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Let’s visit! WYCOMBE MUSEUM - official video guide

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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. Offeri

Let's plan a visit! HUGHENDEN MANOR (High Wycombe) - official video guide

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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)  LOCATION. ☞ As

What’s to see “Praneet Soi, Anamorphosis: Notes from Palestine, Winter in the Kashmir Valley” (MOSAIC ROOMS, London) - official video review

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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