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28th February 2003, 12:00am

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Rags to rich inventiveness

Attend an adults-only art workshop on April 5 at the Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, where artist Margaret Jackson will help you explore the exhibition Rags amp; Old Iron and use it to inspire your own imaginative artwork. Jackson is one of three artists whose work takes the museum’s collections as a starting point. Matthew Roby is inspired by sewing machines and typewriters, Adela Jones by dolls, and Margaret Jackson by the decline of the engineering industry in Bolton. For more information: 01204 332250; www.boltonmuseums.org.uk.

Cavalier decision

Enjoy an explosive time on April 5 and 6 at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, north London, when a civil war battle is re-enacted in the first of the museum’s outdoor activities this year. On Veterans Day, May 8, visitors are invited to learn first-hand from the men and women who fought in the Second World War. For more information: 020 8358 4849; www.rafmuseum.com.

Star spotting

March 7-16 is National Science Week, and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, is providing the opportunity to observe Saturn’s rings, learn about how Vermeer used the camera obscura and “meet” the 18th-century astronomer Caroline Herschel. For more information: 020 858 4422; www.nmm.ac.uk.

Zzzzzzz

Stay awake to learn about bedtime - how people have kept warm at night and all about beds from straw sack to status symbol - at Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, Leicestershire, on March 13 at 2pm. Tickets: 01509 233754.

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