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    Cutty Sark Open daily 10am-5pm Last entry 4.15pm Adult: £22 | Child: £11 Members go free
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    Life on board a container ship – in pictures Artist Zoe Childerley is embarking on a project with the National Maritime Museum to bring experiences of modern seafarers to light. How did she find her first voyage on board a container ship?
    The hidden details in Turner's 'The Battle of Trafalgar' Discover some of the intricacies within J.M.W. Turner’s monumental artwork, on display at the Queen’s House
    A rare spectacle: photographing the aurora in England An incredibly strong solar storm in May 2024 made the aurora visible across the UK. Astrophotographer Darren Flinders seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
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Go behind the scenes with our expert curators, astronomers, conservators and library & archive team

16 Jan 2025
Night Sky Highlights - February 2025
Discover what to see in February's night sky including a planetary parade, shining Saturn and Venus, and a host of deep sky objects in Orion
01 Jan 2025
Night Sky Highlights - January 2025
Start the year by catching the Red Planet at its brightest, take in the distant Elephant's Trunk Nebula, and view the Quadrantid meteor shower
19 Dec 2024
A universal map in a dead language
This blog takes a look at an almost five-hundred-year-old geographical text in the Caird Library and Archive.
21 Nov 2024
Night Sky Highlights - December 2024
Find out what to see in the night sky this December, including not one, but two meteor showers!
25 Oct 2024
Night sky highlights - November 2024
Find out what to see in the November night sky, including the Orion Nebula, open star clusters and more.
07 Oct 2024
Voyages in ‘search and discoverie of strange coasts, the chiefe subject of this my labour’
Explore the works and legacy of Richard Hakluyt, an Elizabethan compiler and editor of travel writing at the Caird Library and Archive.
04 Oct 2024
The Syren and Shipping Illustrated
The Syren and Shipping Illustrated was a weekly journal for the merchant shipping industry, published 1887-1967.
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