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Museum On Tour, 17 October 2018: RA 250 – The RA Schools and ‘Miss Angel’

by Lottie Clark, Art Curator and Emma Philip, Fine Art Curator We’re marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Academy (RA) this autumn, otherwise known as RA250. Today’s post by two of the Curators from our Art Department explores it founding principles and one of its most significant founding members. When the […]

Men of the Chinese Labour Corps, Caestre on 14 July 1917 CLC © IWM (Q 5891)

Museum On Tour, 10 October 2018: The Chinese Labour Corps – The Forgotten of the Forgotten

by Stacey Turner, Events and Audience Development Coordinator In 1916, over 95,000 farm labourers from remote Northern China volunteered to leave their homes. They packed their belongings, said goodbye to their families and began a three-month journey to the Western Front. Many of them would never return. These men were the Chinese Labour Corps; a […]

Councillors Ian Bowyer and Tudor Evans with gallery visuals for The Box, Plymouth

Top team set to fit out The Box

PRESS RELEASE - 5 October 2018: The internationally renowned company that created the Victoria and Albert Museum's blockbuster David Bowie exhibition and 'Age of the Dinosaur' at the Natural History Museum has been selected to fit out The Box.

Behind The Scenes, 4 October 2018: The vision for the Elizabethan House

by Jo Clarke, Marketing and Communications Officer We’re having a hectic week here with lots of different press announcements for The Box, but elsewhere progress is also being made with the Elizabethan House. We recently put out an update about the project. Planning and listed building consent applications for the proposed phase two works have been […]

Three major artworks secured for The Box, Plymouth’s collections

PRESS RELEASE - 3 October 2018: The Box, Plymouth has acquired three major contemporary works of art for its permanent collections through the Contemporary Art Society’s prestigious Collections Fund Prize.

Plymouth confirmed as host city for British Art Show 9

PRESS RELEASE - 2 October 2018: The UK’s largest touring exhibition of contemporary British Art will be heading to Plymouth again in 2021, following the official announcement by London’s Hayward Gallery that the city has been selected as one of the four host locations for British Art Show 9 (BAS 9).

Steel bar from The Box topping out ceremony - September 2018

Build Update, 26 September 2018: Topping out and more!

by Jo Clarke, Marketing and Communications Officer We reached another major milestone for The Box this month when we held a ‘Topping Out’ ceremony to mark the structural completion of the building. Here’s the most recent time lapse footage from our web cam which captures the progress being made on site before the event took […]