Brent is the next London Borough of Culture, following Waltham Forest's programme in 2019. As to be expected from the home of Wembley Arena, its rich reggae heritage, and Kilburn's 'Music Mile', the 2020 celebration will be enriched with sound and song.
Highlights announced so far include:
Paisley Museum will undergo a £42m transformation beginning in 2020 after plans were approved by Renfrewshire Council.
The Category A-listed Victorian building is being upgraded to help it tell the stories of a town known around the world for its pattern.
The museum is expected to draw audiences of 125,000 people a year - almost four times current numbers - from Scotland, the rest of the UK and internationally when it is due to reopen in 2022.
The designs have been produced by AL_A, a company headed by by Stirling Prize winner Amanda Levete.
Glasgow has been named the UK’s top cultural and creative city in 2019 as part of a landmark report by the European Commission.
The report puts Glasgow at the top of the UK list above London, Bristol, Brighton and Manchester in the top five. Edinburgh is ranked 6th on the list. The report also ranked Glasgow as Europe’s leader for ‘openness, tolerance and trust’.
In 2018, Greater London Authority and the Port of London Authority jointly commissioned consultancy company Publica, in collaboration with BOP Consulting, to undertake a study to make the case for a cultural vision for the River Thames.
While the rest of the country begins unearthing dusty boxes of decorations from the attic, preparations for Waddesdon’s Christmas visitors start in a less conventional way; by ‘putting the house to bed’.
Waddesdon’s unique festive preparations begin in October, when rooms throughout the house are meticulously cleaned and packed away, ready for essential conservation work to take place. As part of this annual process 54 shutters are closed, 349 plates, knives and forks are packed away, and 140 light switches are turned off.
The Jewish Museum London has won the Museums Change Lives Award, given by the Museums Association, for their exhibition 'Jews, Money, Myth'.
The judges determined that the exhibition was “brave, fascinating and timely”, based on ground-breaking new research as well as community engagement.
Hull wants its 800 years of seafaring history to be officially recognised by becoming a Maritime City. This follows its designation as UK City of Culture in 2018 which helped revitalise the city.
In becoming Yorkshire's Maritime City, Hull would be embedded as a key part of the UK's tourism and heritage landscape.
Over the next five years, Hull will refurbish, preserve and restore four historic maritime sites and two historic ships. These are:
England's museums and galleries saw a 6% increase in visitor numbers in 2018 compared to the previous year.
VisitEngland's Annual Attractions Survey 2018, containing results from over 1,500 attractions, revealed a 2% increase in both visits and revenue for England's visitor attractions.
Tate Modern was top in museums and galleries for the first time in ten years with 5.87 million visitors.
British Museum, which has been top of the visitor numbers list in the past decade, had 5.83 million visitors.
A new DCMS National Museums Partnership Report reveals that an extra 33 million people saw objects from UK museums last year thanks to around 450,000 objects being loaned from 17 national museums.
750 museums across the UK benefitted from national museums loaning more than 60,000 objects, which were seen by more than 18.5 million visitiors, boasting local economies.
Showing the power of exporting culture worldwide, the 17 national museums toured 41 exhibitions to 79 international venues, which were attended by around 7 million people.
