Master Jonjon Tourist Videos

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

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 ...

WHO SHOULD GO. If you like secret exhibition - it’s so well-hid not even a poster you’ll be seeing outside. ROYAL SOCIETY “Fiery Earth: The Volcano and the Royal Society” - official video review LOCATION. St. James. Nearest station: Charing Cross. As you exit the station onto the Strand, walk southwest across the traffic circle. Continue at the opposite side and along The Mall. As you get past the Institute of Contemporary Arts, go right and up the stairs. Keep heading southwest along Carlton House Terrace. The Royal Society will be to your left in a minute. Clip: ROYAL SOCIETY “Fiery Earth: The Volcano and the Royal Society” - official video review WHAT TO SEE. Go down two floors and you’ll be seeing “Fiery Earth”. An expedition to Krakatoa, the Indonesian island whose eruption in 1883 has stirred up studies and reports from the RS. From documentations on air pressure waves to sunset glows to poems and books and its Subsequent Phenomena. Side discuss...