Today is the 16th National Poetry Day and readers and writers young are exploring the theme 'heroes and heroines.'

Eight artists from around the world are on the shortlist for this year's Artes Mundi Prize, the UK's biggest contemporary art prize.

Bookmakers Paddy Power are offering 2/1 odds on a builder's rear end winning the Turner Prize, but announce Roger Hiorns as the 11/10 favourite.

The Heritage Lottery Fund's Training Bursary Programme, which delivers training for a wide range of heritage skills, will benefit from a £2.85m investment as 220 new training places are created.

The 2010 World Monuments Watch, a worldwide list of endangered heritage sites has named six world heritage sites in the British Isles that are in danger.

English Heritage's new permanent exhibition at Eltham Palace explores life at the part Art Deco, part 14th century palace after the Courtauld family moved out and the Royal Army Education Corps took it over in 1945.

Ditchling Museum has secured first round HLF funding of £157,500 to work up plans to transform the Sussex museum.

The Turner Prize, the prestigious award for contemporary young British artists, is now in its 25th year. The nominees' work is now on display at the Tate Britain before the winner is announced in December.

The 36-acre Gothic mansion home of West Yorkshire's Bagshaw Museum will reopen later this month following a two-year closure for improvements to the tune of more than £700,000.

As part of Culture24's exploration of the Designated collection at the Royal Engineers Museum, Head Curator Rebecca Nash reveals her 'Curator's Choice'; Charles Pasley's Napoleonic era sash.

As part of Culture24's exploration of the Designated collection at the Royal Engineers Museum, Director Richard Dunn reveals his 'Curator's Choice'; the Brennan torpedo.

As part of its Designated collection the Royal Engineers Museum has a world class medal collection that includes 25 Victoria Crosses and the regalia of four field Marshalls. Head Curator Rebecca Nash explains its importance.

Richard Moss takes a tour of the Royal Engineers Museum with Director Richard Dunn and Head Curator Rebecca Nash to look at a Designated collection bursting with fascinating objects and stories.

Head Curator Rebecca Nash and Director Richard Dunn of the Royal Engineers Museum talk about a prized item in their Designated collection; the map used by Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.

A new competition launched by museums and council officials in York is inviting local artists to compete for space in empty shop fronts on some of the busiest streets in the city.

The Museums Association conference has opened with an address on Renaissance in the Regions by Chair of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.

In a Guest Article for Culture24, Vaughan Allen, Chief Executive of the URBIS centre in Manchester, explains why the UK's cultural institutions need to be brave and bold to survive and succeed in changing times.

After images" subverting colours in images to create imagination'driven worlds of brash new colours are on the agenda for the Berlin-based Artists Anonymous at Riflemaker. Mark Sheerin meets some sock puppets.