Video: Favourite Museums and Galleries 09/08/2021 donbrown 0 Another free talk from me and my four friends at UKToursOnline. Here we look forward to the reopening of the UK’s galleries and museums by […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
The Museum of the Home 07/08/2021 donbrown 0 To the reopened (after a 3 ½ year, £18m+ revamp) Museum of the Home, a London Society tour with the museum director Sonia Solicari, and […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
Lindow Man – the body in the bog 25/04/2020 donbrown 0 In the British Museum is a remarkable Iron Age corpse, a wonderfully preserved ‘bog body’ from the 1st century CE discovered in a place called […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
The Royal Gold Cup 18/04/2020 donbrown 0 Walk into Room 40 in the British Museum via the staircase in the entrance lobby and the first thing that hits you is this wonderful […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
A Medieval Citole in the British Museum 17/04/2020 donbrown 0 Up in Room 40 of the British Museum you will find one of the most stunning bits of medieval carving to survive – a citole […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
Gebelein Man – a 5,500 year old murder mystery 18/03/2016 donbrown 0 One of the oldest pieces in the museum is not stone or porcelain or metal, but an actual human being – someone who walked around […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
The Lewis Chess Pieces in the British Museum 07/03/2016 donbrown 0 One of the most famous of the early medieval exhibits from the museum is the Lewis chessmen. 93 separate pieces, in a variety of sizes, […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
Tang Grave Figures 03/03/2016 donbrown 0 The Tang dynasty – 618AD to 907AD – was one of the golden ages of China. We’re often a bit unspecific about the dates of […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
Monet – The Gare St Lazare 20/07/2015 donbrown 0 PREVIOUS: CONSTABLE – STRATFORD MILL Claude Monet: The Gare St Lazare: 1877 This picture is an urban Parisian scene rather than a rural view, but […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
Constable – Stratford Mill 20/07/2015 donbrown 0 PREVIOUS: TURNER – THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE John Constable: Stratford Mill: 1820 We think of Constable’s landscapes as classic images of the English countryside, almost ‘chocolate […] Share this: Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky MoreShare on Tumblr Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Like this:Like Loading...
