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The Commandery in Worcester will welcome back visitors from Tuesday May 18. The museum, a Grade I listed building, is home to exhibitions about key periods in the citys history, including the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The city council said that changes have been made to ensure that visitors feel safe and welcome, including one-way routes, extra cleaning, hand sanitising stations and cashless payments. To celebrate the reopening, a brand-new touring exhibition ‘British Wildlife Phot...

It is one of 26 historical portraits donated in 1850 by Rev George Downing Bowles. This group of paintings were the museum’s first coherent group of artworks – like many museums at the time, the popular subject for curators was natural history rather than fine art – and so this collection marked the very beginnings of the Museum’s interest in art and art history. Nowadays, they are arguably the most significant part of Worcester’s Fine Art collection and are certainly some of th...

Sarah-Jane Morgan Worcester BID want to introduce our High Street Heroes, the people from our local city centre community. Who better to kick this feature off than Sarah-Jane Morgan, who is Chief Executive of Worcester Live and the dynamic driving force behind the city’s theatrical and performing arts. Favourite day out in the city? It has to be a day shopping with my three daughters! We love the city so much, we are so lucky to have such an amazing mix of enchanting independent shops to c...

A CITY swan project is urging people to feed the swans whilst out on their daily exercise. According to The Swan Food Project the protected birds are more hungry than usual due to the high river levels meaning they have to work harder swim in the strong current. A spokesman for the project said: "Do take some food with you when you go for your riverside walk. It takes such a lot of energy to swim in this strong current. If youre buying bread for them, buy seeded bread. "It has more of t...