Museum

Churchill, The Sculpture Years

One of the high points for the Londonist of the recent spate of interactive TV voting type shows was BBC2s Greatest Britons series, an example of how the genre can be interesting and informative, stimulate debate, and really engage the viewer. This isn’t bad for …

Biscuit Showcase

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 …

Rubbish Heist At British Museum

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 …

London’s Cultural Refurb’

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 …

Happy Birthday Holmes

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 …

Free Stuff That Doesn’t Involve Booze Or Food

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, …

Heist, Heist, Baby

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 …

Two Thousand Years of London Bridge

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 …

Brain Surgery Live

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 …