Museum news: castle reopenings and a Shakespearean experience
The latest on exhibitions, acquisitions, and key decisions.
Elizabethan
Immersive Museum of Shakespeare to open in London next year
The museum will be set within the archaeological remains of The Curtain Playhouse – once home to Shakespeare’s theatre company
Elizabethan-era ship discovered in Kent quarry
Since the excavation, the team from Wessex has laser-scanned and digitally recorded the entirety of the ship.
Major conservation work on Hardwick Hall Tudor tapestries nears completion
The project began in 2001 and has now carefully restored 12 of the 13 tapestries, which have lined the walls of the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall since 1562.
Elizabethan gardens found in Warwickshire
The remains of an extravagant but previously unknown garden from the Elizabethan period have recently been revealed at Coleshill in Warwickshire. The site was first identified a few years ago during an aerial survey that revealed the remains of Coleshill…
Urban orders: touring the friaries of medieval London
Almost nothing remains above ground of London’s medieval friaries: only the names of places like Blackfriars Bridge and station, the street – and City pub – called Crutched Friars, and the City street of Austin Friars, now overshadowed by Tower 42 (the former NatWest Tower), testify to their presence. By combining maps, archives, and archaeology, Nick Holder has succeeded in reconstructing their stories and assessing their impact on the London landscape, as Chris Catling reports.