Skeletons and a Jar of Moles at the Grant Museum of Zoology
Adam is in Bloomsbury this week, at the Grant Museum of Zoology. It is part of University College London, it is one room, and that room is packed floor to ceiling with skeletons, jars and glass cases...It is one of the few university zoology museums left in the country, which mea ...Show more
Riding the Mail Rail Under London
Bex heads to the Postal Museum in Clerkenwell, and then underneath it. Mail Rail is a tiny railway built to carry post across London, running in tunnels below the streets since the 1920s, and you get to ride through the original tunnels on a train that runs on the same track...Up ...Show more
Sweet Wrappers and Cereal Boxes at the Museum of Brands
Adam is in Notting Hill this week, at a museum made almost entirely of the things most people throw away. The Museum of Brands has kept the packaging: cereal boxes, sweet wrappers, toys, comics and adverts going back to the Victorians...The heart of it is the Time Tunnel, a corri ...Show more
A Thousand Years of History at Oxford Castle and Prison
Adam visits Oxford Castle and Prison to step back in time and explore the city's past.There has been something standing on this spot for a thousand years, and a costumed guide walks you through the lot, from Viking raids and the Norman conquest to the beginnings of education in O ...Show more