museums

Glorious Chaos: Sir John Soane’s Museum

17/02/2024 donbrown 0

Sir John Soane (1753-1837), most famously the architect of the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery, was the son of a bricklayer who rose […]

The Last of the WW2 Big Ships – HMS Belfast

30/01/2024 donbrown 0

A visit to HMS Belfast on a chilly, late January Tuesday gave me the ship almost to myself, the first time I’d visited this floating […]

The Nereid Monument in the British Museum

22/01/2024 donbrown 0

On one’s way to the Parthenon Gallery one walks through Room 17 of the British Museum and there, on the right, is what appears to […]

All Hail the Sacred Dung Beetle!

12/11/2023 donbrown 0

When Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, sold his collection of antiquities to the British Museum in 1816, the museum acquired not only his once […]

star carr red dear headdress in the british museum

Contemplating the Infinite in the British Museum

09/11/2023 donbrown 0

In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, the Total Perspective Vortex gives “one momentary glimpse of the size of the entire infinity of creation […]

The Mithraeum: The City of London’s Roman Temple

24/07/2023 donbrown 0

Under the Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City is the ‘London Mithraeum’, a glimpse into an obscure part of Roman London. Obscure not just […]

A Visit to Bow Street Police Museum

06/11/2022 donbrown 0

On 14 July 2006 the magistrates’ court opposite the Royal Opera House on Bow Street tried its final cases before being closed and redeveloped as […]

The Sutton Hoo treasure

01/02/2022 donbrown 0

In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]

The Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum

15/11/2021 donbrown 0

A bit more medieval from the British Museum (read all about a 700 year old citole here), but this time we’re not in my favourite […]

The 4500 year old Standard of Ur

18/08/2021 donbrown 0

Back in the British Museum for the first time since lockdown and prepping for a real life tour with a real life guest. The Standard […]

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Glorious Chaos: Sir John Soane’s Museum

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The Last of the WW2 Big Ships – HMS Belfast

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Contemplating the Infinite in the British Museum

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A Visit to Bow Street Police Museum

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The 4500 year old Standard of Ur

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