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Great North Museum: £26m Flagship Destination Opens

Newcastle’s Great North Museum, a new £26million flagship attraction for the region, opens its doors to the public on Saturday 23 May. Highlights include Living Planet - a spectacular double-height gallery with animals from around the world; an interactive model displaying exhibits from the length of Hadrian’s Wall; and a life-size replica T. rex skeleton.

Casson Mann Retrospective

Casson Mann are a team of designers dedicated to the delivery of innovative projects. They have worked with many of the major national museums in the UK and have created some benchmark galleries including the British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wellcome Wing Galleries at the Science Museum and the Churchill Museum for the Imperial War Museum.

Medieval & Renaissance Galleries Monograph

The V&A’s £30 million Medieval & Renaissance Galleries mark the completion of the first phase of the Museum’s £120 million Future Plan transformation. The new galleries are the biggest project the V&A has undertaken since the British Galleries opened in 2001 and have been seven years in the making. Ten new galleries, occupying the entire south east wing of the Museum and covering over 35,000sq ft, display 1800 objects from the V&A’s collection of medieval and Renaissance treasures.

Jewish Museum: Cultural Community

The Jewish Museum London has reopened after a £10 million transformation creating a landmark museum that celebrates Jewish life and cultural diversity. Its new displays and exhibitions tell the story of Jewish history, culture and religion in an innovative and compelling way allowing the visitor to explore Jewish heritage and identity as part of the wider story of Britain.

Kensington Palace: Multisensory Interpretation Experiment

Kensington Palace has become the Enchanted Palace in a unique multisensory exhibition combining fashion, performance, and dazzling spectacle to reveal Kensington’s magnificent State Apartments in a magical new light. Intrigued by Historic Royal Palace’s audacity and ambition, we wanted to find out more...

Art Fund Prize 2010 Long-list

A long list of eleven museums and galleries are in the running to win the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize. Includes the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; the Natural History Museum, London, for the Darwin Centre; the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry; and the Ulster Museum, Belfast

Transforming Tate Modern

Tate will shortly start demolition work to clear the area directly south of Tate Modern, making way for a new £215 million new development. The project will address some of the strains on the current building. The gallery was originally designed for 2 million visitors but current visitor numbers reach up to 5 million.

The New Ulster Museum

Described as one of the most important cultural projects ever to be undertaken in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Museum’s £17million landmark refurbishment project has resulted in a dramatic but sensitive transformation of the south Belfast building.

MAXXI - National Museum of the XXI Century Arts

The MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art is Italy’s first national public museum dedicated to contemporary art and architecture. Designed by Zaha Hadid, the ultramodern museum is situated in Rome’s Flaminio neighbourhood, on the site of the former military barracks.

V&A’s new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries

The V&A’s £30 million Medieval & Renaissance Galleries mark the completion of the first phase of the Museum’s £120 million Future Plan transformation. The new galleries are the biggest project the V&A has undertaken since the British Galleries opened in 2001 and have been seven years in the making. Ten new galleries, occupying the entire south east wing of the Museum, display 1800 objects from the V&A’s collection of medieval and Renaissance treasures.

Oxford First: Ashmolean's £61m Transformation

The new building will provide the Ashmolean with 100% more display space. It comprises 39 new galleries, including 4 temporary exhibition galleries, a new education centre, state-of-the-art conservation studios, and Oxford’s first rooftop restaurant. In the Cockerell Building, the newly refurbished galleries of Western Art will reopen after 10 months of closure.

Metamorphosis: The New Darwin Centre

Get ready to experience the Natural History Museum’s metamorphosis when the landmark new Darwin Centre opens to the public on 15 September 2009. One of the highlights will be Cocoon, a 65-metre-long, eight-storey-high cocoon at the heart of the building. Here for the first time you'll see into the hidden world of scientific research, where real Museum scientists work on cutting-edge research.

Special Feature: OPERA Retrospective

OPERA works in a broad range of architectural projects. Their portfolio contains several large-scale museum interiors and major exhibition designs, including: Museum Twentse Welle, Enschede; National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden; Museum of World Culture, Göteborg

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