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The critically acclaimed Mr Turner film has gone on general release. You may not know that Royal Museums Greenwich have been involved behind the scenes for years.

In this new Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year-inspired blog post about astronomically-themed objects from the Museum's collections, I am looking at planets and other cosmic bodies in our solar system.

Cutty Sark was built in 1869 to serve the China tea trade and owner John Willis had aspirations for his ship to be the fastest in this trade. He also wanted Cutty Sark to beat rival ship Thermopylae, launched the previous year by Walter Hood for the Aberdeen White Star Line.

The craft of putting ship models in bottles has both fascinated and puzzled people for years and when the new sculpture by Yinka Shonibare M.B.E. for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square was installed, the interest became front-page news.

HMS Hood is one of the most famous British battleships of World War II and in her time the largest warship in the world.

For Museum Week Clara de la Pena McTigue, Senior Prints and Drawings Conservator, talks about the work she did to prepare for our Unseen: Lives of Looking exhibition.

Between 2006 and 2012, the Cutty Sark Trust undertook an ambitious conservation project to save the last remaining tea clipper.

Richard mentioned in his recent post, Looking for a New Harrison, the three accurate longcase clocks that were made by John and James Harrison in the latter half of the 1720s and it prompted me to post a little about an ongoing museum research project that investigates Harrison’s unusual mechanical approach to the pendulum clock.

Today's guest blog was written by Bryony Dixon, Curator of silent film at the BFI. She's been busy restoring one of the finest films of the British silent era ahead of a special screening at our museum.