museums

Puzzles and pizza: a mystery at the museum and dinner at Zia Lucia

Puzzles and pizza: a mystery at the museum and dinner at Zia Lucia

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You may have read my post on City Dash, a large-scale urban wide game that tickled my housemates and I so much we did it four times in as many months. It involves running around bits of the city solving cryptic clues and evading guards in high-vis, sort of like a slightly more grown-up version of 40-40 Homes. […]

Brick tricks at the Old Truman Brewery

Brick tricks at the Old Truman Brewery

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Nathan Sawaya, the artist behind the Old Truman Brewery’s wildly popular The Art of the Brick exhibition, has made some pretty cool stuff out of Lego over the years. He is also – it must be said – a bit of a dick, but don’t let that stop you from going to see his work before it’s […]

The Wellcome Collection is London’s weirdest and most wonderful museum (and it’s free)

The Wellcome Collection is London’s weirdest and most wonderful museum (and it’s free)

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Aah, the Wellcome Collection, my favourite museum in London. I like it so much, in fact, that I named my other blog after their tagline: “the free destination for the incurably curious”. It’s within pissing distance of Euston station, yet hardly anybody seems to know it’s there. It’s hiding like plain sight, like a…er, Panamanian […]

Eight things I learned from ‘Hello, My Name Is Paul Smith’ at the Design Museum

Eight things I learned from ‘Hello, My Name Is Paul Smith’ at the Design Museum

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Before I went to the Design Museum for Paul Smith’s exhibition, ‘Hello, My Name is Paul Smith’, I knew next to nothing about the man except he likes stripes, flamboyant suits, and that I can’t afford anything he makes. (This was confirmed in the gift shop: £155 for a scarf. Bugger that for a game […]

The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

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The Old Operating Theatre Museum is a restored garret hidden away just up Borough High Street. You can only get at it by climbing three flights of mental-steep spiral stairs, which means that – ironically – the oldest operating theatre in Europe can only be reached by the able-bodied, but once up there there’s a […]