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Will Trump demolish the Kennedy Center? (opens the original)
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Friday 18 September 2026 What’s happening in museums, galleries, art and heritageScroll for: Top stories 🚨 | UK news 🇬🇧 | Global news 🌍 | News in brief 🗞️In partnership with Art UK<a class="image-l
Why is Kew Gardens making tickets cheaper? (opens the original)
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Thursday 17 September 2026What’s happening in museums, galleries, art and heritage Scroll for: Take Five Hundred ✍️ | Hot List 🔥Happy Thursday (I’m a day late, apols). It’s an opinion edition.Today’s guest columnist in the Take Five Hundred is the Director of Kew Gardens. Richard Deverell CBE writes here for maxwell museums to explain how Kew’s new discounted ticket scheme aims to both widen access, and to inspire hope as we face t
Photos banned at Bayeux Tapestry exhibition (opens the original)
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Friday 11 September 2026 What’s happening in museums, galleries, art and heritageScroll for: Top stories 🚨 | UK news 🇬🇧 | Global news 🌍 | News in brief 🗞️Happy Friday.I’m typing this having just left the British Museum for my second visit to see the Bayeux Tapestry this week. I was very lucky to be invited to the press view on Monday, and today I was a fully paid-up punter, getting to experience the exhibition on its s
“Magnificent” — Critics hail Bayeux Tapestry exhibition (opens the original)
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Friday 04 September 2026 What’s happening in museums, galleries, art and heritageScroll for: Top stories 🚨 | UK news 🇬🇧 | Global news 🌍 | News in brief 🗞️In partnership with Art UK<a class="image-l
Curating the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition (opens the original)
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Wednesday 02 September 2026What’s happening in museums, galleries, art and heritageScroll for: The Big Interview 🗣️Happy Wednesday.As you read this email this evening, in central London the motorcades will be speeding into Bloomsbury, the sniffer dogs will have done their final checks, and the photographers and film crews will be jostling for the best positions. Because Their Majesties The King and Queen are arr
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