It has launched an initial appeal to raise £25,000 by the end of June. The archive consists of 85 boxes of records, including ...

A museum that relaunched during the pandemic after a £16.4m revamp has said it is struggling to attract enough visitors to cover its running costs. Dorset Museum and Art Gallery reopened in 2021 after ...

Dorset Museum & Art Gallery marks 25 years of the Jurassic Coast’s World Heritage Site status with tours, family events and talks on ...

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A museum is organising a special private viewing including a glass of wine... with the only catch being that you have to be naked to take part. Naturists will be able to peruse the exhibits at Dorset ...

A small museum in Dorchester, England is crowdsourcing funds to acquire a rare gold bracelet from the Late Bronze Age (950–750 BCE) found in the nearby village of Hilton. In a recent bid for donations ...

“There must be more works by [Elisabeth] Frink in the streets and the churches and hospitals [of the UK] than by any other sculptor of her generation,” says Annette Ratuszniak, the former curator of ...

Museum staff has said the recent uncovering of a live bullet inside a World War Two tank "stopped us in our tracks". The ...

PJ Harvey with the copy of Orlam, the poem written in the Dorset dialect PJ Harvey has gifted the proof of a poem she has written and a signed photograph to her local museum. The musician, who was ...

An extension means more of Dorset Museum's artefacts can now be displayed Dorset Museum has reopened its doors after a £16.4m transformation. The 140-year-old building in Dorchester has been upgraded ...