Marc's Public Blog - Museums

2017/08/13 London War Museum

π 2017-08-13 01:01 in Greatbritain2017, Museums

The london war museum was another place that was worth the time. It is in an inconvenient place away from town center, but has 5 floors of displays on multiple war periods, including recent wars, and even a section on the whole recent mess in Syria.

nice V2 rocket

human guided torpedo

They had a nice display about Mi6, the secret intelligence (as opposed to the MI5 james bond agents). Several of them infiltrated France during WWII and helped the French resistance to fight the germans:

spy equipment

fake papers

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2017/08/12 London's British Museum

π 2017-08-12 01:01 in Greatbritain2017, Museums

Originally, Jennifer had the British Museum slotted between two other things in our of our days in London. I stepped in an said "I don't really care what else there is, that museum is going to be a full day". Sadly, it opens late (10:00) and closes early (17:30 although it was posted as 17:00). While 10:00 is actually late for an opening, because I had gone to the ministry of sound night club the previous night/morning and had gone to bed quite late, I showed up there with little sleep, but was there on time :)

security line

Once inside, it was a race to see everything in just 7H. While it's not as big as the Louvre in Paris, it's still huge if you have a decent look at displays, and 2 days or more if you look at everything carefully. The aramaic and egyptian collections were nothing but impressive:

silly me thought that the rosetta stone was at the Louvre, but Paris only has a copy since the British re-stole the original from the French :)

cat mummies

egyptian game

The other collections were good too:

The greek temple bits were good too (some original, some copies):

And I literally finished within minutes of the museum closing, and really had to go at a good pace. It's definitely a great museum, glad I went.

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2017/08/11 London's V&A Museum

π 2017-08-11 01:01 in Greatbritain2017, Museums

The V&A Museum is another huge London museum of almost everything. It's a very nice set of buildings and rooms connected together on multiple floors with a nice courtyard in the middle:

I was a bit annoyed the first day we went since we went during their extended hours (once a week 17:00 to 22:00), but turns out more than half the rooms were actually closed. In the end, however, whatever was left was enough to fill the 4H+ I had there that first time, and I just went back another time for another 4H-ish. This is another way to say that it's a full day museum (and more if you're thorough).

The breath of collections there is also awesome, without abusing the word. The building itself has lots of art on the walls and ceilings: