All the news from London’s museums
Museums visitor numbers jumped – last yearThey’ve been closed for months, and are staggering towards limited openings, but museums and galleries have a lot of pent up demand to visit — if there are good exhibitions to see.
Hampton Court Palace reopens to the publicAlthough some of the gardens are already open, the main buildings at Hampton Court Palace remained closed, until now.
Charles Dickens Museum reopens with a new exhibitionThe museum inside Charles Dickens London home is reopening after its virus lockdown, with a new exhibition that will include eight newly colourised portraits.
London’s museums and galleries reopening datesSlowly life returns to London’s cultural landscape as museums and galleries wake from their virus imposed slumber and prepare to welcome visitors again.
An A-Z of London’s fashion alphabetThe Museum of London has created a new page on their website, bringing together 26 short videos all about London fashion.
Museum of London’s pandemic exhibition goes onlineA couple of years ago, a prophetic exhibition about pandemics was held at the Museum of London, and now they’ve put it online.
Photos of London’s docks during WW2On the eve of the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the Museum of London Docklands has released some photos from its archive that show the devastating impact of WW2 on the area.
The Museum of London’s new home – past, present and futureImages have been released showing the proposed new home for the Museum of London in Smithfield, near Farringdon station.
British Museum makes 1.9 million images available for freeThe British Museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under a Creative Commons license.
Collecting Coronavirus – the Museum of London wants your memoriesThe Museum of London is seeking to collect both objects and first-hand experiences to reflect Londoners’ lives during these dark days, in order to keep a record and to ensure future generations
Who wants a tube roundel coffee table?This is a limited edition coffee table from the London Transport Museum which will be going on sale in July, although you can pre-order it now.
London Transport Museum’s depot goes onlineThe London Transport Museum’s overflow depot in Acton is only open a few weekends each year – but with the lockdown in place – they’re going online instead.
Take a drivers eye trip along the Mail RailWhile the Postal Museum is closed to the public, they’ve put a video of a trip down the mail rail tunnels on their website.
Transport Museum offer for ianVisits readersThe London Transport Museum has released a new range of kitchenware based on its classic sporting posters, ianVisits is offering a 20% discount.
Natural History Museum wants to put a dinosaur in its front gardenThe Natural History Museum has shown off plans to revamp the space in front of the museum, including putting a dinosaur in the garden.
Remarkable 3D images of dinosaursIf you were to wander though the Natural History Museum shop (currently closed of course), then you might spy some really quite astonishing 3D pictures.
See Sir Pindar’s Home in the V&A MuseumHanging from a wall in the V&A is a grandly decorated frontage from an old house – just the frontage floating eerily in the void.
Unique piece of buried treasure goes on display at the V&AThe UK’s only known example of a late Medieval jewelled cluster brooch, discovered by a metal detectorist in 2017 has gone on display in the V&A Museum.
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