Where: New York City I think I could have spent about 5 years looking round this museum. I went just before Christmas and as soon as I saw the enormous festive greenery dinosaur sculptures standing outside I knew I was in for a treat. I loved the more traditional natural history exhibits, of course: the […]
Read More American Museum of Natural HistoryWhere: 3rd Arrondissement, Paris While this is undeniably a lovely museum (with a very good roof terrace café, just by the by) my one major problem with it was that there just wasn’t that much…Picasso? It seems a bit of a strange thing to think and perhaps I’m being unfair, but on speaking to a […]
Read More Musée PicassoWhere: Churchill, Manitoba. (Yes, there it is, just tucked behind the church). This one room museum is crammed with objects – so many that it took me several visits to feel like I’d even made a dent in seeing them all. There are so many things to see and so many stories to uncover. Best […]
Read More Itsanitaq MuseumWhere: Winnipeg, Manitoba The Canadian Museum for Human Rights deals, unsurprisingly, with some very difficult topics. So it is testament to the design of the building, the interpretation of the objects, and the staff themselves, that the visitor leaves with a sense of hopefulness, rather than desperation. The architecture of the building leads the visitor […]
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