Posts under ‘museums’

Visiting the Shell Grotto last week, I was pleased to see a display of vintage 1950s and 1960s travel posters and brochures, conjuring up an image of Margate as a glamorous destination. Those were the days…. (sorry the picture quality isn't great) They also had a couple of pieces of original artwork. I don't know [...]

Last bank holiday Monday some friends and I went to "the original seaside", as Margate is now billing itself, to see the new Turner Contemporary. It looks a bit shed-like when you exit the station, but because it's the same height as the other buildings around it, it doesn't seem intrusive (it actually looks lower [...]

This week the Grant Museum re-opened in a new location, although if you were to visit the new venue and didn't know it was a new venue, it wouldn't be at all obvious. Housed in an Edwardian library, a double-height room with a balcony on the second level, it feels as though the collection had [...]

I love the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, although I don't visit it often enough because it's on the opposite side of London to me. A little while ago I happened to pass it on a bus, so I jumped off to have a quick look around, for the first time in a couple of [...]

For the third year in a row, I've decided to attempt to visit all 32 London boroughs and (this is is the crucial bit) take photos. The last two times I tried I didn't do very well, only photographing 15 boroughs in 2009 and 17 boroughs in 2010. Even if I go out exploring with [...]

Last month I went to a great, if small, exhibition of influential designer Barney Bubbles' work, at the tiny Chelsea Space gallery…

I keep going to exhibitions just as they're finishing, so it's always too late to tell anyone else about them. And lately I've been going to see exhibitions that have allowed me to take photos, so I've taken photos. And then I've posted them on Flickr, but neglected to even mention them on my blog. And it was pointed out to me that I'd neglected the blog quite a lot, so here's the first of some posts about exhibitions you can no longer go to.

Meet Sunday George who went off to have an adventure…

Sometimes it's too easy to forget just how much there is to discover or revisit in London. Last week I went to a preview of a great exhibition of Hypercomics, which has filled Battersea Park's Pump House Gallery with magical mystery and multi-directional narrative.

Last weeek I was supposed to go to Brighton for the day. I'd planned to attend a sewer tour with the Brighton Flickr group, and hoped to see the Charley Harper exhibition and had booked an advance train ticket to save money (less than a tenner instead of over twenty quid). Unfortunately, due to the [...]

The day after I went to Bekonscot it was the Lates night at the Science Museum, and I got to see my stitched self on display, along with 258 others…