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Night Sky Highlights - October 2024
Find out how to make the most of the October night sky by spotting the captivating Pinwheel Galaxy, the Orionid meteor shower, and more...
How to photograph comets
Learn how to photograph comets with our step-by-step astrophotography guide
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The art of rivalry: Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds
The two leading portrait painters of the 18th century weren't just competing for commissions. They each held fundamentally different beliefs about art
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Lone women and the Royal Navy
The Caird Library & Archive’s new display case highlights first-hand accounts of women’s experiences and contributions to the nineteenth-century Royal Navy
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The history of the transatlantic slave trade
Find out about the slave trade, resistance and eventual abolition at the Atlantic gallery
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Against the grain: the construction of Tudor panel paintings
What can the back of a painting tell us? Paintings conservator Lucy Odlin sheds some light on the often overlooked underside of Tudor masterpieces.
Press release
Pirates exhibition
In March 2025 the major exhibition Pirates will open at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), tracing the changing depictions of pirates throughout the ages and revealing the brutal history often obscured by fiction.
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Wind, Tide and Oar
Join us at the National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark for an exclusive film premiere of Wind, Tide & Oar, as well as a book launch and drinks reception