200 years of the national gallery

Some of the city’s finest restaurants are found inside museums. COUNTRY LIFE writers round up the very best

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

The awe-inspiring V&A East Storehouse is something of a 21st-century Aladdin’s cave: a gleaming glass and steel warehouse filled with an immense collection of objects, ranging from fashion to sculptur

There are many reasons to visit the magnificent 17th century West Sussex mansion Petworth House, supreme among them is its extraordinary collection of art. Petworth’s palatial state rooms offer a vast

Cultural Crusader

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