'One of the most exciting unknown stories from the Napoleonic Wars': British escapee's military disguise goes on display in London
Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today at the National Maritime Museum
Restoration begins on rare Ludovico Mazzolino painting at the National Gallery of Ireland
The Italian Renaissance master’s few remaining large paintings are a conservation headache, but the museum hopes to show its Crossing of the Red Sea for the first time next year
‘A driving force’: show at London’s Freud Museum to celebrate the women central to psychoanalyst’s world
The exhibition opening in October will bring together works by artists including Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas
‘Once in a generation chance’: Hampton Court conservation grants visitors closer look at Chapel Royal
Works by Sir Christopher Wren and Sir James Thornhill can be observed from the chapel's Royal Pew until September
‘It destroys the image Dickens tried to create’: unpublished letters give voice to writer’s beleaguered wife
Meanwhile, a screen that Charles Dickens decorated with the actor William Macready has returned to its historic home in Dorset, UK
Appeal to save Brighton Pavilion dome after ‘devastating’ damage discovery
Brighton and Hove Museums hopes to raise at least £10,000 to conserve the Grade I listed building
The ship that broke Wordsworth’s heart: UK government grants protection to wreck with connections to poet
The remains of the Earl of Abergavenny, once captained by the Wordsworth’s brother John, will be made safe from treasure hunters
Ahoy there! Beautifully conserved, real-life pirate flag to lead London exhibition
Myths and legends walk the plank as the National Maritime Museum tells true stories of 'horrible' seafarers
Lost self-portrait by UK painter Norman Cornish discovered behind bar scene
The undated work, which was during conservation work, is going on display in an exhibition at the Bowes Museum in County Durham
From a fox to a silky chicken: centuries-old paper cuttings discovered under floorboards of National Trust house
The objects are believed to have been made by students in the 17th century, when Sutton House was a school
Take a romp through Ancient Rome’s great buildings with this handy (almost) pocket-sized book
Ostensibly a guide to the city's top 50 sites, a new publication by Paul Roberts offers far more
‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris
More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”
Saved by a pub entrepreneur, Sherborne House reopens as an arts centre
The comprehensive renovation includes a new restaurant, an events pavilion and the restoration of a James Thornhill mural
Getting plastered: major conservation work begins on an extraordinary ceiling in Cornwall
Visitors have the unique chance to see the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock up close thanks to a scaffolding platform
Smoke, fire and livid sunsets: exhibition to show how Turner traced beginnings of climate breakdown
Works on view at the artist’s house in London will reveal the way he captured the early impact of the industrial revolution on the British landscape
Mavisbank House: abandoned Scottish 18th-century mansion to be rescued at last
The the house near Edinburgh is considered one of Britain’s most important buildings—but also its most derelict
Portrait of Charles I's children revealed to be by inventor of tri-colour printing
The print by Jacob Christoph le Blon, which hung under a staircase of a Norfolk mansion, was thought to be a copy of a work by Anthony Van Dyck
Flat decorated with minotaurs and lion heads becomes first Outsider Art work to gain listed status in England
Known as Ron's Place, the property in the Merseyside town of Birkenhead was the home of Ron Gittins, who died in 2019
A major squawk-ing point: Māori parrot-feather cloak set to be star exhibit at Perth Museum
Following painstaking conservation, the delicate piece will go on show at the Scottish museum in its newly opened building, a £27m conversion of the Edwardian former city hall
The best of the Flemish Masters come together in Ashmolean exhibition
Around 120 drawings will be on show at the Oxford museum for a limited time
Shiver me timbers: AI speeds up repair of historic British warship HMS Victory
Technology is being used to create an image database of vessel—as acres of wooden planking damaged by time, water and insects are to be replaced
Newly identified William Kent chairs—discovered in a Wiltshire Church—go on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
The two internationally important chairs have been acquired for the reopening of the institution's Founder’s Galleries
Roman funerary bed found in central London
Archaeologists are "blown away" by the levels of preservation of the finds at Holborn Viaduct, which also include five oak coffins, a decorated lamp, a glass vial, and jet and amber beads
Museum of the Home's displays will change to reflect changing times
The 20th-century displays in the London institution’s Rooms Through Time galleries are being overhauled to reflect the diverse communities of Hoxton, the historic core of east London and one of the UK’s most gentrified areas
Trinity College Dublin turns a page on Old Library conservation
A major €90m upgrade of the hallowed Long Room—and its 200,000 books—begins at the end of the year, while its famous Book of Kells gets an immersive makeover
Striking gold: 2022 was a record year for treasure and antiquities finds, with more than 50,000 items reported
From gold coins to ivory carvings, many pieces were found by amateur metal detectorists, according to latest report by British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme
A new book explores the life of a pioneering Irish stained-glass artist through his glorious creations
Michael Healy’s reclusiveness belied his trailblazing role in Ireland's most prestigious studio of its kind
Waddesdon Manor’s elephant swings its trunk once more
Restored to its former glory, the 200kg automaton is now on show at the Buckingham mansion
DIY insulation and cow bones: Oxford college renovation reveals what life was like as a 17th-century student
The conservation of St John’s College has uncovered hidden paintings, underfloor fire escapes and an intriguing signature
Spectacular Lumiere art festival lights up UK city of Durham
The latest edition of the popular event includes work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ai Weiwei