Local Museums – Redbridge Museum
The town of Illford has a local museum that’s not called Ilford Museum, but named after the much larger borough that it’s within – welcome to Redbridge Museum.
Exhibition Review
325 object to mark 325 years of the Bank of England
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is of the sort of age that you should never mention about a lady, but she’s dug out an object for every year of her life.
Driverless: Who is in control?
Self driving cars may seem like a modern invention, but they’re much older than you might realise.
The year St Paul’s Cathedral nearly lost its dome
It’s Christmas Eve 1924 and while people are preparing for the festivities, the City of London is busy preparing an urgent notice – they plan to close St Paul’s Cathedral.
The Museum of the Moon at the Natural History Museum
Deep within the Natural History Museum is a huge cavernous space filled with a giant floating replica of the moon.
See spies and spooks at the Science Museum
A new exhibition that is less James Bond and more Q looks at the history of how British spies kept their secrets safe from enemies.
Sir Thomas Gresham: Tudor, Trader, Shipper, Spy
A man who can serve four Tudor monarchs without losing his head, while becoming fantastically rich at the same time is bound to be an enigmatic figure.
You wont see most of this new science exhibition
An exhibition about the 95% of the universe that can’t be seen is a challenging topic for any gallery to take on.
Postcards as art and politics at the British Museum
At a time when art seems to be getting ever larger and less able to fit into private homes, there’s an exhibition of the opposite end of the spectrum, of postcards as art.
Transport Museum looks at how Thameslink untangled the tracks
A new exhibition is looking at the recent substantial works to upgrade the Thameslink lines so that a mainline railway can, in places offer tube-train like services.
Secret Rivers at the Docklands Museum
Lost plastic toys, medieval toilets, swords, pots, modern relics, giant crosses, bones, skulls, and books galore — all highlight how the rivers of London have captured our imagination and preserved our history.
Money in board games — a British Museum exhibition
Monopoly is the famous money obsessed board game, but an exhibition now open looks at the much wider appearance of money in games, boards and otherwise.
Exhibition looks at the internationalisation of Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens Museum has put on one of its occasional exhibitions, this time looking at the man’s international fame and impact.
Queen Victoria as seen on screen at the BFI
One of a number of attempts to jump on the QV200 anniversary, the BFI has taken a look back at the black and white queen as seen on the silver screen.
The V&A explores the future of food production
Of all the great achievements of the 20th century, food has to be one of the greatest — not just the abundance of it, but how prices today are a fraction of what they used to cost. But at what cost to the environment?
A mixed display of Artificial Intelligence at the Barbican
At a time when humans are still struggling to define intelligence in machines, an exhibition about the same could be heading into controversial territory.
An exhibition about breathing
Taking a breath, something we do without thinking, until we think about it then we wonder how we can stop thinking about breathing and maybe panic about what would happen if we stopped breathing.
See Sir Joseph Bazalgette made from Lego
Just around the corner from the Houses of Parliament, an exhibition about water opens with a model of the sewer king, Sir Joseph Bazalgette – made from Lego.
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