Museum

Huge sculptures seem to be London’s ‘thing’ at the moment. What with the chair and table on Hampstead Heath and the WEEE man over at City Hall. Now the NHM has its very own large, outdoor artwork in the form of Diane Maclean’s ‘Mountain’. Maclean’s …

The Science Museum is once again playing host to an exhibition based on a movie following the success of its Lord of the Rings fan fest. No life size replicas of Sean Bean dead in a boat this time round, but you will get to …

If you don’t ‘take’ the Observer on a Sunday then you might have missed this article by Miranda Sawyer in the paper’s Sunday magazine. The piece was written to mark the twenty-year anniversary of the death of photojournalist David Hodge, who was fatally injured during …

Quentin Wheeler, the keeper and head of entomology at London’s Natural History Museum, and another colleague have put the insect world into a bit of a spin after deciding to name three newly discovered species of slime-mould beetle after George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald …

Transport for London has just put its £15 million “media planning and buying account” up for grabs, which gives us a good excuse to look at lots of old, fantastic images that TfL have used in the past. Like these for instance: If you fancy …

The chairman of trustees for the Science Museum, Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, has written to the Daily Telegraph to warn that the museum may have to sell off its Imperial College library to stay out financial trouble. After already closing four galleries and cutting …

Think And Wonder, Wonder And Think… sounds like one of those schools’ television programmes you used to get in the Eighties doesn’t it? You can almost imagine an overly-enthusiastic man and woman wearing brightly-patterned jumpers, erecting a wobbly structure made of pipe cleaners which is …

According to the GLA website the plans for the redevelopment of the Royal London Hospital have finally been…erm, finalised. Ken wasn’t happy with the original plans because they made it “difficult for people to find their way around” and were just too damn fugly for …

The BBC reports that London Underground has placed vintage posters around the tube network to announce the arrival of Spring. The posters were selected form the archive of the London Transport Museum and were originally produced to “encourage Londoners to use the Tube as one …

In order to show our readers that Urban Junkies is a really worthwhile addition to Londonist, we took their event advice and checked out the Under A Tenner installation at the Design Museum. We made our way down the Shad Thames (which was unfortunately overrun …