The Science Museum has always been one of the most interactive museum experiences in London with buttons to push and cranks to turn. Whether you think Science is your thing or not, it has always been easy to while away hours there and get drawn into the fascinating application of science in transport, space travel, […]
In our special London’s Great Reopening feature What’s Hot London? is helping to re-energise our capital city by visiting galleries, museums, cinemas, music events and restaurants. Over the next few weeks, arts and culture writer Eddie Saint-Jean covers their steps out of Covid shutdown and openings, events, exhibitions and screenings. This week it’s our museum […]
The Parthenon Marbles, the Clooney’s and a poetical perspective from Keats and Byron THE PARTHENON MARBLES became front-page news back in 2014 when Greece appointed international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, wife of Hollywood actor George Clooney, to argue their return from Britain to their homeland of Greece. The argument was raised again in 2018 […]
With over 2.27 million objects, the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington is recognised as a world leader in collections of applied and decorative arts and design, but did you know it also has the world’s first museum restaurant? Its three opulently decorated Victorian ‘Refreshment Rooms’ were built in the 1850s and 60s, timed to […]
The Jamaican culture minister’s call for the return of Taino artefacts seized from their country and now owned by the British Museum has prompted Nigerians to renew their own demands for the return of looted Benin Bronze relics. With the British Museum now in negotiations to temporarily loan them back to Nigeria, we discuss the […]
The Science Museum’s Summer of Space festival runs concurrently with the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. As well as their screening of the Apollo 11: First Steps documentary (a special edit just for museums), there’s other entertaining and educational exhibits and displays covering the early period of the space race, moon landings and space exploration […]
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery will be opening late for Museums at Night May 16-19. Galleries and museums all over the UK will be extending their opening hours for talks, workshops and special events. Rachel Howard conducts a tour of her Repetition is Truth exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery and enlightens about how her large-scale […]
This week is a pretty important one in the history of space travel. It was on this day, April 9th, back in 1959 that America showed off its first astronauts at a press conference and discussed their Project Mercury mission to launch the world’s first manned space program involving these seven military pilots. The launch […]
Eddie Saint-Jean, editor of What’s Hot London? magazine attends a screening of his short film at the Cinema Museum, Kennington. His film When The Earth Fell Down is about an environmental disaster. The film event was organised by Exploding Cinema who screened 20 experimental films submitted by film-makers from all over the world.
The Museum of London already has a permanent display dedicated to the Suffragette movement. The centenary commemoration of the 1918 Representation of the People Act has seen this extended with two more display areas. On this same L2 level floor, you’ll also find the Shades of Suffragette Militancy and Votes for Women displays documenting the […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
