The travels of Brammers, part 4a

[blamebrampton]

The new Mediaeval galleries at the Victoria and Albert have broken my brain. I didn't even make it to the Renaissance. After three hours I was only 1/4 of the way through and had artefact overload. It is brilliant and beautifully presented and with SO MANY THINGS, and then wonderful things to actually DO for school children. I may have to write a nice letter to the curators. Just ... mindblowing ... Photos later, after I have made my way to Brixton. If not heard from again, the preceding sentence should explain my fate.

Oh, and yes, this does mean that I failed to hang out with Darwin today. Tomorrow! Or possibly Thursday ...

Comments

[noeon.livejournal.com]

*this is the verdegris of Noe's envy*

I haven't seen the V&A since the renovations. Lucky Brammers! I'm enjoying your travels vicariously.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

IT IS BRILL, Noe! You will love them when you see them, between this and the Ashmolean, I have been really spoiled. The V&A transition to the new space is more successful, though of course both have the British version of finished ;-)

[lisztful.livejournal.com]

I AM SO JEALOUS. I occasionally drool over the V&A's online database. It's an art historian's dream come true!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The new galleries are just spectacular, but they have that cathedral thing where your brain at some point stops being able to process individual items and just says 'So much cool stuff!!'

[treacle-tartlet.livejournal.com]

*is insanely jealous*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

HAS PHOTOS

[pingrid.livejournal.com]

Oh, so jealous! I suppose a one day roundtrip to London just to visit a museum isn't really economically or environmentally sound ... But it is very tempting!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh Pin ... you would LOVE IT!!

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

i could live in the victoria and albert for like a month and be happy.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Me too! We would be like the children in that book!

[deensey.livejournal.com]

I AM SO ENVIOUS!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I HAVE PHOTOS!

[deensey.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

The V&A is the world's supreme hoard of Stuff. It is the Mecca of all true materialists, ie anyone who loves things just for their thinginess. I go there every time I'm in London, though the last time I nearly had a panic attack when I thought they had closed their bookshop (it had merely moved, to my great relief). Their cafe is rather good too.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The cafe had good food, but the organisational ability of a handmade brick ;-)

I miss the old bookshop, it had more useful books! This one is shinier and prettier, but there are 15 books on Vivienne Westwood and not one on 16th century textiles in focus.

The new galleries are astonishing, because there is so much stuff set out in so big a space: it warps the mind trying to comprehend all the acquisitions!