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All the latest news from Culture24.

• Redgrave Archive Goes to Museum
  Theatre Museum secures records of 20th century theatrical dynasty with help of Lottery.
• Conservators uncover 16th century writing in Salisbury Cathedral
  Conservators at Salisbury Cathedral have uncovered some beautifully written 16th century gothic text, hidden for 350 years behind the Henry Hyde Monument.
• £500,000 raised for campaign to keep Staffordshire Hoard in Midlands
  A campaign to keep The Staffordshire Hoard in the Midlands has received a boost of £300,000 from The Art Fund and a further £200,000 from Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent councils.
• Heritage Lottery Fund give £300,000 towards Roman Villa excavation in Folkestone
  A project to help Folkestone rediscover its roots that includes an archaeological dig for treasures at an internationally important Roman Villa has received a boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
• Kids in Museums launches manifesto and reveals campaign to get more families into museums
  The Kids in Museums campaign today launched its new manifesto at the British Museum and revealed news of a new government-backed campaign to get more families into UK museums.
• NASA use Yorkshire Museum meteorite to prepare for Mars trip
  A team of scientists from America and Europe is visiting the Yorkshire Museum to make a 3D Map of a 4,500-year-old Middlesborough Meteorite they plan to send to Mars.
• Tate Britain buys eight unique William Blake etchings
  Tate has bought a series of powerful hand-coloured etchings by William Blake with the assistance of The Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons and the public.
• Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe narrates commemorative Holocaust Memorial Day film
  Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has narrated a special film charting the stories of survivors and their wish for a legacy of hope to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
• Culture24 welcomes teachers for BETT 2010
  Culture24 will be looking to inspire and share ideas with teachers and visitors as BETT, the world's largest education technology fair, kicks off at London's Olympia exhibition hall.
• Dinosaurs in your garden with bird-beast revelations at Abergavenny Museum
  An exhibition opening at the Abergavenny Museum reveals how the inconspicuous chirpers floating around the average garden are direct relatives of decidedly more imposing dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago.
• Dutch secret service police raid Tate Modern exhibition by Jill Magid
  Artist Jill Magid has been reflecting on a "strange" conclusion to her four-year project revealing the human face of the Dutch secret service, which ended with officers confiscating a manuscript from her Authority to Remove show.
• Kids in Museums campaign launches 2010 manifesto
  Kids in Museums, the organisation created to urge museums and galleries to become more family friendly, has announced a typically forceful manifesto of advice for sites across the UK in 2010.
• Portsmouth Historic Dockyard marks 88 years of HMS Victory
  This week marks the 88th anniversary of HMS Victory, the iconic warship famously used by Lord Nelson in his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, being moved to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
• Round-up: Citizenship
  Here's our Culture24 guide to the online and real world Citizenship resources and activities on offer from the UK's museums and archives.
• £10 million Hull History Centre ready for opening as final archives arrive
  The final boxes of a 28,000-strong haul have arrived at the "fantastic" new Hull History Centre, which is set to open later this month following a two-year, £10 million building project.
• Chagall coup at centre of Ben Uri London Jewish Museum's bid for a new home
  A rare Marc Chagall painting snapped up by the London Jewish Museum of Art's Ben Uri gallery stars in its new Apocalypse exhibition, which organisers hope will kickstart a campaign to find a new permanent home for the centre.
• Museums and English Heritage unite for Stonehenge show to "draw on all the senses"
  English Heritage will join Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum and Wiltshire Heritage Museum in a dedicated exhibition space at the new Stonehenge visitor centre.
• Wins for Walsall, Walthamstow and Devizes as Lottery Fund awards £9.3 million to parks
  The 136-year-old Walsall Arboretum is the biggest winner in a £9.3 million round of funding announced by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a trio of parks across the UK.
• Cultural figures recognised in New Year Honours List
  Key individuals including David Barrie, the Art Fund Director who stepped down after 17 years in charge in 2009, have been recognised in the New Year Honours List.
• Holy sextet boosted by Heritage Lottery and Historic Scotland money
  Five distinguished churches and a cathedral in Scotland will have urgent and essential repairs carried out thanks to grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Scotland

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