WE’RE the only museum in the UK dedicated to stained glass,” the Stained Glass Museum’s deputy curator Emily Allen explains. “So often when we see stained glass in churches or civic buildings, we are

From dilapidated cottages to the site of a notorious nuclear disaster, what is behind the longing to seek out abandoned places, asks Katie Scott

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

When I read the itinerary for a recent trip to Texas, my heart sank when I realised that an entire afternoon was scheduled in the Kimbell Art Museum, in Fort Worth. I’m no art connoisseur. In fact, it

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Cecil and his pug dog in his indoor ...