Museum Waiting To Be Seen

Question of the week: Can you name a museum you have yet to visit but would like to visit very soon?

"I would like to visit the All Visual Art Gallery in the King’s cross area (2 Omega Place). It specialises in highly innovative contemporary art, now featuring an installation on intricate interior living and library spaces by the French artist Charles Matton, which is commended in this week’s Time Out as the ‘Exhibition of the Week’. The King’s Cross area, once very run down, is going through a stunning transformation with new galleries, performance spaces, and cool restaurants emerging at such a rapid pace that some have dubbed it (you will get the joke) ‘North Bank’. At the heart of it all is the British Library, which offers in addition to its world renowned book and manuscript collections a striking (free) public gallery displaying such rare items as an original Magna Carta, a Shakespeare First Folio, illuminated Chaucer manuscripts, antique maps, of course manuscripts by JOHN KEATS (!), and many other riches."- Prof Kucich

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Museum Waiting To Be Seen

Question of the week: Can you name a museum you have yet to visit but would like to visit very soon?

"I’ve never been to the Canal Museum. Although it is not a very popular museum, I am driven to believe that it must be fascinating and have wanted to visit for a while. A very short walk from King’s Cross station, the museum focuses on a London resource that we can all appreciate, both in beauty and function. It houses an interesting history on how canals came to be built and how they work, the lives of the waterway workers, and you can even look inside a massive ice well where ice imported from Norway used to be stored.

The Canal Museum is certainly not a top priority on any tourist’s list, but for those who have the chance to live in London, even for a short four months, it is worth a visit; if not for intellectual gain, at least for the sake of visiting an obscure museum that is probably full of Londoners!"- Christina

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Museum Waiting To Be Seen

Question of the week: Can you name a museum you have yet to visit but would like to visit very soon?

"As ashamed as I am to admit it, I have actually never been to the Victoria & Albert museum, which has gone from strength to strength over the past decade. They always seem to have interesting stuff on now."-Jamie

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Museum Waiting To Be Seen

Question of the week: Can you name a museum you have yet to visit but would like to visit very soon?

"The Museum of London.

Given that it's completely free and just a short walk north of St Paul's Cathedral, I'm totally ashamed of myself for not having made it there. The museum follows the history of London from prehistoric times right through to the present day. At weekends they even have free tours. As a fan of nice museum shops, I'm also disappointed because I hear they have a good gift shop with excellent prints and stationery with a London theme.

You could easily walk there from Conway Hall, or take out a Boris Bike - there's a docking station right by the museum."- Clare

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Museum Waiting To Be Seen

Question of the week: Can you name a museum you have yet to visit but would like to visit very soon?

"I have to confess – I’ve never been to the Horniman Museum.

It’s an anthropological museum, which has grown out of the personal collection of Victorian tea trader Frederick John Horniman, who began collecting specimens and artefacts from around the world in the 1860's, full of musical instruments and stuffed beasties and all sorts of wonderful masks and artefacts, and surrounded by some beautiful gardens.

I really have no excuse since the London Overground opened up, creating a direct link from east London (where I live) down to south London – there are also direct trains from London Bridge, which is convenient for Conway Hall.

I’m determined to get down there some time before the end of the year, while it’s still their 110th anniversary!"- Miss Alice

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