Showing posts with label british museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label british museum. Show all posts

Friday, 10 June 2011

Favourite Places: The Enlightenment Room

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On those days when I'm at a bit of a loss and in need of some ideas I love nothing better than walking around the Enlightenment Room at the British Museum. It's such a great place to think.

It's the first big room on the right as you walk in through the main entrance and it's beautiful; the room displays a vast array of objects documenting the way collectors grouped things, seemingly unrelated objects are placed together based on characteristics like size, shape or colour. When I walk around and look at the curiosity cabinets, the collections of things - coins, shells, rocks - and the floor to ceiling book cases, I want to be a part of it, to go out and explore and most of all to be awed by the world.

Imagine seeing the world for the first time.

Saturday, 26 February 2011

The One That Got Away

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I was walking through The British Museum on the 15th February and on looking up to the ceiling noticed a little heart shaped, helium balloon resting up there. A little rebel I think, breaking away from the grip of a Valentine to live near the stars.