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Your guide to a half day at HAMPTON COURT PALACE! Complete directions and hidden gems - official video guide

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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  || From He

SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY “Writing in Times of Conflict” - official video review

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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 EXHIBITS.

BRITISH MUSEUM, Room 3: “Nara: Sacred Images from Early Japan” - official video review

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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

PUSHKIN HOUSE “Margarita Gluzberg: In Paradise” - official video review

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LOCATION. This is one of those very “Central London” attractions. And surrounded by super big ones. Closest station: Holborn. Exit the station. Walk north along Southampton Row. Turn left and you’ll be walking past Bloomsbury Square. Keep walking westward and the house is at the other corner of the square. PUSHKIN HOUSE “Margarita Gluzberg: In Paradise” ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY. The painter’s recollections of the west, starting from films and cartoons and ending in. Well you gotta decide for yourself don’t you? Clip: PUSHKIN HOUSE “Margarita Gluzberg: In Paradise” CURATIONAL CHOICE. You’ll see this competition of presentation spaces, where the relatable sits where you’ll first see - the ground floor library, the staircases. And whatever that contradicts this formula, is exiled, to the next floor. The main gallery. You’re thus first baited with characters and joyous recollections before the artist turns completely inward. With pencilled memories of actual film