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http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world....
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/british-museum...
A much better approach would be, instead of designed around me turning around, have it designed around the objects turning around?
The British Museum was the first museum I visited where It was all... "holy shit - museums can actually be super interesting!" ...that said, Imagine how boring this place would be if Britain hadn't colonized half the world at one point in time :)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-inva...
i would go into a museum just because i was walking by
on my walk from work i would stop in three different museums along the way just to look at a single piece in each
it is very freeing, critically and creatively, to be able to examine a single piece and then leave
there is often a pressure to 'get your monies worth' at stateside museums causing a numbing fatigue that informs the popular opinion wherein museums are boring or intended for 'someone else'
one of my favourite pieces in the british museum was a bust of apollo(o) where the sculpture had apollo tie the hairs from the side of his head into a square knot across his forehead
when i got into the street view i quickly walked the route i so often did in building
but lo, they must have moved, or removed?(i), the bust.. heartbreaking
if you are in london right now and have yet to have seen either the hunterian museum or the sloane museum(ii), they are across the street from each other, do so now
the hunterian is a surgeons museum, basically accumulated by a single individual, that boasts some 300 bottled specimens and a huge collection of medical instruments through the ages.. a textbook on mid 19th century lithotomy was eye opening
(o) https://www.ancientsculpturegallery.com/bust-head-of-apollo-...
(i) https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/asset-viewer/Aw...
(ii) https://www.google.com/maps/place/hunterian+museum+london/@5...