Clockwork aircraft boat, Espana, by Paya, about 1930 -Photo Arnaud Fux In the second of four posts on our Museum of the Month – The Maritime Galleries – we take a look at the new Toy Boats exhibition that curator, Kristian Martin, enthusiastically showed us …
Decisions on two major museum extension projects were announced yesterday, with news both good and bad. Let’s get the bad out of the way: the proposed new wing of the British Museum was unceremoniously shot down by Camden Council. Despite planning officers, Cabe and English …
A new extension and public space for Greenwich Bloody hell, is there something in the water when it comes to museums and their extensions? Images of the National Maritime Museum’s new wing have been released and immediately (and unkindly, we think) dubbed a ‘toast rack‘. …
90. The Ghouls of Greenwich Several decades ago, author Elliot O’ Donnell recorded many famous and obscure apparitions in his books. On the 24th July 1898, the writer claimed to have had a weird encounter with a ‘nature spirit’, as he described it, whilst he …
It’s only June, but it’ll take an awful lot to topple Sammy Ofer as Londonist’s Person of the Year. Having already pledged £20 million for a new wing at the National Maritime Museum, the Israeli shipping magnate has now ensured the full restoration of the …
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, proud resident of the handsome World Heritage-listed site that gazes imperiously across the River at the Mammon-fuelled glazed monstrosities of Canary Wharf, today has even more reason to be puffed up with pride. An Israeli billionaire has donated £20 …
No, Helen Mirren’s academy award hasn’t been thrown overboard, but London’s favourite battleship, HMS Belfast, has lost Oscar – one of its two cats. We’re keeping our hopes alive that the ginger moggy hasn’t drowned as he apparently tried in vain to find the other …
Well it’s awfully good of that nice Mr. Livingstone to organise stuff in Trafalgar Square, and we are all too sorry that we didn’t have time to go to his Diwali day on Sunday 28th October. But Londonist would remind you that Diwali isn’t actually …
Remember Rentaghost? That’s right, the kids show from the early ‘80s, in which spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools were available for hire, and proceeded to act very camply. Perhaps electronic artist/architect/handyman Usman Haque has a 21st Century version of the service in mind, …
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