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Pick of the posters at the Imperial War Museum

Posted by Katherine on January 1, 2016January 1, 2016 in 20th Century, Digital, Exhibitions

Posters provide striking and familiar visuals that illustrate, decorate and inform the public about the Second World War. The Imperial War Museum displays these posters in some of its exhibits as you might expect, but they also appear as reproductions…

V&A The Museum of Childhood

Posted by Katherine on January 26, 2014September 26, 2014 in 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Exhibitions

I went to the V&A’s Museum of Childhood for the first time on Friday. I had always thought it would be interesting to see all the childhood-related objects collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum in one place, but I…

The Mary Rose – a miracle of conservation

Posted by Katherine on January 2, 2014 in 16th Century, 20th Century, Exhibitions

The new Mary Rose Museum opened this year, and while I haven’t had the chance to visit yet, it’s a good moment to look back at its fantastic history. BBC News broadcast a short documentary about the raising of the…

The Cabinet War Rooms and the Churchill Museum

Posted by Katherine on October 30, 2013 in 20th Century, Exhibitions

I visited the Churchill War Rooms many years ago and since my memories of it were hazy, I thought I’d check it out and see how it had changed. I remembered looking in on the old rooms and had a…

The Future is Here and Extraordinary Stories at the Design Museum

Posted by Katherine on October 14, 2013 in 20th Century, Exhibitions

I went to the Design Museum on the South Bank to visit The Future is Here exhibition, which focuses on new design and manufacturing techniques. It  has a quick introduction to the breakthroughs of the industrial revolution before flagging the…

Nineteenth-century ship figureheads

Posted by Katherine on May 12, 2013 in 18th Century, 19th Century, Exhibitions

I visited the National Maritime Museum yesterday, which has some fantastic examples of ship figureheads and ship badges from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the outset of the age of seafaring, images were used to mark out the identity…

The Black Country Living Museum

Posted by Katherine on July 27, 2012 in 19th Century, 20th Century, Exhibitions

I visited the Black Country Living Museum last month, which is just outside Dudley near Birmingham. It’s an interesting mix of museum and reconstructed town with actors, reconstructed shops, an old mine and a canal with tunnels. It’s huge and…

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