24 Hour Museum

  • Soane Museum Appeals For Help With £6.3m Restoration Project - The Sir John Soane's Museum has launched an appeal for donations for its £6.3m Opening Up the Soane project, to refurbish and expand the famous house-museum.
  • News In Brief - Museums, Galleries And Heritage News - Museums, galleries and heritage news in brief from the 24 Hour Museum for the week ending July 27 2008.
  • Bold Shortlist Announced For John Moores Painting Prize - A bold and divergent shortlist of forty paintings has been announced for the UK's largest art prize, the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize.
  • British Library Acquires Major Sound Collection Of Welsh Dialects - The British Library Sound Archive has acquired a unique and in-depth investigation into the local vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar of spoken English in Wales.
  • Museums Commended For Their Innovative Museums And Galleries Month Events - Commendations for museums and galleries taking part in this year's Museum and Galleries Month have been announced by the Campaign for Museums.
  • Skeletons Resurrected At London's Wellcome Collection - The Museum of London has reconstructed 26 of its 17,000 skeletons for the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition: London's Buried Bones.
  • Portraits Of Six Women Surgeons Go On Show At The Royal College Of Physicians - A series of vivid photographic portraits by Jane Brettle commissioned by The Royal College Of Surgeons aims to fill the gaps in the college's current collection.
  • Robert Altman's View Of The Sixties At Idea Generation Gallery - This summer London's Idea Generation Gallery is taking a trip down memory lane with an exhibition that transports you back to the heyday of the hippy movement.
  • It's Playtime Until September At South London Gallery - Games and Theory is a summer-long exhibition and event programme in which contemporary artists aim to take play out of the parks and put it back into our lives.
  • Military Pride - IWM North Explores Gay Histories In The Forces - Military Pride at the Imperial War Museum North explores the fascinating and moving story of how gay men and women fought for their rights in the services.
  • TPYF - Public To Help Kent Archives Identify Great War Soldiers - Kent County Archives is hoping the public will help them identify WWI soldiers and their families in a forthcoming exhibition of photographs at Sevenoaks Library.
  • Monks, Knights, Peasants And Merchants - A Medieval Trail - This trail is a guide to some of the places in Britain where you can find out about all things medieval, from the monks' plainsong to King Richard III's reputation and the Peasants' Revolt.
  • Casino Royale Or Cold War Cut And Thrust? Real James Bond Stories - The Imperial War Museum's Ian Fleming exhibition packs a real punch - but spy truth is more exciting than espionage fiction: as our Cold War and WWII spy trails reveal...
  • MGM 2008 - Unearth Hidden Gems With Discover London Trails - Our Discover London 2008 trails, part of MGM 2008, link smaller museums and galleries with other attractions in the capital via easy to print out half and full day trails.
  • A Trail Around UK Standing Stones And Burial Chambers - Spring has sprung so get some fresh air while visiting a mysterious megalithic monument with the help of this trail, stretching from Cornwall to Orkney.