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Museum goes Beyond One Step

May 2, 2013, 2:04 am

ARTSBEAT EXHIBITIONS: Hot on the heels of Derby’s FORMAT 13 Festival, Derby Museums continues to showcase the region’s contemporary arts with an innovative new collection of works as part of their...

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Barley Beal’s exhibition opens at weekend

September 4, 2013, 3:19 am

The results of Barley Beal’s residency in Derbyshire will soon be on view. Saint Mondays and thereby hangs a tale is the title he has given to his exhibition created for the county… Continue reading →

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Derbyshire artist Kerri Pratt wins Jonathan Vickers Award

June 3, 2014, 12:51 pm

Artist Kerri Pratt has today been announced as the winner of the sixth Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award in Derbyshire. Kerri, who studied at the University of Derby and has been working from Harrington...

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History Machine takes over the museum

December 3, 2014, 2:05 am

Museums are no longer the stuffy, sterile, boring places you went to on a school trip never to return. These days they aim to be entertaining, interactive and stimulating and, above all else,… Continue...

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Derby Book Festival launched today

January 13, 2015, 8:32 am

The first Derby Book Festival, which is taking place in the city this summer, was officially launched at Waterstones today with guests all bringing along one of their favourite books. The festival,...

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Museum discovers a lost Joseph Wright original

March 20, 2015, 3:15 am

Experts have revealed that a painting discovered in storage at Derby Museums could be an original by the city’s acclaimed artist Joseph Wright and worth up to a£1million. Coliseum, by Moonlight, dating...

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Nature Gallery inspires creativity

May 12, 2015, 1:34 am

As part of a project for the newly opening Nature Gallery at Derby Musuem, people have been sending their recordings of nature sounds via Soundcloud and adding them to a Sound Map of… Continue reading →

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New Grand Tour is launched

July 3, 2015, 12:31 am

In the 17th and 18th centuries young aristocrats travelled Europe on a cultural grand tour and on their return they shaped the art and architecture of our region. The 5th Duke of Devonshire… Continue...

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Kerri to stage Vickers Fine Art Award exhibition

September 15, 2015, 12:48 am

As the corners of the carefully folded hanky fell away the treasure inside the intriguing parcel Kerri Pratt had placed in front of me was revealed – a collection of beautiful polished gemstones…...

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Carol Ann Duffy to open second book festival

November 25, 2015, 12:28 am

Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, and Helen Mort, Derbyshire Poet Laureate, will open the second Derby Book Festival next year it was announced yesterday. Carol Ann will read from her acclaimed...

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