Standing beneath Trajan's column following the frieze as it winds it way upwards, round and round, telling the story of the a eponymous emperor's bloody wars in Dacia, I marvel at how close up to it I can get. The column's too tall, though, so the top half is sitting quietly next to the bottom … Continue reading The Cast Court, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Wordless Wednesday #14: Second World War bomb damage, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wordless Wednesday #7: Roman coin hoard, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon
Wordless Wednesday #5: Bronze Age pots from the Palace of Knossos, Crete, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians at the British Museum, London
I'm lucky enough to be a regular visitor to the British Museum, and on a recent trip was excited to be able to see the latest exhibition, 'I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assryia', which explores the life and world of Assyria's last great king who reigned in the seventh century BC, … Continue reading Ashurbanipal and the Assyrians at the British Museum, London
Here be monsters: The Museum of Natural History, Oxford
We had a family day out to Oxford last week, to see the Ashmolean Museum's Spellbound exhibition – an evocative, surprising and dark exploration of folk magic and ritual from medieval to modern times – and to go to the Museum of Natural History where a new display has been installed. Photography wasn't allowed at … Continue reading Here be monsters: The Museum of Natural History, Oxford
