Anything relating to London’s museums: updates, information and reviews
London, at its heart, is a Roman city, founded just after the Roman invasion in 43AD. Many Roman remnants survive today including sections of the wall, a temple and bathhouses. An important Roman town also needs an amphitheatre. It was assumed that Londinium, as the Roman city was known, must have had an amphitheatre but
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London is known for its world-class and often vast museums, but it is also full of smaller, lesser-known museums that are also well worth visiting and often give you a much closer connection with London’s past. One such place is Dr Johnson’s House at 17 Gough Square. It is a beautiful townhouse located on a
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I recently paid a visit to the beautiful Dulwich Picture Gallery: the world’s oldest purpose-built art gallery. Not only does it house an incredible art collection with works by Constable, Rembrandt and Gainsborough, but it has some incredible architecture to admire and even contains a mausoleum… Early Origins: The Elizabethan Actor In 1605 Edward Alleyn,
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London is, of course, full of brilliant, often free, museums. You can read all my blog posts on London museums/exhibitions here. I recently went to the Bank of England Museum for the first time in years. Commerce, trade and finance are all so integral to the story of London and this is a great museum
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Turn off bustling Fleet Street into the much narrower and quieter Bride Lane. Walk past the back of Wren’s 17th century St Bride’s Church… … and you will find a historical hidden gem: the St Bride Foundation. From the early 1700s up until the 1980s, Fleet Street was the centre of London’s thriving newspaper business.
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