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Today, me and the girlfriend went the V&A museum near South Kensington. To be honest I think it is a bit of a hodge-bodge of different collections that don’t really come together. Having said that some of the exhibitions were excellent.

I was amazed by the huge chandeler that welcomes you into the main enterance. It is made from different coloured blown glass and looks like it weighes a tonne!

There were quite a few Rodin sculptures (from The Kiss fame) but much better was the photography exhibition. There was a section on Moffat and his camera-less photography. Best of all was a David Maisel huge photo of a rusty tin can which looks just like the earth from space. The tag tells that it is from a series called Library of Dust which is a collection of tin cans that contain the ashes of people from a mental institution (I think). Definitley worth a look!

I think that I will return to the V&A as there is so much more to see, but it probably wont be top of my list.

V&A website - http://www.vam.ac.uk/

Another Saturday, another trip to a London museum! :-D

The Natural History Museum is great. It is right next-door to the Science Museum in South Kensington and is a huge brick building decorated with gargoyles. As you walk in the entrance you are greeted by an amazing skeleton (or cast of a skeleton).

Highlights:

The dinosaur section is very much worth the queue. It contains a three quarters scale moving T-Rex towards the end which (using a little imagination) is actually quite scary.

The section of a Giant Sequioa tree is pretty impressive as are the photos next to it.

The mammal area is great and complete with full size model of a blue whale. It’s huge!

The best thing is that despite spending a good few hours there I think I only saw about a quarter of the exhibitions. Definitely worth another visit!

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I’ve just come back from the (National?) Science Museum and if I’m honest it was a bit of a mixed bag.

Great bits
There were some great bits like the huge weird wheel thing in the main entrance and the space exhibition was great.

Launchpad was also very good - a kids interactive bit in the basement. It had two unconnected satellite dishes as either end of the room which you could speak to people through despite the distance. There was also an amazing black concave semi-sphere that when you put your hand in it produced a 3D reflection of it coming back at you. You could shake it’s hand!

Not-so-great bits
It was very busy - my fault really for going on a Saturday but I had to queue for lots of exhibits and then felt pressured by bratty kids while on them.

I found the body section was a bit disappointing despite being pretty interested in Biology.

Some bits were very boring like the marine section with lots of models of boats.

So I’d recommend checking it out, but perhaps go without high expectations. And not on a Saturday .

Science Museum website - www.sciencemuseum.org.uk