#MuseumMonday: Museum Koenig Bonn
If you love natural history museums as much as I do, then you’re going to love this post! I was able to visit the Museum Koenig in Bonn during September while visiting the area for the 23rd European Congress of…
#MuseumMonday: Natural History Museum, Colchester
Nestled at the end of Colchester’s High Street, directly opposite Colchester Castle and set within the atmospheric fabric of a medieval church, the Natural History Museum in Colchester is a small but remarkably rich local museum. It tells a regional…
#MuseumMonday: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
As you’ve probably seen from my recent post about visiting the GIANTS exhibition, I’ve been to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and therefore it is time to feature it for #MuseumMonday. This museum sits in the heart of the…
#MuseumMonday: Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
It is hopefully clear by #MuseumMonday, that I love a good museum! The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, located in the Parc de la Villette in Paris’s 19ᵗʰ arrondissement, is one of Europe’s largest and most dynamic science museums….
#MuseumMonday: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
If you love museums that feel like friendly encyclopaedias of a place where local history, natural history, art and a surprisingly global collection rub shoulders in a handsome old building, then the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a quietly…
#MuseumMonday: Braintree District Museum
Despite the fact my mum lived in Braintree for over a decade, I never actually visited the local museum. At the time I wasn’t the biggest fan of local museums and was unaware of their significance. So, I decided to…
#MuseumMonday: Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée
One of the museums I have wanted to visit for a very long time now, is the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée. This is for a number of reasons, with the name one quite clearly discernible from the name…
#MuseumMonday: The Crab Museum
Regular readers of this blog and my #MuseumMonday feature will know that I love natural history. When visiting all the museums that I do, you tend to see the same information being presented in a very similar way. This can…
#MuseumMonday: Musée des Arts et Métiers
What do you do when you arrive in Paris and are waiting for your hotel check-in to open? You go to a museum of course! The Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers) is…
#MuseumMonday: Galerie de Géologie et de Minéralogie
One of my loves outside of herpetology is geology. It is a subject I studied at A-level and who doesn’t love collecting shiny rocks? My love for the subject is probably evident by my recent visit to the Lyme Regis…
