A taste of Versailles as experienced by King Louis XIV is coming to Ushaw this spring. And this exhibition has a show-stopping first in the shape of some of the rarest books in European history. Never before seen in public, the first edition volumes known…

This 3,000-year-old sun pendant features in a stunning new exhibition, which you can currently see at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. This stunning piece – known as gold bulla – is one of the most significant items of Bronze Age metalwork ever dis…

The National Trust has a plethora of exciting things for art lovers to see over the next few months including this little lot… One of the feathers in National Trust’s extravagant hat is the gorgeous Seaton Delaval Hall, and it’s here that you’ll be able t…

Ad Gefrin is the brilliant new Anglo-Saxon museum that has just opened in Wooler, and – get this! – it’s also a whisky distillery. Sold! It seems so obvious now: a world-class visitor attraction and a whisky distillery. But no one else had previously thou…