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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike 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:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
