Bonzer: yeah, it might start to get tricky; I’m not restricting my self to London, but it would be extra cool if I did manage to get to 100 within, say, the Oystercard boundaries. Cool might not be the right word there, but you know what I mean.
I’m finally a tenth of the way there, so am just about on track despite a couple of dramas trying to derail me. I have an extra membership to the V&A available, so I’ve decided to offer it up as a competition: Free Victoria and Albert Museum Membership!
I hope to win the V&A memebership! My husband and I are going to London and driing out to Manchester for a few weeks vacation this spring. If you are going outside of London for museums, I’d like to see reviews of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and the St Albans Museums.
I went there today. It was even more gruesome than the Leprosy Museum in Bergen. Excellent stuff
If you want to do two Museums in one day, then I passed by the Steam Museum “the most important historic site of the water supply industry in Britain”, and the Musical Museum " a comprehensive array of sophisticated reproducing pianos, orchestrions, orchestrelles, residence organs and violin players" today. Apparently they’re only worth going to see on a weekend, as that’s when they power up their respective devices.
I’m going this weekend. Go to Kew Bridge train/bus stop. They are both right there
I do actually have those both planned to do together - GMTA and all that. But yeah, on weekdays (outside of school holidays, at least) they’re not fully open. That’s the case with a lot of small museums, unfortunately.
St. Albans is really only worth it for Veralanium, but if you went on a Sunday, you do another twofer in conjunction with the DeHavilland Museum (the aircraft, not Olivia ;))
