Museum

Everybody likes biscuits, maybe some people a little too much, but at least one biscuit company will have a dedicated exhibition about it at The Pumphouse Educational Museum in Rotherhithe, south-east London. Peek Frean and Co, a Bermondsey based biscuit company which closed down in …

Did anyone else hear of the “almost” theft yesterday at the British Museum? It appears that a security guard tackled a man he caught trying to lift the top off a case of small artifacts from the Roman and Greek area of the museum. The …

A few stories have popped up in the papers over the past few days which point to a bit of a cash injection in the capital’s cultural artery (did we just mix our metaphors then? Apologies if we did). Here’s a quick rundown of the …

Today is the ‘birthday’ of London’s most famous, fictitious detective and the most celebrated resident of Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes. The New York Sun seems to be the only paper celebrating the anniversary with this article on the Baker Street Irregulars (the contemporary society not …

It’s January. You’re skint and slightly heavier than you were this time last month. You’ve probably sworn off the booze for a bit and if you see another box of Cadbury’s Heroes you’re likely to throw up. So, in the spirit of the post-Xmas period, …

Londonist loves a good heist film, and has wiled away many an hour working out how to traverse our working environment without touching the floor and evading non-existent infra-red beams. But lately we’ve been getting a sneaking suspicion that a snappy black, poloneck jumper and …

Peter Lennard is the founder of The London Bridge Museum and Educational Trust, an organisation whose aim is to create “a dedicated Museum as a worthy tribute to the world’s most famous bridge.” (And if you’re thinking ‘hang on, where are they going to put …

The Dana Centre is the experimental wing of the Science Museum. A collaboration between the museum, the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the European Dana Alliance for the Brain, the state of the art venue bills itself as a place which deliver …