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BEARLAND HOUSE (Gloucester) ETYMOLOGY. Legends have it: "Bearland" is a possible variant of "bare land".  Clip: BEARLAND HOUSE (Gloucester) CONDITION. Now occupied by high-end shirt maker EW with an actual workshop ground floor (next to main entrance). Date of visit: 2020.09 Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize .

Gloucester Prison AREA INCLUDED. Staffer space, playground, woman's prison and medical facility, young offenders and the three-storey main prison Clip: Gloucester Prison GUIDED TOUR. Visits are with guided tours only. Requires pre-booking. You'll be bombarded with the fascinating stories of smuggling goods into our country's prisons but later turning into gore and haunted stories. Tour chosen: two-hour adult themed Date of visit: 2020.09 Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

WHAT TO SEE. - THE ROLE OF Glocestershire soldiers during WWII especially the Battle of Britain and D Day.  JET AGE MUSEUM - Aircraft manufacturers including Gloster Aircraft - Close contact with versions of Gloster Meteor. But no touching.  Clip: JET AGE MUSEUM - Gloster Gamecock. DON'T MISS. Cockpit tours and aircraft on display in the back garden.  JET AGE MUSEUM: wooden wing HOW TO GET THERE. Take the bus 94 Gold from Gloucester towards Cheltenham. Get off at Safran Station. Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Date visited: 2020.09 Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

  Fleece Hotel: main entrance WHAT IT WAS. A hostelry from 1498.    Clip: Fleece Hotel (undercroft pub site) WHAT IT IS. The whole building has long been abandoned from its upper floors to the undercroft.  Clip: Fleece Hotel (main entrance) Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Visited: 2020.09 Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

WHAT IT IS. A shelter for Welsh refugees, established 1136. The rest of the estate is of a later date: a 14-15 c. stable, 15 c. barn, 16 c. range and Victorian farmhouse.  LLanthony Seconda Priory (Gloucester) STATUS. Following conservation efforts, now fitted with lawns and modern lighting and backstage offices. Clip: LLanthony Seconda Priory (Gloucester) WHAT'S ON. LLanthony-inspired artwork on display.   Clip: LLanthony Seconda Priory (Gloucester) Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Visited: 2020.09 Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

Lightship Sula (Gloucester) NOMENCLATURE. "Sula" was the name given by the ship's previous owner.  Clip: Lightship Sula (Gloucester) CONSERVATION. One of its mushroom anchors was kept. Together with post-war equipment, a compass and chain navigation wheel (rare).  WHATZ BOUT LIGHTSHIP?! A lightship gives out light signals where there's no rocks to build lighthouses. STATUS. Now a hotel providing short-term accommodation. Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Date visited: 2020.09 (Heritage Open Days weekend) Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

The Folk of Gloucester (originally Gloucester Folk Museum then Gloucester Life Museum) A.k.a. Gloucester Folk Museum a.k.a. Gloucester Life Museum, there has been a bit of a struggling with its branding. Originally a pin factory, and truly a "magical place" - it is a museum in limbo struggling to reopen and now only available this Heritage Open Days weekend.  With random artifacts featuring a typewriter, roll, Gloucestershire pig, black dog, grasshopper, rugby, printing press, paintings, wedding dresses and a bedroom (photo).  (Random update: The museum no longer features a Victorian classroom, having moved a few blocks away.)   Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Visited: 2020.09 Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

West End's percussionist ROSIE BERGONZI breaks down the mystics of West End's improv rehearsals. Some of Rosie's involvements: Musical Rumpus (2017) The Hogboon (2016) Migration Game (2016) Acts of Defiance (2016) Rudiments (2016) More on Rosie's channel - youtube.com/channel/UC7W_owKnAPisV2RRsfMZvrA Watch the video: Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

Get to know lighting: chats with DAMIAN ROBERTSON West End's Damian Robertson on his experiences in lighting design. And being an improviser. Some of Damian's involvements - "Showstopper! The Improvised Musical" - lighting improviser / technician "Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel" - lighting improviser / tour manager Watch the video: The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Let's see how everyone's doing! #ThisisHowWeKeepWalking Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

West End's Renee Montemayor on agents, starting a production company, and more. Renee Montemayor's involvements - Princess Ying Yoewlak (THE KING AND I), London Palladium Ensemble, Understudy Kim & Gigi (MISS SAIGON), Theatre Royal Drury Lane Alice (DICK WHITTINGTON), Greenwich theatre Princess (ALADDIN), Chatham Theatre Carla Velasquez, Understudy Liat (SOUTH PACIFIC), Royal National Theatre And many more on her channel: YouTube.com/ReneeMontemayor Watch the video: The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Let's see how everyone's doing! #ThisisHowWeKeepWalking Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

West End's Andrew McDonald dissects how we've entered a world of online rehearsals. #ThisisHowWeKeepWalking   Andrew's recent involvements: 2019 David Rothman, "The Indomitable Mrs Rothman", Union Theatre 2019 Reece, "Lies Low", Noel Coward Studio 2018 Emperor of China, "Aladdin", Bushey Arena 2018 Tom, "Kiss/Chase", The Bunker Watch the video: The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

Tarek Merchant explains the variety of musical directing jobs and how he was hedging his earlier career.   Watch the show:  Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

WHAT IT IS.  The shopfront Betrix Potter visited during her Gloucester trip, who immortalized it with her illustrated storybook  The Tailor of Gloucester (1903).  THE HOUSE OF THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER WHAT'S ON. Permanent museum upstairs. Featuring photos and Potter's illustrations side by side, the original story she heard here (inspired the book) and the subsequent painful word cuts and other editorial changes to her manuscript.  Also in the middle of the room is a race game (clip) with 124 squares to go. Clip: THE HOUSE OF THE TAILOR OF GLOUCESTER  WHERE IT IS. The shop is on a small alley so it takes time to find it. Exit Gloucester Station, cross the main road, turn right and walk along Station Road. Turn left into Clarance Street until you reach Eastgate Street. You then walk all the way and continue on to Westgate Street. Turn into the alley College Court to your right. This little gemstone attraction is right inside. If you instead see th...

WHAT IT IS. Only remaining structure of the 15th century, Church of St. Michael the Archangel.  St. Michael's Tower (Gloucester) ON EXHIBITION. Boards on the royalist siege. And the "Gloucester Day", celebrating the day it was over, only to be cancelled during the restoration and until recently having a modern revival. Church bells, their history, and Gloucester's proud bellfounding in general. Clip: St. Michael's Tower (Gloucester) HOW TO GET HERE. At the centre of the very city centre - the crossroads of Westgate, Eastgate, Southgate and Northgate Street! Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Visited: 2020.09 Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

WHAT TO SEE.  G/F - River Severn being the longest river in Britain (all the way from Wales through Gloucester to Bristol). The role of canals in Gloucester. 1/F - hardship working and living on waterways (clip). Contrarily - how Gloucester developed pleasure boating in the 20th century. 2/F - artifacts (that may or may not) relate to waterways (photo). NATIONAL WATERWAYS MUSEUM (Gloucester) GETTING THERE. Closest station: Gloucester. Exit the station, cross the main road and keep walking. Turn right and then left into Clarence Street. Walk through and you'll arrive Spa Street. Turn right and along until you reach the dockland and warehouses. The museum is at the corner of the square on Llanthony Road. Clip: NATIONAL WATERWAYS MUSEUM (Gloucester) Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in a novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Visited: 2020.09 Tags - in_dept...

The museum consists of two floors. PERM EXHIBITION (G/F). This floor is all about history.  But as per local museum convention (Warwick's Market Hall is particularly at fault here), you're not starting anywhere near the town. Which means we have to travel back to the Palaeozic, play games with the dinosaurs, then dive 65000000 years into the Romans. You get to revise world history with Gloucester's all at the same time. Clip: Museum of Gloucester (G/F) TEMP EXHIBITION (1/F).  Upstairs you'll find two temporary exhibitions - William Simmonds' puppeteering and the life stories of people of colour. Museum of Gloucester (1/F, temporary exhibition halls) HOW TO GET THERE. Closest station: Gloucester Station. Walk out of the station, cross Bruton Way and keep walking. Turn right until you see Kings Walk Shopping Centre and Car Park. At this point turn left into Clarence Street. Keep on and after two corners the museum is to your right. (Note: the library and the...

WHAT IT IS. 12th century, Norman castle. WHAT'S SO SPECIAL. Dover is Britain's closest point to Europe. This is the place to put a castle for a surprise attack from (Henry VIII's nightmare!) the Pope, or France.   Clip: Dover Castle THE CASTLE. The Keep at the centre with the Great Tower is the main course of your visit.  On the opposite side of the cafe is The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment and Queen's Regiment Museum. Here you'll review how Norman England's amateur recruits professionalized during Elizabeth I's reign, followed by waves of campaign against the French and all the way up to WWII and Afghanistan. Photo: Dover Castle HIDDEN GEMS. Don't miss the medieval tunnels. Go through the castle's northwest gate (photo). Get down the wooden stairs near the wall and the tunnel's entrance is right under. Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel ...

WHAT IT IS.    A Roman house, built 2nd century. WHAT'S SO SPECIAL.    The painted decorations can be seen on the walls - a rare glimpse into Dover's Roman interior design. WHY.   The Romans were to build a wall right across the house between Rooms 3 and 4. For some reason they decided not to demolish the whole thing, but to throw away the roof and cast in rubble and plaster. Thanks to this awkward disposal, Room 2 and 3's painted walls were sealed and preserved. ROMAN PAINTED HOUSE (Dover) WHAT YOU GET.   You'll get a booklet for free at the reception. Clip: ROMAN PAINTED HOUSE (Dover) DISCOVERY.   Discovered 1970. The Rescue Unit had 90 days to find anything, or a car park would be built. The car park was never built. WHAT ELSE.   A random collection of findings from the archaeological unit, from hippo and human remains to Roman pottery. WARS RESTRICTION.   You'll have to wear a mask. Only the upper floor is open....

For Nixon Rosembert (Reasons to be Cheerful, bassist) it's very different to work on a drama tour than a Mariah Carey show. The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Let's see how everyone's doing! Watch the show: Or watch it on facebook . Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize .

ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY.  A review of engineering works on tap water, flood prevention and sewer systems.  "Exhibition 2020 Water: From Source to Tap" (INSTITUTION of CIVIL ENGINEERS) Attraction within 5-min walk: Guards Museum Jewel Tower Pyx Chamber (Westminster Abbey) Chapter House (Westminster Abbey) WHERE TO START.  Exhibits not in any particular order—although, you can start with a "hut" at the end of the corridor, which loops on with an intro video. The clip will run through engineering inventions throughout history, from lighthouses to combustion engines and from post war urban design to recent discoveries. Clip: "Exhibition 2020 Water: From Source to Tap" (INSTITUTION of CIVIL ENGINEERS) HIDDEN GEMS. Behind the hut is a hidden corner dedicated to Joseph Bazalgette, designer of London's sewer system (opened 1866). Fun fact—The system contributed to the end of London's pandemic cholera outbreaks. (Interested in ...

Turns out it starts with one simple basic principle. The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Let's see how everyone's doing! Watch the show: Sarah-Jayne's recent appearances - Warner, "Thark" (Park Theatre) Ensemble, "This House" (National Theatre) Vicki, "Love Me 'Till Monday" Betsy Miles, "A Foreplay" Or watch the show on facebook. Problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize .

WHAT IT IS.  A compilation of Henderson's collages, 40s through 70s. "Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage" (TATE BRITAIN)  THEMES.  Autobiography, distorted portraits, symbolisms on history, life and previous jobs etc., anything from his home (read: huge collection of printed materials), statements on historic Britain... WHERE TO START.  An hour-long intro video will tell you everything. Enter the gallery room from the atrium, sit down by the entrance and see for yourself. Clip: "Vital Fragments: Nigel Henderson and the Art of Collage" (TATE BRITAIN) (If you're wondering what's that noise next door—school activities in the atrium dictate students to yell out slogans as they engage with McQueen's artwork, a collection of school photos on 76,000 kids.) Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the phot...

WHEN.  On the first Sunday of February, every year—mark it down! "Annual Grimaldi Service" (ALL SAINTS CHURCH DALSTON) WHAT IT IS.   If you've been to the Clowns' Gallery-Museum (now closed unfortunately), you should have heard of this annual service named after Grimaldi, the father of British clowning. You'll be seeing clowns from start to finish: clown dramas, prayer for lost clowns, clown-themed sermon, with clowns from all over the world in the audience and also on-stage. NEARBY ATTRACTIONS (walking distance)  - Hackney City Farm The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History Museum of the Home (planned reopening late 2020) Do stay after the service for a clown show, happening after a break. Preparation. "Annual Grimaldi Service" (ALL SAINTS CHURCH DALSTON) THE CATCH.   Sadly, the information you find online is not only sparse but sometimes conflicting. The service starts at 3 p.m. bu...

The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Let's see how everyone's doing! Robin's recent showcases - 2019. Lead, STRANGE TALES (Grid Iron & Traverse Theatre) 2018/19. Idiot / Assistant Director, LET ME PLAY THE LION TOO (Told by an Idiot) 2019.Tian Hao, SAFETY NET (Reallusion Culture) 2018. Kay, Crow, Prince, Robber Mum, Pigeon, Brae, THE SNOW QUEEN (Quantum Theatre) 2018. Warrior, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD (Barons Court Theatre) Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger

The current lockdown poses one of the biggest challenges to UK theatres since the London theatre closure of 1642. Let's see how everyone's doing! Dan Buckley's recent showcases - OOR WULLIE (2020), Dundee Rep Norman, NORMALITY (2019), Up Piccadilly FIVER(2019), Southwark Playhouse Feris, EUGENIUS! (2018), The Other Palace Dougal, THE SEASON (2018) Man 2, FIVER (2017), Crazy Coqs Davey Wheeler, DEAD SIMPLE (2017), Mill at Sonning Constable, CHRISTIE IN LOVE (2016), Rough Haired Pointer Watch the clip on my facebook page . Theatre updates? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize .

WHAT IT IS ☞A showcase on yellow things, books that are yellow, and cardboard artwork and documents and excerpts that are yellow. And the poets’ magazine  Yellow Book , published 1894-1897. WESTMINSTER REFERENCE LIBRARY: “The Yellow Book Exhibition: Contemporary Poets Respond to the Short-lived but Influential Illustrated Quarterly Magazine” Fitted with regular talks if you come on the right evening. (You will find an exhibition area on paintings right behind the next shelf, changing regularly. Here’s one in 2018 .) Clip: WESTMINSTER REFERENCE LIBRARY: “The Yellow Book Exhibition: Contemporary Poets Respond to the Short-lived but Influential Illustrated Quarterly Magazine” Nearby attractions within a five-minute walk - National Gallery [ and this ] National Portrait Gallery Canada Gallery Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the photo of the day and fini...

WHAT IT IS. ☞ Charles I’s palladian ceremonial hall originally standing awkwardly in the midst of Tudorian houses. ARTISTIC VALUE. ☞ The ceiling is a foreign commission, made by the one and only, Peter Paul Rubens. BANQUETING HOUSE (London) HISTORIC VALUE. ☞ The last house standing from the Whitehall Palace - the fire of 1698 destroyed the entire palace except this. Charles I was executed right outside the house. Clip: BANQUETING HOUSE (London) WHAT TO DO. ☞ G/F : Watch an educational video in the chamber here. 1/F (clip) : You’ll find these tablets mounted in the middle of the hall, and there you can find all the information you need. The screen keeps returning to the homepage. Which is annoying. Move the cursor constantly to avoid it. FUN FACT. ☞ Turn left as you enter the main hall and you’ll see the problem of oval frames: a character’s head is cut off due to mismeasurement. The figure happens to be Ignorance and in the scene he’s being overcome by...

CATEGORY. ☞ local museum. IN ONE SENTENCE. ☞ Introducing Wycombe as used to be the world's “chair making capital” (as ambitiously claimed in the leaflets). WYCOMBE MUSEUM  1/F. ☞ A small art gallery. Factory and workers’ life. History of the town's chair-making factories. You’ll also find photos of magnificent “chair arches”: an bowed gate made of chairs to welcome Queen Victoria and other VIPs. The rest is an entire corridor dedicated to local artifacts, in chronological order, starting from a lithic axe. The labels are in the process of being replaced, and you’ll see how the rest consists of curious descriptions on blue-tagged office paper. Here’s an example: an object labelled as “Other World War 2 items (will be replaced soon with World War 1 items)”. Clip: 1/F, WYCOMBE MUSEUM G/F. ☞ Recreated war trench, kept from a WWI exhibition (clip). Information on the very building (Castle Hill House) to be found on the walls at random places. Offer...

WHAT IT IS. ☞ Twice former-Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli’s home, and a top secret mapmaking facility during WWII. DISRAELI’S HOME. ☞ This comes in the form of period rooms on G/F (photo). Staffers and notes will illuminate much of the furniture and items, but you’ll pretty much need our big brother google for information on the house owners. G/F, HUGHENDEN MANOR (High Wycombe)  MAPMAKING. ☞ This part of the manor’s history came as a surprise in 2004, when a volunteer overheard visitors chatting about the house’s secret use during WWII. Further research was conducted, and with interviews and documents released through the Official Secrets Act, more details of the mapmaking activities were to surface in the following years. This has accumulated into an exhibition in the basement (which is sadly now closed) and now occupying the first (clip) and the remaining ground floor. Second floor is closed. Clip: 1/F, HUGHENDEN MANOR (High Wycombe)  LO...

ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY. A solo exhibition linking the hardship of both territories. Exhibits occupy both the ground floor galleries and the basement. G/F: Sketches and diaries based on interviews in Palestine (clip). Basement: Craft works (photo) surrounded by cold political statements, the Indian Constitution and Kashmir’s independence declarations. “Praneet Soi, Anamorphosis: Notes from Palestine, Winter in the Kashmir Valley” (MOSAIC ROOMS, London) LOCATION. Nearest station: Earl’s Court. As you exit the station, go across the street then all the way north, north, north. The Mosaic Road is right across Cromwell Road. Clip: “Praneet Soi, Anamorphosis: Notes from Palestine, Winter in the Kashmir Valley” (MOSAIC ROOMS, London) FEES. Free entry for all. BEFORE YOU VISIT. The website is pretty ambiguous on its holiday opening hours. To avoid disappointment, enquire before your journey. Travel problem? Let's chat . Time is asset: save it for better wi...

 WHAT IT IS. Features the 80 winners from 300 nominee designs. All the works are listed in the basement entrance lobby (the walls besides the staircase) with a simple description. (Now that you're here - you may also check the museum's permanent exhibitions  for free.) 2019 “Beazley Designs of the Year” (DESIGN MUSEUM, London)  WHERE IT IS. Basement floor of the Design Museum. Closest station: Kensington (Olympia), or Holland Park. If you come from Holland Park, exit the station and walk south along Holland Park then turn left into... Holland Park. You’re then to further walk south all the way to the other side of the park. If you do not want to get lost into the orangery or opera house, there’s a jogger’s path along the park’s east side which cuts right across. The museum’s next to Kensington High Street. Clip: 2019 “Beazley Designs of the Year” (DESIGN MUSEUM, London)  COSTS. £ 12 per person. You can get tickets online. Do finish ...

The palace is divided into four areas - Tudorian kitchen, Tudorian apartments, Stuart, and Georgian. It’s only logical to follow this chronological order, and insert royal collections and the garden as you walk past them (see below). There’re a number of hidden gems that would likely be missed by a sloopy tourist - you don’t want to be one do you? Marked in red . So here we go. Clip: Henry VIII's kitchens, HAMPTON COURT PALACE Stop #1. TUDORIAN || After getting your tickets you might as well start just next door - Henry VIII’s kitchen. Live actors will be roasting beef joint and making sugar sculptures. Following onto Henry VIII’s apartments, try not to miss out the live action. Musicians with period instruments. Actors. And there’re also a number of kid’s activities depending on the time; in the clip below you’ll see Elizabeth I consulting them for her deepest troubles. Henry VIII's apartments, HAMPTON COURT PALACE #2. ROYAL COLLECTIONS  || F...

FREQUENCY. Senate House’s exhibitions change twice a year. So expect to come once on a hot summer day and the other - this. LOCATION.   Nearest station: Russell Square. Exit the station and turn left into the Square. Keep walking to the next corner, then turn left and walk past Wiener Holocaust Library . You’ll see a small alley to your right. Walk to its very end to head to the reception through a glass door. Take the lift or stairs to the fourth floor for the library. SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY “Writing in Times of Conflict” - official video review CURATIONAL CHANGES. They’ve finally decided to divide the area into sections. So “Writing for peace” goes to one corner, “Writing in protest” for another etc. All shown on a map that turns out to be excessively simplified. Imagine what it’s like to have coloured geometric shapes that are too surreal for anyone to decipher. Clip: SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY “Writing in Times of Conflict” - official video review ...

LOCATION. You can consider “Room 3” as sort of the showroom of British Museum. As you enter the building from the main entrance, turn right and you’ll see it. BRITISH MUSEUM “Nara” HIGHLIGHT. The Brodingnagian painting at the centre will capture every passerby’s attention. It’s a replica. The original was destroyed together with the fire of Horyu-ji temple. So in every sense, this is the original that you’ll ever find. BRITISH MUSEUM “Nara” CURATIONAL CHOICE. Every effort is made to draw you to the Japanese galleries on the fifth floor. And that’s why I call it the “show room”. Let's chat about your travel. Time is asset: save it for better with a 25-min museum tour . Or find yourself in my novel , check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize . Date of visit: 2019.10 Tags - in_depth_tourism; museum; London_writer; London_travel; indie_writer; independent_blogger