3arabawy (Free subscription) | yesterday
I visited the strikers in Trafalgar Square yesterday… To find out more about their plight and demands, check out their union website…
badgerbag: messy, surly, full of bo (Free subscription) | yesterday
I scored two books at the British Museum as I rushed on through. "Tales From Ancient Egypt" by J. Tyldesley. Oh. My. God. Why did I buy this! It's just what I don't like! On first glance it seemed like...
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 1.0.1519 The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes is a lavish mystery adventure game, featuring 16 unique cases of forgery, espionage, theft, murder and more. Investigate hundreds of potentially relevant clues and lively characters in each mysterious story. Explore 40 historically accurate locations around London, including seedy docks, the British Museum, the Royal Theatre,...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
From Rush Today Uncle Matt and I went to the British Museum and then ate lunch with the cusins then we wemt to Herrods. Wewalked the entire time we were there We also went to the Forbidden Planet Mega store. If you are wondering what that is it is a scifi store. We had thai food for dinner. It was great I had noodle soup. Well thats it for me bye.From Vance great day only one more meeting
Elginism (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
A reminder, that Lazaros Filippidis is organising a distribution of leaflets outside the British Museum this Saturday (5th July). See the earlier post for more details & come along to help if you can spare the time.
The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Cat and Kitten mummies. This week's entry for Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats
IF! (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Opening tomorrow (July 4th) on Montague Place behind the British Museum in London is a new temporary cultural space designed by Carmody Groarke Architects. Called the Sky Walk, the installation is the centerpiece of the… Continue reading
Elginism (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Lee Rosenbaum offers some thoughts on whether the idea that Neil MacGregor was offered the job of director of the Met was all down to distortion of the issue by headline writers. Read her piece here. At the same time Norman Lebrecht uses this news as another chance to extol the virtues of MacGregor & the British [...]
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Opening tomorrow (July 4th) on Montague Place behind the British Museum in London is a new temporary cultural space designed by Carmody Groarke Architects. Called the Sky Walk, the installation is the centerpiece of the… ... continue reading
badgerbag: messy, surly, full of bo (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
I woke up in such pain. My arms could barely move and walking wasn't good either. Zond-7 massaged my neck and shoulder and right arm, I had coffee, stretched a lot, waited for anti-inflammatories to kick in, and now I...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Jonathan Jones: But its director should remember: the language of populism is crude, and the pleasures of museums subtle
Elginism (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
When Philippe de Montebello announced his retirement from New York’s Metropolitan Museum, British Museum director Neil MacGregor was one of the people tipped to replace him. The British Museum has just announced though that although he was offered the post, he has turned it down with the intention of staying with the British Museum until [...]
blue cat (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
britishmuseum Originally uploaded by jamesandthebluecat From this piece. The British Museum has had its most successful year since it started counting visitors - and probably since its foundation in 1753. In the financial year 2007-08, a record 6 million people came through the doors, including 35,000 who visited on a single day to celebrate the Chinese new year. The museum's director, Neil MacGregor,...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
When I interviewed him in London last fall , Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, told me off the record that he didn't want to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York because he much preferred to stay on where he was. Over the past few months I've been told the same thing, always off the record, by a few other major museum directors and never...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
This blog is coming to you from the private library in the British Museum. The group has seperated to explore the galleries at each person's own pace and Eleni found herself in front of a computer with the Museum's database. After some nifty linking there was no place to type a url she was able to locate the travelblog website and has thus found a way to use FREE INTERNET Needless to say she
