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Hidden well within a golf course, this Grade I-listed mansion remains a mystery even for many Londoners. And it rarely opens: read the following instructions carefully. Built 1720s. Designed by Thornhill. Much has been changed though, as the house has been changing hands a great number of times with some tenants specialized in selling off stuff for their debts. After all these reboots it currently is both a golf club and an event venue (which explains why it has so many dining rooms now). One of the dining rooms: MOOR PARK MANSION (London)  LOCATION. First you have to get to one of  the entrances of Moor Park Golf Course. There are many options here with public transport, none of which can save you from hiking your lazy bottoms. Walking from Moor Park tube station is obviously one of them. You can also start from Northwood tube station and take any bus that brings you towards Mount Vernon Hospital. From there, start a 25-minute hike – you’ll be walking n...

LOCATION. Nearest DLR station: Mudchute. As you get off the train, Mudchute Park is right beside you and to your east. You’ll have to walk past the park to the other side for the farm. Clip: MUDCHUTE FARM (London) THE LONDON ANIMAL SCENE. This is one of the few casual places to see animals without having to cross M25. Imagine a place we can walk in to interact with some cutie cuties then head back to work. That kind of attraction. If that’s what you want, the Central London choice you can find would be Vauxhall City Farm if you’re ever close to south bank. If you’re open to a short train ride to West London and couldn’t care less on getting lost in a forest then a golf course before finding that teeny-tiny entrance, you can also try the Hanwell Zoo . MUDCHUTE FARM (London) Mudchute Farm is instead for those in the East and wouldn’t mind a DLR ride. Or if you’d like a short walk, you can also talk a stroll from Canary Wharf. It takes a little less than half an hou...

LOCATION. Closest station: Charing Cross. Exit the station and get onto the Strand, then walk west towards the square with big dogs with hair. At the traffic circle, turn southeast into Northumberland Avenue and walk for another minute. VENUE. This is the official entry point for the promotion of Korean culture to Britain, or as the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism puts it – “to enhance friendship, amity and understanding” between the two countries. “Circulation metaphor” (Korean Cultural Centre UK) FLOWERY NARRATIVE. Circular Metaphor shows us the never-ending relationships between nature and human activities - and their “circular communication”. And to celebrate having a UNESCO creative city in South Korea (there are currently two – Bucheon for literature and Daegu Metropolitan for music). Clip: “Circulation metaphor” (Korean Cultural Centre UK) ANYTHING FUN? The exhibits are as diverse as they can be, and in the centre is this ceramic city ...

LOCATION. As you walk from North Greenwich Station to the O2, the gallery will be to your right within one minute. Look for a curved-glass structure with an elaborate reception. BACKDROP. At some point we should start imagining North Greenwich as a peninsula far too commercialized for many. You’ve got a stadium filled with ever more brand names to be surrounded by even more overpriced new flats. But if you like art, you can either follow The Line art walk for an outdoorsy experience or – if it starts to drizzle – here at the Now Gallery. You’ll realize how customer friendly it is, for an ongoing benefit of these themed showcases is that its exhibitions let you sit . And the rights to sit can be huge in any shopping space. “Kinska: My opera house” (Now Gallery) PROMOTIONAL NARRATIVE. Kinska had a ceramic hip surgery and had to stay in the hospital. Which gave her plenty of time to hand-draw these cartoon sketch books while in hospital beds followed by sculptures mad...

LOCATION. Closest station: Stubentor. Exit the station and walk east for two minutes. The museum is at the corner of Stubenring right across the picnic meadows. Or you can walk from the opposite direction from Wien Mitte Station – especially if you come from the airport. Just walk across the river canal and you’ll be there in three minutes. “MAK – Museum of Applied Art” (Vienna) THE EXHIBITIONS. Last time we were in Leopold Museum  and we have seen Vienna 1900 - a permanent exhibition on paintings, architecture, furnishing and all kinds of “applied” design. And now here you’ll find the remaining half of it. The rest of the perm (photo) entails a furniture collection from the last five hundred years with substantial congeries of East Asian imports. The galleries are dark and greenhouse-hot – it was a steaming summer day after all. Clip: “MAK – Museum of Applied Art” (Vienna) Compare this hardship with all these temporary exhibitions (clip). Occupying more ...

LOCATION. Nearest station: Nestroyplatz. Exit the station, walk northeast, and you'll see the apartment building to your right. WHO'S WHO.  The apartment belongs to Johann Strauss II, and not the long list of Strauss' you've heard elsewhere. "Johann Strauss Apartment" (Vienna) As you enter the first room (the one with his piano), to your left you’ll have to activate an ultra insensitive sensor hidden under the title-page display. Wave at it again and again until Blue Danube starts to play. And then with the mood being set, you’ll realize what it’s like to be the one-song man he’s become in pop culture. With the first room arranged to be more of a “Museum of Blue Danube”. Luckily, this pop conception is to be expanded in the next room, with his novel attempts (e.g. operettas) and juicy re-re-marriages exposed. Clip: "Johann Strauss Apartment" (Vienna) HERITAGE. Strauss lived here from 1863 to 1870. The Blue Danube was comp...

LOCATION. A twelve-minute walk from Vienna Central Station. Exit the station on the east and walk along Karl-Popper-Strasse. Turn left into Ghegastrasse and enjoy the view of gentrified apartments and constructions all around you. Keep walking till you reach a park, then turn right into this red-bricked establishment. The museum is right in the middle behind a lake / fountain. “Museum of Military History” (Vienna) LANGUAGES. They’ve got an app. So download it before you go up those stairs. Otherwise, like me you’ll have to rely on the stacks of A4 paper in each gallery, a spectacular leaflet display in twelve office paper colours from twelve languages. And the more you insist on finding what specifically each page is telling you, the more you’ll also realize how heavily they come with these random obscure directives. Imagine trying to find the "wall behind" or the "wall next to it" as you move from exhibit to exhibit. Clip: “Museum of Mili...

LOCATION. A four minute-walk from MuseumsQuartier Station. THE BIGGER PICTURE. Located within MuseumsQuartier – a Brobdingnagian collection of exhibits, galleries and studios. Imagine an art district famous for its snazzy contemporary art and comprises squares and blocks and atriums and outdoor sofa-beds. “Leopold Museum” (Vienna) In other words, being here is to find yourself in a timesinking black hole of showcases for serious tourists. As you walk past its entrance, and unless you’re on a ten-day trip – you’ll realize it’s impossible to explore everything from gargantuan galleries to indie workshops. But then at least look for this renowned “Leopold Museum”, a giant cube for modern arts in the middle of a square. It’s Viennesey, and as such perfect for “foreigners” who’d like to know more about the city – similar to Vienna’s Art History Museum  – but so much more focused on the very city you’re standing on (imagine a crossover with city museums: recall our...

LOCATION. The apartment building is to the west of the city centre close to the University of Vienna. And hence not quite the St.-Stephen’s-and-friends attractions that we’ve been covering so far. Closest tram station: Schottentor. Leave the tram and walk south for another minute. Turn left and you’ll see a cliff right ahead. Take the stairs at the either side, walk up. The house is at the top of the cliff accompanied by Beethoven-themed outlets. Beethoven Pasqualati House (Vienna) ETYMOLOGY. The quirky name “Pasqualati” might be entirely foreign to us, but is simply the surname of the house owner whose son (another Pasqualati obviously) has been Beethoven’s close friend. HERITAGE. Beethoven lived here twice, 1804-08 and 1810-14. Outside this period he was to stay over occasionally. Clip: Beethoven Pasqualati House (Vienna) COMPOSITION. Fur Elise, Fidelio as well as the 5th were composed here. EXISTING CONDITION. You’ll have to walk up flights of stair...

LOCATION. Nearest station: Stephansplatz. A six-minute walk from St. Stephen’s Cathedral, exit the cathedral, go north and take your second left. If you see a bunch of tourists shooting their phones to the sky, don’t panic – it’s probably the Anker Clock, a bizarre Art Nouveau copper piece featuring twelve historical figures moving through the hours. Fitted with a “clock face” that could riddle you till the next. Walk past the clock for another twenty seconds. Roman Museum (Vienna) HERITAGE. The museum is built on top of a legionary fortress, first to fifth century. Much of the establishment spreads over the streets around the area; what is shown here is only one of the houses within the fortress. Discovered 1948 during the building of a sewer. Exhibitions go through what it’s like to live in Vindobona, the Roman settlement that is present-day Vienna. The settlement guards the Roman Empire’s northern border. It contains a mix of civilians both local and Roman as well a...