Exhibition review
Visualising space probes 30 years on
When I went to see the Science Museum’s excellent Cosmonauts exhibition this week I expected to find objects…
Inside the Cutty Sark
I’m on the HMS Beagle Project blog this week talking about the freshly-opened Cutty Sark in Greenwich. She’s…
“Wealth and beggary, vice and virtue”: Dickens and London at the Museum of London
Dickens and London was always going to be a challenge for the Museum of London. Should they focus…
Pirates! On the quest for the ‘true story’ of Captain Kidd
The Museum of London Docklands’ Pirates: The Captain Kidd Story exhibition has all the essential ingredients of a…
Once Upon a Wartime at the Imperial War Museum
The Imperial War Museum London’s latest temporary exhibition claims to delve “into the pages of well-loved books, bringing…
Infinitely scandalous: the Natural History Museum’s Sexual Nature
If you want something to create a buzz, you can’t do much better than getting your product banned….