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A man with glasses looks at a piece of art. Next to it is a board that says 'anglo saxon religion'

Museum to share 'overlooked disability narratives'

It is looking for people with lived experience of deafness, disability or neurodiversity.

A view of the Streetlife museum building in Hull from across the landscaped gardens. There is a pond containing aquatic plants in the foreground which are lined with decorative hedges. The main building consists large glass panel walls and has a distinctive triangular roof.

Polish community to be celebrated in exhibition

The Streetlife Museum will be honouring the Polish community and its history with Hull.

Hull & East Yorkshire

Charlie Lambert celebrating outside Norman Nicholson's house after the property was bought in February. Mr Lambert is smiling and his hands are up in the air. He is wearing a navy blue sweatshirt and has glasses. The house has large front windows with white panes.

Plans to turn poet's home into museum approved

It is hoped the project will celebrate the poet's life and attract more visitors to Millom.

A sketch of a young Charles Dickens. He is clean-shaved and has brown eyes and brown hair. He is wearing a black cravat.

Rare Charles Dickens items to go on show at museum

A collection of rare items connected to the 19th century writer will feature in a new exhibition.

A prosthetic leg laying on a table

Prosthetic leg and curry among museum's collection

Museum curators have revealed some of the quirkier items that make up the permanent collections.

Dan Hudachek wearing a green jumper and glasses. He is holding a 1928 bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale. In the background are shelves filled with objects and photographs.

Inside museum's weird and wonderful archive

The museum holds more than 2.5 million objects showcasing 20th Century life in north-east England.

An old red telephone box in the middle of a field of ferns. The greenery has become overgrown and is reaching half way up the phone box to the handle. The Perspex panes are clouded and mouldy. The red paint is chipped and the panel at the top which reads 'Telephone' is barely legible.

Abandoned phone box to become community museum

The disused phone box will be filled with pictures, paintings, stories, maps and messages.

Gloucestershire

Three men are standing in front of an old railway wagon. It blue-grey and wooden, with the letters "LNWR" painted on the side in white. It is siting on a small piece of track on some stones.

Railway museum starts restoration project

The former London Northwestern Railway wagon is being restored to attract visitors.

A relief sculpture on a ceramic cremation vessel decorated with a gladiator fight between a secutor and retiarius, Colchester, 2nd century AD.

The real gladiators of Britain revealed

The gladiators of Roman Britain feature in the touring exhibition, starting at Dorset Museum.