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A new museum planned about London’s insurance markets
A new museum planned about London’s insurance markets

A new museum planned about London’s insurance markets

A new museum is being planned that shows off the history of insurance in London - no, wait, come back, it's not that bad.

Sep
12
2022
Walking competition to win moquette picnic sets
Walking competition to win moquette picnic sets

Walking competition to win moquette picnic sets

A walking challenge to visit a set of points on a map could win you a Routemaster moquette picnic set from the London Transport Museum.

Sep
22
2020
Museum Meals: Eltham Palace
Museum Meals: Eltham Palace

Museum Meals: Eltham Palace

When visiting a posh home/old castle combo, it seems fitting to dine locally, in their back garden greenhouse.

Feb
12
2020
Museum Meals: London Transport Museum
Museum Meals: London Transport Museum

Museum Meals: London Transport Museum

Covent Garden isn't short of places to eat, but a new one has arrived in the revamped Transport Museum cafe/bar, Canteen.

Jan
28
2020
Museum Meals – Charles Dickens Museum
Museum Meals – Charles Dickens Museum

Museum Meals – Charles Dickens Museum

At the back of a row of posh terraced houses in Bloomsbury is a small comfortable cafe - inside the Charles Dickens Museum.

Jan
15
2020
Museum Meals: The Charterhouse
Museum Meals: The Charterhouse

Museum Meals: The Charterhouse

Sitting outside, but next to the museum, the newish museum inside the ancient Charterhouse on the edge of the city has turned a Georgian home into its new cafe.

Mar
20
2018
Museum Meals – Barbican Foyer Cafe
Museum Meals – Barbican Foyer Cafe

Museum Meals – Barbican Foyer Cafe

The Barbican has almost as many food establishments as it has concert halls and galleries, so which to choose from.

Sep
19
2017
Museum Meals – The Electric Railway Museum
Museum Meals – The Electric Railway Museum

Museum Meals – The Electric Railway Museum

On the outskirts of Coventry is a railway museum that contains a small cafe, inside an old railway carriage.

Sep
05
2017
Museum Meals – Imperial War Museum
Museum Meals – Imperial War Museum

Museum Meals – Imperial War Museum

On the weekend that the new Museum of the Mind opened at Bethlem Hospital in south London, I wandered over to its former home in Lambeth for a bite of lunch.

Feb
23
2015
Museum Meals – V&A Museum of Childhood
Museum Meals – V&A Museum of Childhood

Museum Meals – V&A Museum of Childhood

What was once the V&A's regional outpost in the east of London has a newish display on at the moment, and as I was sort-of local, popped over for a look and a nibble.

Jan
25
2015
Museum Meals – National Maritime Museum
Museum Meals – National Maritime Museum

Museum Meals – National Maritime Museum

I was in Greenwich for an event taking place later that afternoon, so why not pop into the newish extension to the Maritime Museum for a bit of lunch while I waited.

Jan
18
2015

Museum Meals – Wellcome Collection

A first museum meal of the new year and as with all new-year resolutions, time for something annoyingly healthy to offset the excesses of the past month.

Jan
11
2015
Museum Meals – The Southbank Centre
Museum Meals – The Southbank Centre

Museum Meals – The Southbank Centre

At the moment, the Southbank Center has a semi-permanent display about the history of the 1951 Festival of Britain, which sort of makes at least one small corner of the estate, a museum for my purposes.

Nov
24
2014
Museum Meals – Museum of London Docklands
Museum Meals – Museum of London Docklands

Museum Meals – Museum of London Docklands

A fashion writer once told a distraught writer who couldn't think of anything nice to say when he had been told to be praiseworthy, was that there is always a shoe. In essence, find one small thing that was good, and enlarge on it.

Nov
10
2014

Museum Meals – Science Museum

A new gallery opened recently in the Science Museum, and a week after Her Majesty sent her first tweet, I wandered in to have a look as well.

Nov
03
2014
Museum Meals – Westminster Cathedral
Museum Meals – Westminster Cathedral

Museum Meals – Westminster Cathedral

Is a church, or a cathedral also a museum? You could look at many of them as historic buildings, and I often delight in their history and decoration, but they are also (usually) living places of worship.

Oct
27
2014
Museum Meals – The British Museum
Museum Meals – The British Museum

Museum Meals – The British Museum

Popping into the British Museum to have a look at a new exhibition and feeling peckish, I considered which of two options could be tried out. The main restaurant, or the canteen style offerings that fill the back end of the Great Court.

Oct
20
2014
Museum Meals – The Jewel Tower
Museum Meals – The Jewel Tower

Museum Meals – The Jewel Tower

In a small grassy depression directly opposite the Houses of Parliament can be found a small stone tower, which happens to be a 14th century building that is open to the public as a small museum.

Oct
13
2014
Museum Meals – The Geffrye
Museum Meals – The Geffrye

Museum Meals – The Geffrye

It's not often that you have to walk past a dozen other people's dining rooms in order to have your own lunch, unless you work in a hotel, but that is how the Geffrye museum is laid out.

Oct
06
2014
Museum Meals – Horniman
Museum Meals – Horniman

Museum Meals – Horniman

One of South London's major cultural hubs is the legacy of the English obsession with a cup of tea although today it is probably more famous for a very badly stuffed walrus.

Sep
29
2014
Museum Meals – The British Library
Museum Meals – The British Library

Museum Meals – The British Library

Should a library be included in the museum meals I wondered as I pondered where to stop for a short snack while in the area.

Sep
22
2014
Museum Meals – Buckingham Palace
Museum Meals – Buckingham Palace

Museum Meals – Buckingham Palace

I wasn't going to list venues you have to pay to go in to in order to eat, but I've been in the Palace for other reasons on several occasions, and usually stop off at the garden cafe before I leave.

Sep
15
2014

Museum Meals – Wallace Collection

I was in the area watching a steam train trundle through the London Underground and taking a wander down to Oxford Street for some shopping remembered the Wallace Collection has a rather grand looking restaurant.

Sep
08
2014
Museum Meals – Foulness Heritage Centre
Museum Meals – Foulness Heritage Centre

Museum Meals – Foulness Heritage Centre

I was outside London recently with a good friend to visit one of the remotest museums in the country, and which unexpectedly and fortuitously had refreshments available.

Sep
01
2014