We've canvassed the London Walks guides, asking them to nominate their desert island museum and we'll be posting their responses throughout the month.
As usual, you are more than welcome to join in! Get in touch via Facebook, or Twitter or via the usual email address.
Angela writes…
Best museums, hmm, well, of course the V
and A is hard to beat with so much there, something for everyone really, but it
is huge, you need days, weeks!
So really I would choose the Sir John Soane
Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Soane designed the original Bank of England
building and his house was his residence and art gallery. The Museum has been
restored in recent years and has almost a maze-like quality: you kind of stumble
across things like the domed and mirrored breakfast room. He used hidden light
too for the display of his collections which notably include the sequence of
paintings by William Hogarth of A Rake's Progress.
It's free and gets a mention, and details,
on the Legal and Illegal walk!
Visit the museum's website: www.soane.org
Here's how to find the Sir John Soane
Museum…
Angela
Angela is one special actress. "She's
so good it's almost impossible to compliment her", as Frederic Raphael,
the author of The Glittering Prizes, said of her performance in that
award-winning series. A similarly smitten Clive James said of her "Helena
in the Royal Shakespeare Company's All's Well That Ends Well: "You
couldn't ask to hear the words better spoken".
All three parts of our London Museums
Podcast…
POST UPDATED 25/3/16
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