Going through old picture folders and sketchbooks have become a habit, especially during those times of the pandemic where everything was closed outside. I went to the Horniman Museum around two years ago and I spent a great Sunday wandering around looking for stuff to draw. It’s not nearly as famous as other museums in Read more
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
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