Natinal portrait gallery: the re-opening

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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

Exhibition of the week The World of King ...

Anthony Lawrence, a New Forest artist, painted everything from Dante’s Inferno to portraits of Ian McKellen and Yehudi Menuhin. This October, Palais des Vaches presents the first major retrospective o

Exhibition of the week Between Sleeping and Waking ...

Museum of Liverpool /13 September 2025-29 March 2026 / liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Bronze Age gold, Viking silver hoards and Roman coins (above) star in a spectacular display of archaeological treasure. S