Portsmouth100 Exhibition

Portsmouth100 opened at the Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery on Monday 26 October, and it's free to visit. The exhibition marks the centenary of Portsmouth's city status, which was granted in 1926, and it's built as a lasting legacy of the city's centenary year.

It's a big one, running across three galleries and 20 themed sections. It doesn't just stick to the big history, either; it pulls in football, music, transport, art and the dockyard, so there's a fair bit of the everyday city in there alongside the more formal stuff. The whole thing was put together through a co-curation process with local people and organisations, and it was made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

If you're already there, you can see more than just the centenary display. The museum houses The Story of Portsmouth, with reconstructions of a 17th-century bedchamber, an 1871 dockyard worker's kitchen, a Victorian parlour, a 1930s kitchen and a 1950s living room. Beside that is No Place Like Pompey, which sets out what makes the city what it is: its island setting, its ties to the dockyard and the Royal Navy, and its fortifications.

So you can do the new exhibition on its own, or spend a proper afternoon working your way through the reconstructions and the permanent collections. Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery is on Museum Road in Portsmouth, and entry is free.