Lord Sainsbury (the Tory one) has gifted £25 million to the British Museum, the largest donation to the arts for two decades. The pledge will go a long way to ensuring construction of a new £135 million World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre, to be tucked …
Image courtesy of Sir John Soane’s Museum. A closer look at one of the key exhibits at our Museum of the Month. One of the more arrestingly eccentric additions to the Soane collection – which is saying something, being nestled as it is below a …
OK, it’s a slightly different confrontation, but we used to heart this game. It’s a tedious, banal question, which Time Out would doubtless still pursue every 10 issues if they weren’t so focused on chronicling every cupcake-smeared floorboard in every new East-end pop-up fancy dress …
The wonderful, skeletal, taxidermical marvel that is the Grant Museum of Zoology is to shut up shop on 1 July for at least half a year. The cramped closet of anatomy is shifting from its current home on Gower Street to more roomy quarters. From …
This week’s quiz is in honour of the Museum of London’s stunning new galleries. How much do you know about the capital’s rich variety of museums? (And it’s a wee bit easier this week, honest.) London Museums » fun quizzes Let us know if you …
Deciding how to spend next Friday night is going to be tough with an curatorial cacophony of late night events happening all over London for Museums at Night. We’ve scuttled through the listings and bring you some quirky and niche recommendations: By Anatoleya via the …
The Magic Circle, that famous club of magicians, has since 1998 enjoyed headquarters at 12 Stephenson Way, Euston, a cobbled street that has a touch of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell about it. Inside, a magnificent set of rooms houses a theatre, museum of illusion …
Sony award nominated ‘Rising Star’ and Hoxton resident, Jarvis Cocker was at St Pancras International this morning to launch Eurostar’s Culture Connect scheme, encouraging cross channel passengers to visit iconic cultural institutions in London, Paris and Brussels. Spending roughly half his time in Paris, Jarvis …
Since it first lowered gantry in 2003, the Museum of London Docklands has demanded a fiver from adult visitors. Not any more. The nautical institution in West India Quay is now free for anyone to visit, in harmony with its sister museum (the Museum of …
By shimmeringmercury The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance figures sees the Saatchi Gallery trump the national big boys for special exhibition popularity. ‘The Revolution Continues’ was the 28th most visited art exhibition in the world in 2009, whilst that and ‘Unveiled: New Art …
Picadilly Revisited at the Royal Opera House: music and film exploring the life and loves of Hollywood’s first Chinese film star, Anna May Wong With a few work-free days over Easter, chances are you might be looking for something cultural and entertaining to do in …
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