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What’s in the Box? Plymouth’s new museum opens

The large and ambitious opening exhibition, entitled Mayflower 400: legend and legacy, tells the story of the voyage and assesses the impact of the settlers’ arrival on the indigenous population.

Painting the past

Joining the gallery’s collections is an 1819 oil-on-paper painting by Achille Etna Michallon (1796-1822) of The Forum at Pompeii.

Turner’s Modern World

All great artists need great subjects. Joseph Mallord William Turner was no exception. Although extremely talented, he was especially fortunate to have lived through stirring times.

Above left This image from c.1875 of Isabel, Maud, and Robert Routh is perhaps the oldest family photograph taken at Stonehenge. above Martin Parr’s photo of a couple taking a selfie at the 2019 Autumn Equinox.

Visitors to Stonehenge have been taking photographs of the monument – and themselves – for almost 150 years. Lucia Marchini visited the site to explore a new exhibition showcasing some of these images, and the stories they tell.

Top left Under wraps: a marble statue after restoration. top right Elena Cagnoni, a restorer, working on the Torlonia Vase, a neo Attic Roman creation that is one of the largest known antique vases. The decorations on the rim depict the Labours of Hercules. Size: 177cm x 230cm above A marble statue in the photo studio. Size: 135cm tall

Hidden treasures: the Torlonia Marbles

For more than 50 years, the world’s greatest private collection of Classical art has been inaccessible to the public, locked away while a bitter dispute raged between the Italian state and one of Rome’s illustrious princes. Now the famous Torlonia Collection is to go on display at last. Dalu Jones tells its story – and offers a private view of a major new exhibition.

Right This 1797 caricature by Richard Newton depicts George III and the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger. Published four years after Louis XVI of France was guillotined, its portrayal of their severed heads would have shocked audiences of the time.

Dissent of man: exploring the archaeology of satire and subversion

What can objects tell us about how people objected to the authority of the day? A new exhibition at the British Museum tells the story of rebels ancient and modern. CA went along to find out more.

Above Inside the Metropolitan Police’s Crime Museum at New Scotland Yard, 2015.

The Crime Museum Uncovered

In October, the contents of the Metropolitan Police’s Crime Museum went on public display for the first time at the Museum of London. This teaching collection has amassed artefacts from a succession of notorious crimes, but it also invites us to reflect on their legacy, as Jackie Keily told Matthew Symonds.

Steve hurst: war toys

A new exhibition featuring the work of war artist Steve Hurst was recently on display at Pangolin London, a Kings Cross gallery devoted to sculpture. Bringing together four decades of Hurst’s own personal imagery, which he admits is inextricably linked…