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….

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