Press Release Articles
Press Release - Oct 2025
Museum Renewal Fund announcement for The Box
We are delighted to announce that we have received funding from the Museum Renewal Fund established by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and administered by Arts Council England (ACE).
Press Release - Sep 2025
Five Years On: The Box celebrates its fifth anniversary and outlines its impact
To mark The Box's fifth anniversary, we are proud to release the results of a new report which outlines the impact the venue has had since it welcomed its first visitors on 29 September 2020.
Press Release - Sep 2025
Looking Back: The Box secures significant funding to keep rare work of art in the UK
In early 2020, The Box announced that it had raised nearly a quarter of a million pounds from five key funders to save a rare piece of 19th century studio pottery for the nation. As we get closer to our fifth anniversary on 29 September 2025, we look back at this significant addition to the art collection.
Press Release - Aug 2025
Looking Back: Figurehead flotilla is revealed
It was an exciting day at The Box on 10 March 2020, when an impressive flotilla of 19th century ship’s figureheads was unveiled for the first time.
Press Release - Aug 2025
The Box unboxes developer donation
A Plymouth-based developer has donated £2,000 to The Box Foundation. Persimmon Homes Cornwall & West Devon handed over the cheque earlier this month as part of its Community Champions scheme, with Plymouth City Council’s leader, Cllr Tudor Evans, in attendance.
Press Release - Aug 2025
Major exhibition programme explores shared UK-Poland histories this autumn
The Box's dynamic autumn programme runs from Saturday 4 October 2025 to Sunday 11 January 2026. It features Grayson Perry, Goshka Macuga, highlights from the British Council Collection and is an important part of UK/Poland Season 2025.
Press Release - Aug 2025
Historic blue plaque honours achievements of Ralph Alger Bagnold
A new blue plaque has been unveiled in Stoke today in honour of Ralph Alger Bagnold OBE FRS KL (1896-1990), a Plymouth-born man who became a scientist, explorer and soldier and whose ground breaking research into sand dunes has been recognised by NASA.
Press Release - Jul 2025
Looking Back: A new window for St Luke's
The Box selected Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes (b. 1972) to create a new east window for St Luke’s Church in 2019 after she represented her country at the prestigious Venice Biennale. Her commission took us on a journey that connected contemporary art, European craftsmanship, a 17th century female scientist/artist, and our historically important Cottonian Collection.
Press Release - Jun 2025
Looking Back: A mammoth moment
It was a ‘huge’ moment for The Box back in February 2020 as our fully assembled woolly mammoth was revealed for the first time.
Press Release - Jun 2025
Devon’s Top Attractions serve up smiles, scones and 40 years of tourism
Sunshine, scones and spectacular scenery..... 'Devon’s Top Attractions' marked a major milestone this month as they gathered on the lawn of Holne Park House at River Dart Country Park for a glorious celebration of four decades of excellence - and they did it in the most Devon way possible: with a cream tea in hand!
Press Release - Jun 2025
Historic plaque unveiled in Plymouth to honour Sir Charles Eastlake
The Box was delighted to welcome Sir Gabriele Finaldi, director of the National Gallery to Plymouth on Thursday 26 June, to celebrate the unveiling of a new commemorative blue plaque honouring Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865). The plaque is located at Hillside Court, Plympton St Mary, the site of the pioneering Victorian art scholar and first director of the National Gallery's former home 'Hillside'.
Press Release - Jun 2025
The Box announces landmark Beryl Cook exhibition for 2026
Taking place 100 years after she was born, the exhibition will re-assess and re-present Cook’s work, giving her the acclaim she deserves.