18/05/2025
Sharing some of the ones we visited recently
Pic 1: walking the streets of Berlin you come across these metal plaques embedded in the ground giving details from WW2: about people who lived there, were deported, murdered or escaped! The 1940s don’t seem far back in history!
Pics 2-3: the fabulous in New Delhi is currently hosting a retrospective of Gulam Sheikh and displaying an original Caravaggio: Maria Magdalene in Ecstacy.
Pic 4: The unmissable grandeur of National Gallery in London
Pic 5: The entry door to the Portrait Gallery in London
Pic 6: The Memorial COVID Wall along the Thames in London is an open-air reminder of what hit the world not so long ago!
Pics 7-8: The Serpentine North in London is hosting the first ever solo exhibition, outside India, of acclaimed Indian artist, Arpita Singh.
Pics 9-12: Back at the National Gallery, London; the famous Van Gogh and a look out at Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square and the Big Ben - all in one frame
Pic 13: The fun in Edinburgh.
Pics 14 -16: The in London ( V & A) with its exhibit room of a cast of MichelAngelo’s David and the display of the largest carpet from Iran.
Pic 17: The mammoth skeleton of the Blue Whale at the in London
Pic 18: The on display in Oxford
Pic 19: The grand in Oxford: a great place to spend an afternoon especially when it is raining.
We at covered a fair bit of ground in these last three months.
Grateful to be able to travel.
Which museum visit have you made recently?
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