Year: 2019

London urban sketchers: Spitalfields

Apr 06, 2019

Last month’s Usk-L meeting took place in Spitalfields market, in Shoreditch. Maybe due to the nice weather or because it was a lot easier to get there than to Hendon, the attendance was way higher this time. Para la última quedada de London Urban Sketchers nos fuimos a dibujar al mercado de Spitalfields, en Shoreditch. Read more

Wallace Collection

Mar 28, 2019 Wallace Collection featured

The Wallace collection is not only the home of one of the largest decorative arts and European paintings collections, but it also has that kind of story one loves to hear when you go to a house like that: eccentric rich men obsessed with French aesthetics, an illegitimate child who inherited everything, travels to exotic Read more

Grant Museum of Zoology

Mar 14, 2019 Zoology featured

Very close to the British Museum but unlike it, quite unknown, is the Grant Museum of Zoology of London. It is not bigger than a room and it contains hundreds of jarred creatures and skeletons of many animals — some of them extinct — from a dugong to all sorts of microscopical specimens in the Micrarium. If Read more