UK Ongoing & Permanent
2015: 6 May,
Wednesdays |
V&A, BFI, Btitish Library, NHM Library or British Museum Print Room
Wednesdays 1:30 onward Research on: - Elizabethan Blackwork Embroidery - Chasing and repoussé designs - History of Keepsakes - Wearables in Film & Culture |
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Dennis Severs' House
8 Folgate Street, London, Greater London E1 6BX Mon,Wed 12-2pm, 6-9pm Tue, Thu-Sat Closed, Sun 12-4pm ""still-life drama" created by the previous owner as an "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. It is a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields, London, England. From 1979 to 1999 it was lived in by Dennis Severs, who gradually recreated the rooms as a time capsule in the style of former centuries" |
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Blooming Marvellous
Natural History Museum at Tring The Walter Rothschild building Akeman St, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 6AP 24 May - 18 August 2013 "Discover the fascinating range of animals collected by Lionel Walter Rothschild in our beautiful Victorian Museum. and "Get a glimpse of the Museum's extensive collection of botanical art including watercolours, pen sketches and drawings, dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries." |
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William Morris Gallery
Lloyd Park Forest Road, Walthamstow E17 4PP 6 July to 22 September 2013 "The refurbished Arts and Crafts room will enable us to show regularly changing displays of material from our extensive Arts and Crafts collection. Morris’ continuing legacy will also be explored through a programme of major exhibitions in a new, purpose built temporary exhibition space." |
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Osterley Park and House
Jersey Road, Isleworth, TW7 4RB 12pm - 4:30pm Wednesday to Sunday "Magnificent neo-classical house and interiors, landscape park and gardens. Osterley was created in the late 18th century by architect and designer Robert Adam. Once described as 'the palace of palaces" |
2015: Permanent
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NHM or Grant Museum of Zoology - Sketching day
Rockefeller Building UCL 21 University Street WC1E 6DE Monday - Saturday 1-5pm. (2012: October 15) "The only remaining university zoological museum in London. It houses around 67,000 specimens, covering the whole Animal Kingdom. Founded in 1828 as a teaching collection, the Museum is packed full of skeletons, mounted animals and specimens preserved in fluid." |
2015: Permanent
(Possibly early July) |
The Micrarium – a place for tiny things (Sketching)
Grant Museum of Zoology M-Sat "The Micrarium is a place for visitors to come and explore tiny specimens. It’s often said that 95% of known animal species are smaller than your thumb, but despite this most natural history museums fill their displays with big animals.. |
2015: TBC look at Membership
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The South London Botanical Institute
323 Norwood Rd London SE24 9AQ 2014 January 1, membership is due "· Varied evening lectures and field trips (excludes travel costs and entrance fees) · Use of facilities - botanic garden, library, herbaria, and microscopes. · Advance notice of educational courses and events. · Twice yearly publication, the SLBI Gazette, to which members may submit articles reflecting their own varied botanical interests.." |
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British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum
West Dulwich, London Telephone 020 8670 3667 By Appointment only "The Museum has an ever-expanding range of radios, televisions, speakers and radiograms from the dawn of radio up to the last valve model ever made. Items of interest to academics, historians, manufacturers and collectors are on exhibition. The Museum consists of two buildings making thirteen rooms with 1300 wireless receivers on show, along with many display cabinets of components and wireless associated artefacts, also a period shop. " |
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The Geffrye Museum
136 Kingsland Road Shoreditch, E2 8EA (between Pearson and Cremer Streets) Tuesday - Sunday 12am - 5pm "depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day." |
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The de Morgan Foundation
38 West Hill Wandsworth London SW18 1RZ Tuesday - Friday: 1 pm - 5 pm, Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm Late View: until 9 pm first Thursday every month "an unparalleled collection of work by the late 19th and early 20th ceramicist William De Morgan and his artist wife Evelyn. Both highly esteemed in their fields, they were key participants at the beginning of the still influential Arts and Crafts Movement. |
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Pollocks Toy Museum
1 Scala StreetLondon W1T 2HL 10am-5pm, Mo to Sat "Nearly every kind of toy imaginable turns up here from all over the world and from all different time perods. It’s a fascinating exhibition of toy theatres, teddy bears, wax and china dolls, board games, optical toys, folk toys, nursery furniture, mechanical toys and doll’s houses." |
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Ham House
Ham Street, Ham, Richmond-upon-Thames, TW10 7RS 12pm - 5pm (Closed Friday) "Today Ham House and Garden stand as one of Europe’s greatest 17th-century houses." |
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Brunel Museum
Railway Avenue, Rotherhithe, SE16 4LF 10.45 a.m. on Sundays "Guided tours from Bermondsey Tube (just turn up – advance booking not required). £8 per person / £6 concessions." |
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Handel House Museum
25 Brook Street, London Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm (until 8pm on Th), S noon - 6pm, Mond closed "home to the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel. He lived here from 1723 until his death in 1759, and composed some of the greatest music in history, including Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks." |
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Michael Faraday
Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BS 9.00am till 6.00pm Monday to Friday. "he spent most of his working life at the Royal Institution, where he made many important scientific discoveries. Outside the laboratory he took on responsibilities in running the organisation and giving lectures. As one of the leading members of the scientific community, he was also frequently invited to provide scientific advice to the state." |
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Sands Film Club:
Sands Films Studio, 82 Saint Marychurch Street London SE16 4HZ Tuesdays at 9pm "In homage to the programming of Art House Cinemas of a bygone era. Sands Films runs a small and informal Cinema Club with screenings in our viewing theatre. The club aims for a better knowledge of the History of World Cinema. Many of the titles shown are seldom seen. The shows are usually at 21.00 every Tuesday evening. " |
2012: Permanent (Sundays)
(Possibly mid May) |
Eltham Palace & Gardens
Court Yard, Eltham, Greenwich, London - SE9 5QE11 Sundays 10:00 - 17:00 (April 1 - 4th Nov) "Immerse yourself in 1930s Art Deco decadence at Eltham Palace, one of the most enchanting visitor attractions in London. Built by the wealthy Courtauld family next to the remains of Eltham Palace, childhood home of Henry VIII, it’s among the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in England." |
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(Possibly mid May) |
Fan Museum
12 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, SE10 8ER 29.02.2012 - 03.06.2012 Tue-Sat: 11am-5pm. Sun: 12-5pm "From utilitarian tableware and contemporary clothing, through to avant-garde sculpture and information technology, plastics have, during the last 100 years, ruthlessly usurped natural materials, coming to define consumer culture in the modern era." |
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