44 h. ago Its future uncertain, Museum London's iconic rhino now indoors

Its future uncertain, Museum London's iconic rhino now indoors  London Free Press

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49 h. ago London museum where you can touch ‘5,000 years of creativity’

London museum where you can touch ‘5,000 years of creativity’  South China Morning Post

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3 d. ago The new London museum where you won’t be shushed or told off for touching items

Found in London's Olympic Park, the Storehouse is part of a new cultural quarter in the city

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4 d. ago London’s V&A Storehouse museum lets visitors get their hands on 5,000 years of creativity

Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage

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8 d. ago Camilla reveals wish to become joint patron of ‘favourite’ Garden Museum

Camilla visited an exhibition held by the Garden Museum in south London on Wednesday to celebrate British Flowers Week.

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9 d. ago Plans underway to create spy museum in London’s Blitz tunnels

Plans underway to create spy museum in London’s Blitz tunnels  Museums Association

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1 week ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: White working class children have been betrayed

Saturday night at eight o'clock found me not at the movies but at the Cinema Museum, a hidden gem near the Oval cricket ground in South London.

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1 week ago London Tunnels tourist attraction to offer military intelligence museum

London Tunnels tourist attraction to offer military intelligence museum  Blooloop

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1 week ago Highlights From Shanghai Mint Museum to Be Showcased in London

Highlights From Shanghai Mint Museum to Be Showcased in London  Numismatic News

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1 week ago If you spray your plants with this one natural item ants won't touch them

The pests are more likely to swarm your garden during summer, but not if you take this simple precaution

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1 week ago London Design Museum Turns its Massive Warehouse Collection into Another Museum—with 250K Items

London Design Museum Turns its Massive Warehouse Collection into Another Museum—with 250K Items  Good News Network

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1 week ago Secret network of spy tunnels to open as London’s newest tourist attraction

The tunnels were kept a secret until 2007, but now the public will be able to get even closer with a new spy museum in the network

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2 w. ago London tunnels that inspired James Bond creator will become spy museum

London tunnels that inspired James Bond creator will become spy museum  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Diller Scofidio + Renfro Just Unveiled London's Most Exciting New Museum

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Just Unveiled London's Most Exciting New Museum  hypebeast.com

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2 w. ago V&A east storehouse by DS+R opens in london, bringing museum storage into public view

V&A east storehouse by DS+R opens in london, bringing museum storage into public view  Designboom

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2 w. ago ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts• ‘Pop a masterpiece in your basket’: our art critic reviews the Storehouse‘We used to have something called social housing,” you will be able to tell your grandchildren, should you ever take them to V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new outpost in east London. High up in the atrium, at the centre of this huge open-access repository of 250,000 objects, hangs a chunk of Robin Hood Gardens, a brutalist council estate in nearby Poplar that was recently bulldozed to make way for less affordable housing. Deftly suspended from the gantry, the poignant fragment now seems as much a relic of a bygone age as the 15th-century Islamic dome from a Spanish palace that is displayed across the hall. The estate’s precast concrete panels have been reassembled with ju...

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2 w. ago London Transport Museum seeks your help to restore 1930s tube train seats

London Transport Museum seeks your help to restore 1930s tube train seats  ianVisits

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3 w. ago Every object has a story to tell – and V&A London's new storage facility is designed to serve as a museum

Every object has a story to tell – and V&A London's new storage facility is designed to serve as a museum  Monocle

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3 w. ago Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait GalleryOil interests have funded cultural institutions such as museums, youth organizations and athletic groups in recent years, new research shows, in what appears to be a public relations effort to boost their image amid growing public awareness of the climate crisis.Top US fossil fuel lobby group the American Petroleum Institute (API) sponsored a 2017 workshop for the Pennsylvania Girl Scouts, featuring “activities that mimicked work in the energy industry”. Energy giant BP in 2016 sponsored Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art and continues to fund the British Museum in London. And in 2019, Shell sponsored the golf event the Houston Open for the 26th time. Continue reading...

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