Two new exhibitions bringing to life the story of King Richard III will open tomorrow following the monarch's remains being discovered under a council...

If you enjoy photography, set aside plenty of time to visit the Portuguese Center for Photography and make sure you visit the library, which is well-stocked with international books and magazines that you can browse for as long as you want.

A collection of gold and silver antiques worth millions of pounds has been donated to the Ashmolean Museum. Around 500 objects, which belonged to a...

Public art, specifically, has always provided humanity with a direct line through history, allowing us to connect with spirits of past generations. From classic structures like France's Arc de Triomphe to Robert Indiana's cherished contemporary LOVE sculptures.

Many emails now being created, and thus potentially archived by libraries, are the contemporary equivalent not of paper letters, but of phone calls - which, with few exceptions, were unrecorded, and really were lost to history.

Around 90 new pieces of gold and silver have been unearthed in the field where the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure was found three years a...

A hand-drawn plan of the Titanic that sold for more than £200,000 is to go on display in Belfast, it was revealed today. The 33-foot (10 metre) dr...

The great inevitability has been inspiring art and literature for centuries. Yet despite all the pickled sharks in tanks and Shakespearean sonnets,...

Victorian illustrations of animals and biology spoke of wonder and new discovery, but now they're more the fodder of dusty old museums. However, a...

The Titanic has been poignantly brought back to life – more than 100 years after she sank in one of the greatest stories of all time. The iconic ...

What do you do every day to make you superhuman? Put on a batsuit? Maybe wear glasses? Or take the contraceptive pill? Wellcome Collection's lates...

When we set out to reinvent our Roman gallery through the eyes of young Londoners we knew we had an interesting journey ahead of us.

Think 'Titanic', and a host of associations synonymous with the ill-fated ship spring to mind: tragedy, luxury, man's reckless pride, gaping class div...

I am lucky enough to live in London, where the sheer number of museums, galleries and theatres mean it's almost impossible not to find yourself visiting places from time to time.

I have been working on the Museum's public engagement since 2009; we now offer a diverse range of activities and in two years our visitor figures have doubled and we have built a database of loyal supporters who regularly attend our events.

Events like Museums at Night give us the opportunity to collaborate on projects like this with other organisations such as the local university.

At the Borough Museum and Art Gallery in Newcastle under Lyme we are beavering away preparing for the biggest evening of our year, Museums at Night - this year our event is 'Return Of The Leeches!'

Saturday 19th May will mark Kew Bridge Steam Museum's first foray into the Museums at Night festival of after-hours events at museums and galleries.