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The Your Community Greenspace exhibition

Ground-breaking project features in Peterborough exhibition

Halloween activities at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

Ghostly tales, eerie encounters and family friendly frights

Fright Night at Flag fen on Friday 30th and Saturday 31st October

Spooky season arrives at Peterborough's Flag Fen

A view of the Embankment from Fletton Quays

Civic Pride: The Nene - vital for the success of our future

Peterborough Museum

Internationally important collection at city museum given special status

Commissioned by Qatar Foundation and nestled in its Education City campus, the museum was inaugurated on November 28, 2025

Ad Feature M. F. Husain Museum named one of TIME World's Greatest Places 2026

Peterborough's City of Culture 2033 bid

New plans are drawn up to launch bid to be City of Culture in 2033

Nathan Murdock and Tony Nero working on the Cowgate mural

Celebrations of magnificent murals in Peterborough continues

John Cook, the lawyer who tried Charles I awaits his own grisly fate in this new drama.

'Royal Revenge' brought to life in Huntingdon

The Helios illuminated sculpture is coming to Peterborough Cathedral in February. Main image: Colin Scott. Inset image: James Dobson.

"Spectacular" touring artwork set to illuminate Peterborough Cathedral

Early career heritage professionals

Museum awarded funds to ‘Reimagine’ its collections

Meet Santa at Sacrewell

What's on in Peterborough as we count down to Christmas Day

Nene Park Winter Festival

What's on - with lots of festive events for all the family

Andrew Pakes MP and Baroness Twycross

Westminster Life: Let's make 2026 the Year of the Lido

The new exhibit at the Cromwell Museum

New exhibit showcases rare surviving Cromwellian clothing

Get ready for Halloween at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

Halloween inside one of Peterborough's most haunted buildings
As the nights draw in and the shadows deepen, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery is inviting the brave (and the foolishly-naive) to step inside one of the city’s most haunted buildings for a season of spine-tingling events, ghostly encounters, and other adventures.
Brad Barnes

Visiting Flag Fen

Westminster Life: A call to arms for the city

St Petersburg, Florida

What happened when I visited Florida as an LGBT+ traveller

31 fun-filled summer activities for children - for every day in August

31 fun-filled summer activities for every day in August

A guitar once thought to have been lost for over 50 years, owned by The Rolling Stones, has been discovered as part of a collection at a New York art museum.

Stolen Rolling Stones' guitar found at New York Museum

The Lucy Wilson Mysteries.

New Doctor Who book featuring Peterborough and museum launched!

Couple forced to call police after they were locked in Madame Tussauds for four hours

'I had to wee in bin': Terrified woman 'trapped' in Madame Tussauds

Young artist enthusiasts at Fitzwilliam Museum

A new canvas for Cambridgeshire’s youngest creatives

Welcoming Peter Purves to the opening of the exhibition

Town Hall View: Meeting a hero from the golden age of children’s TV

Announcing the exhibition

Rutland Open Art Exhibition 2025

The WW2 bomb found by Adam Makewell and his son Cameron Makewell in the River Ure in Yorkshire.

Moment teenager crashes underwater drone into live 500kg WWII bomb

Rob Lane owner of 'The Straight To Video - 80s Video Shop' in Alfreton, Derbyshire.

See inside nostalgic 1980s VHS shop with captivating retro collection
Rob and Chris, who run ‘The Straight To Video - 80s Video Shop' in Derbyshire, wanted to recreate the feeling of going to the video shop on Fridays and Saturdays to pick out a film.
Jessica Martin

Fossils Galore at March with owner Jamie Jordan

Prehistoric Family Fun coming to March Museum this Easter

A small dog being groomed

Watch quirky UK Shots! TV episodes

Shop owner holding an artificial leg

Hidden antique treasures in the UK

Peterborough MP Andrew Pakes (left) and Peterborough City Council leader cllr Dennis Jones (right) announce the new funding for Peterborough Museum

WATCH: Peterborough Museum given lift with £140,000 funding boost

The Budget: A proposal to mothball the Lido has been amended, following the huge public show of support for the facility

Town Hall View: Time for all councillors to do what is best for the council and ...

Mark Cranston who has built an amazing collection of bricks.

I have a collection of 4,000 bricks...each one tells a story

Get ready for Halloween activities at Peterborough Museum

Peterborough Museum's night of horror, candlelit tours and ghost stories

Three brandy glasses during Ararat factory tour

I tried brandy in Armenia - and it has made me a convert

German Observation Tower on south coast cliffs, Guernsey

Visit Guernsey to discover underground bunkers and WW2 history

The best towns and cities for a Staycation including Liverpool

Maps and planning documents detailing top-secret plans were donated to House on the Hill museum.

Watch: Top secret D-Day documents from Normandy found in old car boot

Cromwellian cavalry on Huntingdon Town Square

Cromwell’s 425th anniversary commemorated in his hometown.

Peterborough Songbook Singing Days.

PHOTOS: Hundreds of local primary school children premiere songs at The Cresset

National Football Museum in Manchester Credit: Google

English Tourism Week: Video explores UK's top visitor attractions

Local photographer Chris Porsz will be displaying around 165 sets of his now famous 'then and now' photos at the 'Reunions' exhibition at Peterborough Museum from January 13 (image: Chris Porsz)

Poignant 'Reunions' photography exhibition set to open at Peterborough Museum

Visitor Kevin Chung looking at the planet at the opening of the Mars: War and Peace exhibition

Mars enters Peterborough's Cathedral's orbit at start of stunning exhibition

Peterborough Civic Society is urging Peterborough City Council to improve funding for arts, culture and heritage amid concerns about the future of Peterborough Museum, top, and its library services, below left. It says the disappearance of the Peterborough Heritage Festival, picture shows scene from 2017's event, is evidence of fall in spending on culture.

Civic Society fears closure of museum and libraries in battle for art funding

Married couple Janet and John Ford, who own Tudor World, are at loggerheads with Joe Rukin, who runs Sinister Stratford ghost tours.

Turf war breaks out between Stratford-upon-Avon ghost tour guides

Taylor Swift Eras Tour: Who is Presley Cash?

Buckingham Palace

King Charles drops major hint about future of Buckingham Palace

An exceptionally rare Chinese box and cover from the 15th century Ming period has been discovered in a dust-filled cabinet in the attic of a family home, where it had been stored and left untouched since the owner’s death in 1967.

Old tin found in attic turns out to be Chinese Ming Dynasty treasure

Two Just Stop Oil supporters were arrested at the Herbert Museum in Coventry while demanding that the government stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and calling on employees and directors of UK cultural institutions to join in civil resistance against the governments genocidal policies.

Just Stop Oil protestors tackled to ground after storming dino exhibit

Peterborough's Heritage Festival in Cathedral Square and the Cathedral Grounds in 2018

Civic Pride: Defining Peterborough’s heritage

A Barber Surgeon's equipment

Fascinating look at 17th Century medicine and cures

The Natural History Museum has released a list of new animal and plant species found in 2022

Scientists release list of new animals and plants found in 2022

Plenty to look forward to at Peterborough Museum

What to do at Peterborough Museum in the run up to Christmas

Halloween Horror Night at Peterborough Museum

Are you ready for Peterborough's 'most haunted'?

Look out for the re-enactors in Huntingdon as part of the celebrations

60 years of the Cromwell Museum