’s not just children that enjoy the gentle art of colouring. Colouring books aimed at adults are bestsellers – advertised as a form of therapy designed to alleviate the stress of...
BY Culture24 28.01.2016

Small but worldly maps exhibition makes sense of human wandering at London's Store Street gallery

You are Here, Bloomsbury gallery Store Street's exhibition of artists interpreting maps ranges from gold leaf to the kaleidoscope in an exploration of human journeys Ewan Eason, Mappa Mundi London....
BY Culture24 05.02.2016

England expects: Seven striking First World War posters which urged men to enlist

Within months of World War One breaking out, it became clear that recruiting enough volunteers to win the war was a huge task. The Parliamentary Recruiting Committee was put in charge of boosting...
BY Culture24 08.02.2016

Lost bottles of whisky from 1940s shipwreck resurface in house on Scottish island

Two intoxicating looted treasures of a secretive 1940s export booze cruise have been found on an island 75 years after their shipwreck Only eight bottles of the SS Politician whisky were thought to...
BY EUROPEANA 26.01.2016

The cat that ate the candle and the ewe with the crooked horn

This is a guest post by Rónán Galvin and Maeve Gebruers, Irish Traditional Music Archive . This post, titled “‘Miss Mousie’s Ball’ and ‘The ewe with the crooked horn’: animal-related songs and...