News

• Museum offers more free lunchtime talks
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is continuing its popular lunchtime talks programme with a series of five different lectures throughout July.
  (posted 10:27 Thu 26 Jun 2008).

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• Prestigious wildlife photography exhibition comes to Plymouth
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a stunning exhibition of photographs capturing rare moments in nature.
  (posted 10:56 Thu 19 Jun 2008).

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• Museum launches a new learning resource for secondary schools
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’s Learning Team has launched a new resource box for secondary schools, based on the themes of Slavery and Abolition.
  (posted 16:45 Wed 12 Mar 2008).

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• Museum staff go back to school to create a new outreach unit
  Staff at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery are looking for old school memorabilia to help them develop a brand new resource for its outreach work.
  (posted 16:40 Wed 12 Mar 2008).

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• New artwork acquired for city by Museum and Art Gallery
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery has purchased an oil painting by Reginald Brill (1902-1974) entitled ‘Byway in Plymouth’ to add to the City’s art collection.
  (posted 16:39 Wed 12 Mar 2008).

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• Grant will increase access to important collection
  An historically significant, yet little known, collection of herbaria and minerals is getting the chance it deserves after staff at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery secured £66,500 to properly document and research it.
  (posted 12:53 Thu 10 Jan 2008).

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• Museum acquires piece by popular designer
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery has successfully acquired a piece of work by one of the early 20th century’s most popular ceramic designers.
  (posted 11:35 Thu 10 Jan 2008).

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• New grant to reveal museum's Chinese costumes
  More than £500 from the Museums Association’s new Effective Collections Scheme has enabled staff from Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery's human history department to carry out research into its Chinese costume collection.
  (posted 11:19 Thu 10 Jan 2008).

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• Museum offers Creative Writing course inspired by its collections
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’s Creative Writing course re-commences on Tuesday 15 January and free places are now up for grabs.
  (posted 18:17 Wed 09 Jan 2008).

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• Museum holds National Storytelling Week sessions across the city
  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is inviting people to visit a range of locations across the city this January for a series of free National Storytelling Week activities.
  (posted 18:13 Wed 09 Jan 2008).

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