Anything relating to London’s museums: updates, information and reviews
The City of London, the financial district, is full of lesser-known historical treasures. The subject of this blog post though is not historical as such, but gives you a brilliant sense of the size, layout and architecture of London. I often recommend the models of London by NLA (New London Architecture), inside the London Centre, […]
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The Imperial War Museum London in Southwark put on incredible, regular and large-scale, free exhibitions. From the 27th September 2024 until the 27th April 2025 you can visit their new exhibition called War and the Mind, all about the psychological aspects of warfare: why we go to war, how leader’s justify it, how those that
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Tucked down a little side-street called Martlett Court near Covent Garden you will find the entrance to the Bow Street Police Museum. Opened in 2021, it is one of London’s newest and smallest museums and is only open Friday-Sunday 11am-4.30pm, so it is important to get the timing right with this one. Housed in part
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Walk down St John’s Lane in Clerkenwell and at the end of the street you will see a impressive gatehouse. Incongruous to its surroundings, it looks almost as if it has been transported out of a medieval world. This was once the Southern entranceway to the Clerkenwell Priory, the English Headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller.
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I recently had a fascinating visit to the Map House in Knightsbridge. The Map House was established on another site, St James’s Street in St James’s, in 1907, before moving to its current site in 1973. They originally made their own maps and over the years they have supplied maps of Antarctica to Ernest Shackleton,
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