Anything relating to London’s museums: updates, information and reviews
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 They originally made their own maps and over the years they have supplied maps of Antarctica to Ernest Shackleton, […]
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Hampton Court Palace is one of London’s most historic locations. The place just oozes with history. I was delighted recently to be taken on a tour of the palace by Daniel Jackson, head of historic buildings at Historic Royal Palaces. He showed me lots of the little details and secrets that many visitors miss. I have
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On Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in Holborn, is what has got to be one of London’s most unusual, at times slightly unsettling, but totally fascinating museums. It is called the Hunterian Museum, part of the Royal College of Surgeons, and is filled with artefacts and specimens from the worlds of surgery, medicine and natural history. The
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One of London’s most fascinating museums for those interested in history but particularly World War Two, is the Churchill War Rooms. I was lucky enough recently to be invited to go on one of their ‘Behind The Glass’ tours and saw lots of amazing little details. A quick history of the Churchill War Rooms In
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I recently went on a visit to the Museum of Homelessness. After having no permanent home itself for 8 years, they have recently found a base in Finsbury Park. I gathered from their website that it would not be a normal museum experience. Having been, I thought it was brilliant and that every Londoner, if
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