The best exhibitions for students this year

Art, history, science, fashion: Some of the best free or cheap exhibitions from around the country

(Science Museum)

Every city has got some great exhibitions on anything from art to medicine. However, it is extremely easy to forget they exist and miss what could be an interesting day. Here are a few across the country to get you started so you don’t miss out.

Science Museum, London: Collider

Running: Until 5 May
Price: Concessions £7

Exhibition about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN which uses theatre and video, as well as artifacts from CERN to recreate the experience of the real place and show the work behind the discovery of the Higgs boson. Well worth it for anyone studying physics or simply interested.

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery: Subversive Design

Runs: until 9 March
Price: Concessions £4, Residents of Brighton and Hove £3

This exhibition explores the ways in which designers and makers of everyday objects have reacted to the world around them, playing with the form and function of objects to provoke and amuse. There is work from a wide range of designers is including Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.

Weston Park Museum Sheffield: Sheffield Castle Revealed

Runs: Until 5 May
Price: Free

Underneath the 1960s-built Castle Market in Sheffield, there is the remains of a medieval castle. Now that the market is being moved, there has been a sudden growth in interest in the old castle. This exhibition looks at the discoveries from the early 20th century excavation of the area.

Laing Art Gallery Newcastle: Thomas Bewick and his Apprentices

Runs: Until 19 October
Price: Free

Newcastle was once very big in the publishing trade. Thomas Bewick and his apprentices were a part of this, creating famous wood engravings that allowed the printing of pictures in books. This collection shows many of these engravings as well as the paintings and drawings produced by the same people.

Museum of Edinburgh: Historic Edinburgh from Above

Runs: Until 26 April
Price: Free

An exhibition of the aero-photography of Edinburgh in the twentieth century which offers a unique insight into the changes in the cityscape over time, including the social and industrial history.

Seacity Museum, Southampton: Southampton’s Titanic Story

Runs: Ongoing
Price: Entrance to the museum is £4.50 for students

Explores the Titanic disaster and its impact on Southampton, where more than five-hundred families lost a family member to the tragedy. The exhibition recreates the sights and sounds of 1912 Southampton and ends in the Disaster Room, where the sequence of events from the moment of the Titanic hit the iceberg are explored using powerful oral testimonies from survivors.

Fashion Museum, Bath: Georgian Fashion

Runs: Until 1 January 2015
Price: Students £11 or, if from the University of Bath, free with a Resident’s Discovery Card, which can be acquired from The Roman Baths with ID

The Georgians were famous for their fashions and this exhibition explores looks at the finest fashions worn to the high society gatherings in the 18th century. The exhibition finishes with 18th century-inspired fashions from top designers Anna Sui, Meadham Kirchhoff, Vivienne Westwood, Stephen Jones, and Alexander McQueen.

Discovery Quay, Cardiff Bay: The Doctor Who Experience

Runs: Ongoing
Price: Students, 20 per cent off tickets at the box office, otherwise £13 online

This had to be included. Although not necessarily pertaining to a specific university subject, the Doctor Who experience is simply a good day out for any fans of the show with memorabilia from the past 50 years and an interactive adventure with the doctor himself (AKA Matt Smith).

The Guildhall, Leicester: Richard III: Leicester’s Search for a King

Runs: Until 1 June
Price: Free

This exhibition tells the history of King Richard III and of the search for his lost remains, eventually found underneath a car park two years ago. The exhibition explores this through four narrators, the Historian, the Archaeologist, the Bio-archaeologist and the Scientist to give visitors a rounded view of the life of the king and how he was discovered. Great for history and archaeology students.