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Photographer Sebastião Salgado's Genesis at the Natural History Museum in London
April 8, 2013 - 8:00pmHaving seen deforestation on his native Brazilian farm, acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado went to five corners of the earth in pursuit of a portrait of the natural world.
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Royal Engineers Museum prepares to open up its mysterious Eighth Corridor
April 7, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham is inviting the public to explore the 80% of its collection which lies hidden within what it mysteriously terms the Eighth Corridor.
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Museum of Industry honours heroes of planes and trains in packed easter programme
April 7, 2013 - 8:00pmMedals given to Jack Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown, the men who made the first non-stop Transatlantic flight, have gone on show in an all-singing Easter at the MOSI.
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A dark aura: Realist Painter Neil Stokoe's All Things Must Pass at The Piper Gallery
April 7, 2013 - 8:00pmIn a series of large-scale ruminations on loneliness and despair, the peer of David Hockney and Frank Bowling takes a Francis Bacon quote as his starting point.
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Curator's Choice: A picnic table at Eureka! The National Children's Museum in Halifax
April 7, 2013 - 8:00pmLeigh-Anne Stradeski introduces All About Me, the new £2.9 million gallery at The National Children's Museum, and tells us why her favourite exhibit involves food decisions.
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Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer at the Barbican
April 7, 2013 - 8:00pmTaken from hundreds of books retrieved from a bookshop in his native Vancouver, Geoffrey Farmer's mini-world sees hundreds of hand puppets invade the Barbican's Curve.
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Our Friends Electric: Beamish Museum celebrates 40 years on the tramway in Durham
April 4, 2013 - 8:00pmA four-day festival of rides on the eight resident trams, behind-the-scenes tours and talks are taking place to celebrate 40 years of heritage railway heroics at the Beamish.
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Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion to honour architect Serge Chermayeff
April 4, 2013 - 8:00pmThe man who designed Bexhill's iconic 1935 modernist masterpiece will be honoured with a series of events in his innovative image, launching with a day of art and music.
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Luke Jerram and Arts Council put giant singing sculpture on sale for £1
April 4, 2013 - 8:00pmA vast stainless steel sculpture, which plays the sound of the wind through 20-metre long tubes and has toured to Canary Wharf and the Eden Project, has been put up for sale.
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Julian Stair, Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body at National Museum Cardiff
April 4, 2013 - 8:00pmThe dextrous potter and writer explores the age-old relationship between pottery and human burial rituals in a Cardiff display of beautiful vessels.
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Bernadette Corporation looks back at 2000 Wasted Years with art show at ICA
April 3, 2013 - 8:00pmThe London gallery gives the New York collective their first ever UK retrospective with fashion, bootleg publishing and general nihilism.
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Ice Age returns: Brighton Museum Chilled to the Bone
April 3, 2013 - 8:00pmDid curators in Brighton have one eye on the forecast when they were formulating their new Ice Age exhibition? Sarah Jackson takes a look at cave bear skulls, hand axes and orangutan jaws.
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Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East at The Queen's Gallery
April 3, 2013 - 8:00pmEdinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse showcases artefacts and photos from the Prince of Wales' unusual four-month tour of the Middle East in 1962.
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Letter written by Captain Scott as he lay dying in Antarctic to go on show at Polar Museum
April 3, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Scott Polar Research Institute, in Cambridge, has acquired one of Captain Scott's "last letters", buying one of his only dispatches still in private hands for £79,000.
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Roman Emperor Caracalla returns to Chester in Grosvenor Museum bust
April 3, 2013 - 8:00pmA pugnacious marble sculpture of a would-be Scottish invader, based on a version held at the Museo Archaeologico in Naples, has gone on display in Chester.
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Artist's Statement: Paul Robinson on new show Redacted at Cork Street
April 3, 2013 - 8:00pmThe photographer explains how his inspirations moved from the likes of Helmut Newton and Henri Cartier-Bresson to Francis Bacon and Otto Dix.
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In Pictures: Ten museums compete for the Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2013
April 2, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom Hepworth to Pembrokeshir, here's what the ten museum vying for the £100,000 prize have to say for themselves this year.
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Edinburgh Art Festival celebrates tenth birthday in style with strong line-up across city
April 2, 2013 - 8:00pmAs the hotly-anticipated annual visual arts festival in Edinburgh announces its line-up for this August, Director Sorcha Carey tells us about one or two shows to look out for.
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Three new artists star in The World of Extraordinary Objects at October Gallery
April 2, 2013 - 8:00pmRising talents Remy Jungerman, Jukhee Kwon and Gyeong Yoon introduce illuminating works in a display also featuring pieces by Gérard Quenum and William S Burroughs.
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Curator's Choice: Amber Druce picks a tomb painting from Pharaoh: Reborn
April 2, 2013 - 8:00pmDozens of watercolour recordings of tomb decorations from Ancient Egypt are about to go on show at the city's Museum and Art Gallery. We find out about one of them.
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